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Review: How HBO's dreary 'Gilded Age' fails the tumultuous era it depicts

In HBO's "The Gilded Age," Julian "Downton Abbey" Fellowes transfers his interest in rich people and the people who serve them from early 20th-century England to late 19th-century New York. Once again, it's an upstairs-downstairs, extravagantly dressed soap opera set against a background of social change, as a self-styled aristocracy…

Los Angeles Times · Jan 25, 2022

White on White by Ayşegül Savaş review – storytelling at a chilly remove

A nameless student listens to her landlady’s embittered life story in a spare, oddly enthralling novel indebted to Rachel Cusk’s Outline

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2022

Pregnant teen wants to name twins she's giving up but adopting couple hate her choices

A 15-year-old girl who is giving up her newborn twins for adoption has insisted she be allowed to name them Walter and Agnes. But their soon-to-be legal mum thinks the names are "outdated" and wants to call them Ellie or Evan, she told Reddit

Daily Mirror · Jan 24, 2022