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With an aesthetic dependent on novelty and spectacle, and a structure that’s both disjointed and drawn-out, Eurovision – for some – cannot fail to fail. In its “failed seriousness” (the phrase writer Susan Sontag used to describe “camp”), the song contest has all the exaggerated expressiveness that audiences associate with…

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

Lisa Rinna leaving the franchise sparked a wave of communication from concerned friends, while asking which version someone prefers is the perfect ice-breaker. Welcome to Real Housewives obsession

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive "The Metamorphosis" for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web.

In theater, camp can equal freedom as an actor. I think it can offer the same in your holiday kitchen

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

A Chris Killip and Graham Smith retrospective from the 70s and 80s captures an absence of hope still felt today

At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time

Artist whose popular paintings of wide-eyed children were promoted by her husband as his own work