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Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist

Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism

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The kindness of strangers: after a nasty bike accident in Turkey, a local dropped everything to care for me

I had no travel insurance and couldn’t walk. I was entirely dependent on him, but he never once made it awkward

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I was cycling in rural Turkey – I couldn’t …

‘They don’t want you to see the slave labor’: a new film goes inside Alabama’s prisons

New documentary The Alabama Solution exposes rampant state violence and inhumane conditions inside prisons

Floors streaked with blood, rat-infested cells, flooded hallways and routine beatings by offi…

‘Asura is the best Netflix drama in years’: this strikingly beautiful show will leave you salivating

Palme d’Or-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tale of four sisters is a stunningly shot, laugh-out-loud tale that’s hugely touching. How has it gone almost unnoticed?

Trust Netflix to make …

‘Africa is where I’m from’: why some Black Brazilians are moving to Benin

West African country is offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved persons taken from the continent, sparking huge interest in Brazil

João Diamante was gripped by a sense of belonging as he stepp…

‘It will devastate people’: Palestinians despair at looming Unrwa closure

Nobody knows what will happen when Israel’s ban on UN agency that provides vital services across Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank comes into force on 1 February

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