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Director Martin Scorsese on the red carpet during a photocall for the premiere of The Irishman at la Cinematheque in Paris on October 17th, 2019. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images
Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive

Ballots for the coming Academy Awards are still being tabulated but it already seems clear – this will not be Netflix’s year. The streaming giant wil(...)

Stephen King: ‘so backward and ignorant you want to go back to bed’? Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty
Oscars 2020: Stephen King faces backlash over diversity comments
  • Film
  • January 15, 2020, 10:07

In yet another year of Oscar nominations that saw a paucity of recognition for women and artists of colour, the response has been almost exhausted – a(...)

Carl Cederström photographed by Eva Dahlin/OR Books
How to be a good man: what I learned from a month reading feminist classics
  • Books
  • October 2, 2018, 10:23

“He covered my mouth with his hand and introduced his penis. I thought my last hour had arrived. I had the feeling my stomach was turning.” These are(...)

Roseanne Barr: her show Rosanne has been axed after she posted racist tweets. Photograph: Brinson+Banks/The New York Times
Roseanne Barr show axed over racist slur

ABC television network in the US has cancelled comedian Roseanne Barr’s show after she posted a racist tweet comparing a former Obama adviser to an ap(...)

Troll with it: Donald Trump and Kanye West. File photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters
Kanye West’s slavery remarks: free thinker or racist troll?

“Once again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas,” tweeted Kanye on Wednesday. Future cultural historians, picking their way through the vast(...)

Polarised sisters: Roseanne Barr and Laurie Metcalfe in ‘Roseanne’
Donald Clarke: ‘Roseanne’ is the latest cudgel in the brutal culture wars

The last week would been have quieter if the 10th series of Roseanne had been useless. After all, no op-ed pages worried about that brain-withering Ma(...)

Championing women writers, broadening the mind

Last year the writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh created a series of hand-drawn bookmarks of some of her female literary heroes. Among them were G(...)