When she fled Cuba, Ada Ferrer’s mother took only one of her two children. In her new memoir, Keeper of My Kin, Ferrer grapples with that decision’s reverberations across generations …
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‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling | Children and teenagers
Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of its kind anywhere …
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There are few people working in fashion whose opinion is held in such high regard as Amanda Harlech’s. The British consultant is known for her close relationship with John Galliano, …
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In August 1958, Esquire invited 58 jazz musicians to meet on a stoop in Harlem for a photo shoot. The resulting picture, now known as Harlem 1958, became legendary for …
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The group beat Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga, and also won ‘Song of the Summer’.
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This photo, from a series of pictures by two anonymous cousins, is entitled “The Music of Poverty and Violence.” The subject is playing an automatic weapon as if it were …
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Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’ | Books
You’ve written books, films, TV shows and plays. Which of your projects do fans most want to talk to you about? The one that people react to most, particularly women, …
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No one loves perfume quite like fakemink. The UK rapper has been name-checking scent references with almost the same intensity as he’s dropped singles over the past couple of years. …
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From nearly the beginning of the United States, Americans have used arches to make visual arguments about the nation’s ideals. When George Washington arrived in Philadelphia after his election as …
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The story of romance, food and colonialism is the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award.