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With large expressive eyes and a big, slightly bucktoothed smile, she was few people’s idea of a conventionally beautiful Hollywood star. But Shelley Duvall, who died on July 11 at the age of 75, enjoyed a hugely successful career in film, and later as a producer of children’s television. For…

Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance

A story about a young man who just wants to legally work, if only the system would let him.

Julio Torres’s whimsical comedy shows promise in its portrayal of the Kafka-esque maze of the US immigration system, but his ideas don’t always come together

HoYoverse announced the Honkai Star Rail 1.6 banners in the RPG’s latest livestream along with plenty about what to expect in the next update

The festive spirit is here, and it looks terrifying

John le Carré, whose birth name was David Cornwell, died in 2020

Authors from Jonathan Swift to NoViolet Bulawayo show how much can be done with what might sound a narrow form – and how much fun can be had with it

My relationship with sleep is fraught. For me, the journey towards sleep is a precarious one, relying on a shifting portfolio of mental states, and an irritating need for silence.

Letters: Geoff Renshaw has realised that the chatbot can’t say ‘I don’t know’, Tom Brown thinks it has been reading too much Kafka

WHEN does a book begin? When you catch a glimpse of its cover? When you lift it off the shelf? When you read the blurb on the back? When you count…