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

After a tired and desperate 2023 with our baby, finally my family found the deep bliss of sleep, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Altman dropped out of Stanford, started a "failed" app, then turned it into a gig running Silicon Valley's top startup incubator.

Publishers and free speech advocates demanded the award-winning author’s release after he was separated from his family and questioned by Israeli military

This isn’t the only lawsuit Sam Altman is facing; he was sued by Elon Musk in 2024 for breaching his fiduciary responsibility

Ridley Scott gives his blunt response to critics pointing out Napoleon’s inaccuracies.

What happens when a fact-checking story ignores the facts?

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Published in the white heat of the #MeToo moment, Kristen Roupenian’s viral ‘New Yorker’ short story about a bad date and dodgy sexual dynamics captured the zeitgeist, writes Jessie Thompson. This week, a film adaptation arrives in cinemas – what will audiences make of this tale of terrible sex, six…