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Crossings: Laura Pannack’s award-winning images of South African youth – in pictures

The British visual artist and photographer Laura Pannack has been named the winner of the inaugural Tom Stoddart award for excellence 2025. A collaboration between Gost Books and the Ian Parry photojournalism grant , the award supports photographers engaged in long-form documentary work. South Africa has one of the world’s highest levels of social inequality and a rapidly growing youth population; Pannack’s project Crossings looks at the journey to and from school and its physical and psychological challenges for young people Crossings by Laura Pannack is available now Continue reading...

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Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon

The artist who was inspired by Swiss glaciers, the Vietnam war and her own divorce was sidelined from St Ives’ art history – but finally has a major retrospective at Tate At the centre of Tate St Ives’ newly opened retrospective of the British modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, her monumental altar-piece Glacier (Blue Cave) pulls viewers into its frozen tendons of turquoise and white. Its mouth is agape and the blue slit of its eye casts downwards to the rest of its body. The glacier feels human: a vivisection of rock, ice and snow that brings to mind the fragmented facial features of Picasso’

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One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again

Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformed There’s a startling moment in this BBC refugee documentary when Syrian mother Nisreen – in the apparently miserable situation of hiking across the Balkans towards Germany, four kids in tow – suddenly explodes with joy. “This is the best holiday I’ve ever had! It’s an amazing adventure. Now I have the chance to walk in the rain – I love it!” Shunted off early into an arranged marriage, never having left Syria until forced out of Aleppo by the civil war, for Nisreen this running jump i

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Ashanti: ‘I’ve had a bodysuit snap off on stage. That was not my coolest moment’

Before her Australian tour, the Grammy-winner talks about her marriage to Nelly, fans rushing the stage and her secret skill Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Your debut album, Ashanti, turns 25 next year and you’re in the process of re-recording it. How do you feel about that album now? We are re-recording it so I will own my masters. Sonically, it will be a lot clearer. It was 25 years ago so it’ll sound a little more new, obviously, but with the same classic vibe. I’m very excited. What I’ve learned is that I’m just really grateful to have written records that stand the test of ti

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Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’

‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to Peru, we threw in a T rex!’ I joined Core Design in the summer of 1994 and met Toby Gard, who showed me his concept sketches for Tomb Raider. He’d already come up with the title and drawn a mock-up box cover with a woman holding two pistols. Continue reading...

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The duchess charged with treason and witchcraft

Was 15th-Century 'royal witch' Eleanor Cobham a satanist or a political pawn?

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Why the real Christopher Robin resented Pooh Bear

AA Milne's son told the BBC that he took to "avoiding the subject"

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12 of the best TV shows to watch this November

From a drama about Muhammad Ali's early years to a Blade Runner spin-off

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The Parisian women who lived and dressed as men

10 remarkable images of the 19th-Century women who bravely flouted the law

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The deathly book that caused a prize controversy

Emma Cline's assisted-dying novel Switzy was excluded from the Booker Prize

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Why Frankenstein is so misunderstood

How Mary Shelley's novel's phenomenal success overshadowed its message

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What these rotund remakes of masterpieces tell us

Colombian artist Fernando Botero's paintings reimagine historic European art

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The Russian stray dog that beat humans into orbit

In 1957, Soviet scientists sent Laika into space, making her a tragic hero

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In the '70s and '80s, 'SCTV' spoke directly to me

A new documentary looks back on the Canadian sketch show Second City Television . If SNL was a smirking upperclassman in a private-school uniform, SCTV was a lovable dirtbag in a denim jacket and jeans.

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Jack Nicholson was scary. But Shelley Duvall delivered the real horror in 'The Shining'

Just in time for Halloween, NPR correspondent Brian Mann caught 'The Shining' on the big screen — and it changed how he understood the movie.

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'Fear' finale: What have we learned?

Weekend Edition Sunday's Ayesha Rascoe joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about horror's big moment and why people just love to be scared.

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Drone photo award winners: Far-out landscapes. Ship recycling. Rugs, rugs, rugs!

The Siena Drone Photo Awards for 2026 offer breathtaking bird's-eye views of our planet, revealing landscapes, livelihoods and human stories often invisible from the ground.

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'Wait Wait' for October 31, 2026: With Not My Job guest John Turturro

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest John Turturro and panelists Hari Kondabolu, Paula Poundstone, and Faith Salie

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Sunday Puzzle: All over the place

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WESA listener Deborah Freedman.

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At a Moscow movie screening, Anthony Bourdain's Russian fixer remembers the late chef

Zamir Gotta, Anthony Bourdain's longtime fixer in Russia, remembers working with and becoming friends with the late chef.

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John Turturro says he likes trying new things (even pickpocketing)

Lifting wallets was part of Turturro's training for the film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. In it, he plays a small-time thief who's also the primary caretaker for his ailing wife.

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Best of Both Worlds: 6 Amazing Genre-Blending Graphic Novels

You won't want to set down these genre-blending graphic novels, packed with unique settings and compelling storylines.

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10 New Romance Books to Read in November 2026

The best new romance books out in November 2026 include cozy romantasy, mafia romance, and a new witchy series from Nora Roberts.

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Thrillers About Female Rage

Janasha Prabhu, author of Monster in the Mirror, recommends three of her favorite thrillers about female rage.

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