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56 days ago

And the Academy award for most bashful Oscar contender goes to… | Tim Lewis

Whatever the buzz about their recent film performances, few actors will show they think their statuette is as good as won

The awards season for films ended last Sunday with the Oscars. Though I make a…

60 days ago

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the …

61 days ago

Trump has utterly changed the rules of engagement. World leaders must learn this – and quickly | Simon Tisdall

The world’s most admired democracy is being held hostage by a clique of far-right thugs. It would be a mistake to placate them

It’s not only about Donald Trump. It’s not just about saving Ukraine, or …

63 days ago

67 days ago

When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley – thrilling leaps of imagination

An impressive collection of poems – largely set in industrial wastelands and musing on time and distance – makes the mundane magical

The deluge of abstract thought in Paul Farley’s sixth collection, W…

69 days ago

‘I stripped away this caricature that I created’: Pamela Anderson on makeup, activism and gardening

The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi Klein

Pamela Anderson, makeup-free and be…

70 days ago

Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the Booker

David S…

74 days ago

75 days ago

The Inherited Mind by James Longman review – a moving memoir of mental illness in the family

The TV reporter’s struggles with depression and the suicide of his father, whose own father killed himself, prompt this incisive, highly personal investigation

James Longman is an English broadcast jo…

77 days ago

Manchester United likely to slash scouting network in next round of redundancies

  • Jim Ratcliffe is making proposed cuts of 200 staff
  • United currently employ up to 80 scouts globally

Manchester United’s department of about 80 scouts is facing considerable cuts as part of Sir Jim Ratc…

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