Culture

Secrets, lies and the spy who invented Blue Nun

Why were the heads of the FBI and CIA calling a Manhattan wine salesman on the morning of 9/11?

20 mins ago • The New World

Sorry, but your Turkey Teeth have just gone out of fashion

A shiny set of evenly-spaced gnashers used to be a sign of wealth and status. Not any more

May 13 • Lucy Reade

Let us decant the tin! Forget fancy coffee, it’s all about tinned fish now

Sardines on toast used to be the dinner of last resort. Today, thanks in part to a man in a fez, they are a foodie obsession

May 13 • Matt Kelly

What Believe Me gets horribly right about the John Worboys fiasco

The ITV drama about a rapist cabbie paints a shocking picture of police misogyny

May 13 • Ros Taylor

The writer who met an angel disguised as an Albanian gangster

Boyhood author David Keenan is more like a soothsayer than a novelist

May 13 • The New World

Miles Davis is 100 – and this is why he still matters

A fearless, restless pioneer, the jazz legend was an imperfect man, but a musician of unique genius

May 13 • The New World

Soderbergh’s The Christophers underlines Hollywood’s genius problem

A film about a great painter needs great paintings to succeed

May 13 • John Bleasdale

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Local Difficulty (or ‘Party Like It’s 1979’)

May 13 • The New World

Sausages, beer and bread for £3: The Tbilisi cafe you can’t miss

The city is getting shinier, but a diner with no name remains one of its highlights

May 13 • The New World

Kokuho, the dazzling, savage Japanese epic you must not mis

Lee Sang-il’s remarkable film charts the cost of being a national treasure

May 9 • Matt d’Ancona

How Rosalía put on the best show of the year

Her blend of pop, opera, goth, techno and Catholicism, performed in over a dozen languages, requires a huge effort of will to hold it all together. She…

May 8 • Marie Le Conte

The city that made Mark Rothko

A 1950 visit to Florence inspired the artist’s greatest work. Now he’s back in the places that changed him

May 6 • The New World

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