Culture
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Art
Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it
12 minutes
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Teaching and learning
Ronald grew up in a New York City library. It was as strange and wondrous as it sounds
3 minutes
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Stories and literature
The honesty of pornography
Often vilified as a weapon of male supremacy, pornography in fact has much to tell us about ourselves and our culture
Kathleen Lubey
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The ancient world
Wanderlust of the ancients
The Roman Empire enabled an early version of globalisation that offered travellers adventure, novelty and opportunity
Fabio Fernandes
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Subcultures
The cast of ‘misfit toys’ who keep life on an idyllic tourist island afloat
7 minutes
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Stories and literature
Was Colin Wilson a fascist?
For thousands of fans, he made philosophy thrillingly relevant. Yet there is a deep unsavoury undercurrent to his worldview
Jules Evans
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Biography and memoir
What Akiko saw at the centre of the Hiroshima blast, and the indelible mark it left
7 minutes
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Design and fashion
From sheep to sea – an ode to the iconic sweater that warms Cornish sailors
4 minutes
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Art
The revolutionary artist who propelled the Black Panther movement with imagery
8 minutes
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Anthropology
Keeping the score
The gifts we exchange are both generous and yet fraught with social rules and obligations. Marcel Mauss explained why
Gili Kliger
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History of ideas
The invention of free love
Percy Shelley thought romantic love freed men and women from the strictures of monogamy, but did it free them equally?
Neil McArthur
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Technology and the self
One woman prepares for the risky solitude of Georgia O’Keeffe’s American West
8 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
What does art do?
Good art, laced with irony, ambiguity and suspense, is not obviously political. That’s what makes it politically interesting
Vid Simoniti
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Food and drink
From set-up to close, a day at the farmers market is a whirlwind sensory feast
10 minutes
essay
Palaeontology
A dinosaur is a story
As Brontosaurus tells us, in science as in fiction, the stories we tell to understand the world are always being revised
Nathaniel Goldberg & Chris Gavaler
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Dance and theatre
From calluses to burnt shoes, the elegance of ballet is built from the ground up
4 minutes
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Religion
The imperative betrayal
The mystery of why Judas forsook Jesus goes to the heart of Christianity. A newly translated gospel offers a new view
David Brakke
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Stories and literature
Leave them alone
Parenting advice from D H Lawrence: don’t smother your children with love. They are more sagacious than you think
Lara Feigel
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Biology
Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food – and sometimes enrich it
22 minutes
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Subcultures
The utopian machine
For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination
Susanna Crossman
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Cities
Inside the unique London community built by residents to defy housing discrimination
21 minutes
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Subcultures
Life in the buff
Naturists believed nudity was profoundly beneficial to society. In order to spread the message, they took to photography
Annebella Pollen
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Film and visual culture
With human help, AIs are generating a new aesthetics. The results are trippy
9 minutes
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Sports and games
Bodies, bikes and groovy music propel this stylish classic film from 1965
17 minutes