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The pastel-toned social media trend is popular even with progressive women. But there’s a dark side to the oven-fresh bakes and homegrown veg

Caro Claire Burke’s badly written bestseller is the worst novel I’ve ever devoured

He is back to thrill and torment us with Red Sheet. Just don’t ask him about Trump

Artist Richard Dadd stabbed to death the father he loved – then spent 42 years producing remarkable work inside the hospital known as Bedlam

A definitive new history settles decades of myths about the ultimate cult band – but are some mysteries better left unresolved?

The director and critic returns with more episodes of his new epic The Story of Documentary Film

Tony, a new biopic of the celebrity chef’s early years, cuts through the sanctimony and myth

The White House’s chief medical adviser was not perfect during Covid, but science must resist his persecution by conspiracy-deranged Republicans

Baseball’s biggest star was the subject of racist insults at a time when black players were banned from the game

The strange journey of a word that dates back at least eight centuries

A generation of immigrants and their descendants chronicled an urban revolution

When a newspaper describes a recently dead person as ‘forthright’ or ‘eccentric’, here’s what they really mean

Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine

The worst response to her story is voyeurism. The second worst is pretending there is nothing to see

The 11-time Emmy-winning show is back. Unfortunately, too much of it feels like an own goal

We celebrate suffering in art - so why are we so keen to dismiss it in life?

The Netflix cartoon is profoundly reactionary, bombastic and mawkish

The bottled water industry is booming - but that says as much about anxiety as it does hydration

As traditional markers of middle-class stability crumble, the food hall provides a fantasy of a happier, richer country

The podcaster and digital marketing man has an unusual hiring style, during which a candidate will learn just as much about him as he does about them 

The Love Me Tender star on method acting, motherhood and refusing to fit in

Bands like Oasis are ducking interviews in favour of telling their own stories. Does that guarantee them an easy ride?

The Ghanaian-born collage artist uses newspaper pages and archival photos to connect stories from Britain, West Africa, and the Caribbean

Paying for 30 minutes of rampant destruction offers a rare chance to break plates, rules and a few social expectations too

A new book knows its stuff about the WWE star, but glosses over some of his worst moments

The former minister’s editors have done him no favours, and his lightweight summaries of wars would leave a GCSE history examiner unimpressed

Punishment Park, the brutal mock-doc by Brit Peter Watkins that anticipated our age of rage and recrimination

It was an observatory so successful that the Soviets tried to assassinate its head scientist. If the government closes it now, it will complete the KGB’s work