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Man Like Mobeen's Guz Khan: 'Citizen Khan reminds me of On the Buses'

BBC’s subversive new comedy avoids TV stereotypes and parodies racial profiling

Published: 9 Jan 2018

Man Like Mobeen's Guz Khan: 'Citizen Khan reminds me of On the Buses'
Shortcuts Hell freezes over: how the Church of Satan got cool

Published: 8 Jan 2018

Hell freezes over: how the Church of Satan got cool
Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess on Hard Sun: 'It felt like our bodies were going to combust'

Published: 4 Jan 2018

Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess on Hard Sun: 'It felt like our bodies were going to combust'

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review

An examination of the internet age suggests that we should cultivate the heresies of secrets and silence

Published: 30 Dec 2017

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review
Juliet Rylance on playing a moll in McMafia: 'The Russians taught us how to kiss'

Published: 29 Dec 2017

Juliet Rylance on playing a moll in McMafia: 'The Russians taught us how to kiss'

The unlikely life of Norris McWhirter, kids' TV star and the original Brexiter

Published: 28 Nov 2017

The unlikely life of Norris McWhirter, kids' TV star and the original Brexiter

Dead serious: what The Walking Dead needs to come back to life

As the eighth season of the ailing zombie show returns, what needs to be done to stave off the stench of creative inertia?

Published: 20 Oct 2017

Dead serious: what The Walking Dead needs to come back to life
Bohemian Rhapsody: will the Freddie Mercury biopic be a whitewash?

The Queen frontman’s Zanzibarian roots are often forgotten when discussing his life. But he didn’t hide from his Persian heritage – and neither should the movie

Published: 13 Oct 2017

Bohemian Rhapsody: will the Freddie Mercury biopic be a whitewash?

Hugh Hefner obituary

Playboy founder who sold – and lived – the dream of polygamous bachelorhood

Published: 28 Sep 2017

Hugh Hefner obituary

TV review The State review – Peter Kosminsky’s disillusionment dramas fail to satisfy

The writer-director’s four-parter could serve as an eloquent anti-recruitment video for Isis’s death cult, but ultimately didn’t get us into the mindset of his protagonists

Published: 24 Aug 2017

The State review – Peter Kosminsky’s disillusionment dramas fail to satisfy
Book of the day Humankind by Timothy Morton review – no more leftist defeatism, everything is connected

A bracing book from the fashionably wild thinker embraces anarchist and Buddhist ideas in an argument for solidarity with all that exists

Published: 23 Aug 2017

Humankind by Timothy Morton review – no more leftist defeatism, everything is connected
Adrian Dunbar on directing Homer on a Donegal beach – and his fears for Line of Duty

The actor best known as Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty is bringing Homer and Heaney to County Donegal. Our writer joins him for oysters as he takes his dogs for a windswept walk along the shore

Published: 18 Aug 2017

Adrian Dunbar on directing Homer on a Donegal beach – and his fears for Line of Duty
A life in ... Tom Phillips: two skulls, 50,000 postcards and a book that took 50 years to finish

He’s now in his 80s but the man who painted Beckett, illustrated Hell and made art out of beard trimmings, is still fired up. As his half-backwards opera Irma returns, we join the great experimentalist for a boozy lunch of artisanal bubble and squeak

Published: 11 Aug 2017

Tom Phillips: two skulls, 50,000 postcards and a book that took 50 years to finish

Jump the Shark When good TV goes bad: how Game of Thrones became a throng of dire old vice

When you tackle said contest, you win or you die – or you churn out scenes of sexual exploitation until you become creatively bankrupt

Published: 24 Jul 2017

When good TV goes bad: how Game of Thrones became a throng of dire old vice

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