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Actress Christina Ricci shares insights on balancing career and motherhood, highlighting the importance of support and finding a work-life balance in the e...

From Medusa to Circe, novelists have scored hits with feminist reimaginings of Greek myths and historical figures. But Swiss-born painter Angelica Kauffman beat them to it – by 250 years

The controversy over Hasan Minhaj’s onstage storytelling was a sign of the shifting demands placed on standup comics

On reflection, David Owen was probably too “leading man handsome” to help the SDP break the mould of British politics. That’s right, I’ve been re-watching old BBC election night broadcasts again. This time, it’s back to the Seventies and Eighties for Ted Heath’s miscalculation, Jim Callaghan’s sunny (albeit misplaced) optimism…

Newspapers and politicians discuss general’s skin tone, saying actor’s casting in the role created ‘a historical error’

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Islam Issa’s Alexandria: The City that Changed the World is a history of Egypt’s second city.

In his ambitious and richly orchestrated 2022 opera, the American composer makes Shakespeare his own, with a star cast to match