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HISTORICAL FACTS: Susan sontag - The Untold Story

Periodic Bitch: PMDD may be a ‘life curse’, but this memoir reveals its stigma as the real horror

“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” writes Susan Sontag in the opening of her landmark book Illness as Metaphor. Although we prefer to use only our “good passports”, she says, sooner or later each of us…

The Conversation

Greta Thunberg and Gary Lineker sign letter defending Southbank Centre chair

Misan Harriman accused of promoting Golders Green attack ‘conspiracies’ and comparing Reform voters to Nazis

The Guardian - UK

The Wonderful World that Almost Was by Andrew Durbin review – the queer artists who shaped New York cool

A tender but unflinching account of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, forgotten stars of the 1960s scene

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A love letter to the contact sheet, and what 5,700 of them reveal about one of photography's most essential names

Before Lightroom, there was the contact sheet. Peter Hujar's archive offers a masterclass in editing your own work

Digital Camera World

The Guardian view on the future of cinema: gen Z is falling in love with the big screen

Editorial: Film is in a state of existential crisis. But a new generation of cinephiles might save it from the streaming giants

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The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney has a camp hit on her hands

3/5 Paul Feig nods to ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Vertigo’ in this pulpy adaptation of the Freida McFadden bestseller, which has a secret weapon in the form of a quite brilliant Amanda Seyfried

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Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum review – a grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity

From cruel pictures of elderly widows to a shocking image of motherhood, the American photographer’s genius is on full display in a show that finds ugliness all around her

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Why Annie Leibovitz is still asking what women look like

The legendary portrait photographer revisits a landmark 90s series, with a new book and a London talk.

Digital Camera World

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside

The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdown

The Guardian - UK

More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel

From the Women’s prize to the bestseller lists, authors are pushing the boundaries of how explicit the novel can be – and readers can’t get enough

The Guardian - UK

Blind date: ‘He told me off for looking at my phone’

Tope, 27, a doctor, meets Eden, 28, a software engineer

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White obituary

One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet

The Guardian - UK

The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likeable debut with aimless charm

The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for love

The Guardian - UK

Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – visions of a vanished world

The American photographer Peter Hujar, who died of Aids complications in 1987, chronicles New York’s 70s and 80s gay scene – and much else besides – in this haunting retrospective

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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. The very activity of taking photographs is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation exacerbated by travel"

Art of Seeing #81. Benedict Brain examines the tourist gaze and explores why we take ‘travel’ photographs with the help of Susan Sontag

The Guardian - UK

Covid was supposed to kill cinema – but did lockdown and gen Z save cinephilia?

Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience

The Guardian - US

Photos of myself make me shudder in horror. Does that mean I’m hideous?

Obsessing over pictures of yourself isn’t necessarily superficial. It’s almost inevitable, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino

The Guardian - UK

‘Sex writing feels less cringe now’: are we entering a new era of erotic literature?

As the Erotic Review is joined by dating app Feeld’s literary magazine and Gillian Anderson’s anthology of women’s fantasies, there seems to be a fresh appetite for writing about desire

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Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell review – the superspreader returns

The acclaimed popular science writer follows up his highly influential study of social contagion

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Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book

A party supported by pals who made it through rush hour rain was appropriate for an anthology celebrating female friendship

The Guardian - UK

Audiobook of the week: On Women by Susan Sontag – clear-eyed wisdom

A polemical collection of the writer’s 70s journalism on feminism read by the voice actor Laurel Lefkow is just as relevant today

Evening Standard

Why Gen Z love city breaks in Sarajevo

Between the cuisine, museums and great humoured locals, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital is a place full of stories, says Suzanne Moore

The Conversation

Arcadian: Nicolas Cage’s post-apocalyptic pastoral is a beautiful mess

In her 1965 essay, The Imagination of Disaster, critic Susan Sontag wrote that: “The science fiction film … is concerned with the aesthetics of destruction, with the peculiar beauties to be found in wreaking havoc, making a mess.” There is certainly beauty in director Benjamin Brewer’s new movie, Arcadian –…

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All Eyes on Rafah: sharing images of war comes with a moral responsibility. What can we make of this AI-generated anomaly?

Over the past few days, one image has been shared at least 45 million times on Instagram. It shows an aerial landscape with hundreds of thousands of tents, pitched in rows, on red earth. In the centre, the tents align to form the slogan “All Eyes on Rafah”.

The Guardian - UK

‘He was a born member of the underground’: how Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

He only published one book – and it was hardly noticed. Now his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, the photographer’s favourite subjects recall his genius

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