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Why is ‘Wuthering Heights’ a ‘masterpiece’ so misunderstood?

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✨ Discover this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Heathcliff lives a life filled with torment and sadness that cannot be contained, but he inflicts that suffering on everyone around him and feels no remorse for doing so. By not correcting his mistakes, and letting him die without further punishment, O'Callaghan says, Brontë poses more complex questions to the reader, rather than giving him answers: What is love? Does the marriage system work? What are the limits of violence?This is part of the novel's complex legacy. “Popular culture tends to tell us that this…

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‘I was still black the next morning’: Halle Berry says Oscar win didn’t change her career | film

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Halle Berry,Oscars,Awards and prizes,Lupita Nyong'o,Race ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Halle Berry, the only black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, says her 2002 win "didn't necessarily change the course of my career."Speaking to The Cut's Monica Corcoran Harrell to promote new drama Crime 101, Perry said she expected Lee Daniels' Monster's Ball win would mean "there's going to be a script truck showing up outside my front door."However, Perry said the number of projects she has been offered has remained stable due to ongoing…

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The Good Society Review by Kate Beckett – Author of Soul Level Reviews | Community books

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Society books,Economics,Books,Business,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you wrote a successful book based on one big idea, what would you make the next book about? In 2009, Kate Beckett's book The Soul Level (co-authored with Richard Wilkinson) argued that inequality was the ultimate cause of almost all our social problems, from obesity and teenage pregnancy to violent crime; They claimed that more equal societies achieve better outcomes across the board. Although it was criticized - as are most Big Idea books - for overstating the case and…

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Mock Review – Takashi Miike Revisits the Infamous ‘Murder Guru’ Trial in Unflinching Courtroom Drama | film

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Japan,Takashi Miike,Film adaptations,Asia Pacific,Books,Culture,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TAkashi Miike, Japan's extreme maestro, now tackles a relatively staid and mainstream genre: the courtroom drama. But he can't help but bring to it his trademark shocks and imprecise metaphors. "Sham" is based on a real-life case from 2003 that shook Japanese media and public opinion. In the city of Fukuoka in southwestern Japan, elementary school teacher Seiichi Yabushita was accused of racially abusing and beating a student and pushing him to the brink of suicide on…

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Hidden details found in Anne Boleyn’s portrait served as ‘disproven magic’, historians say | Ownership

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Monarchy,Painting,Art,Kent,Exhibitions,Culture,UK news,Art and design 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anne Boleyn's "Rose" Heifer portrait is one of the most recognizable faces in history, with her "B" pendant, her French headdress, her dark eyes, and a red rose in her right hand. Now a secret that has been hidden for nearly 500 years under layers of paint has been discovered.Scientific analysis of a painting at Hever Castle, her childhood home in Kent, has uncovered evidence that an Elizabethan artist sought to create a “visual refutation” of claims that Henry…

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TV Tonight: Alice Roberts goes on a quest to find the Holy Grail | television

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Rafe Spall 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Lost Cup with Alice Roberts9 p.m., Sky HistoryAlice Roberts, Professor of Public Engagement in Science, tries to solve the mystery of the 2,000-year-old Holy Grail - and wonders if the relic was actually brought to Britain. Her huge adventure begins on the Isle of Wight, before making her way to Rosslyn Church in Scotland, which featured in the book and film The Da Vinci Code. On her quest, she investigates the legends of Joseph of Arimathea, King Arthur,…

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Birdwatching with Sean Bean: This week’s best podcasts | TV and radio

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Podcasts,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekGet birds with Sean PennOn the face of it, the RSPB's choice of Ned Stark as host for the new series of their podcast seems odd. But it turns out he's been a birder since childhood, and used to keep busy birdwatching between acting gigs. He's friendly and honest in his first podcast, chatting with fellow ornithologist Guy Garvey about spotting different species while working outdoors, learning about bird songs and the meditative joy of watching feathered creatures.…

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“Pure apocalypse”: a photographer’s journey through the Pantanal wildfires | Photography

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Photography,Brazil,World news,Americas ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toAlu de Almeida is a documentary photographer based in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2021, his photo essay Pantanal Ablaze won first place in the Environmental Stories category in the World Press Photo Contest. In 2022, he won the Eugene Smith Fellowship in Humanitarian Photography and the World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award for his work “Amazonian Dystopia,” which documents the exploitation of the world’s largest tropical forest.A tree turned to ashes in a burned pasture on a farm in São Francisco,…

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John Lithgow says he finds JK Rowling’s stance on trans rights ‘ridiculous and inexplicable’ | JK Rowling

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: JK Rowling,Books,Culture,John Lithgow,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: John Lithgow has described JK Rowling's views on transgender rights as "ridiculous and inexplicable", saying the backlash to his decision to play Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming Harry Potter series "disturbs me".Speaking on stage at the Rotterdam Film Festival after a screening of his latest film, Gemba, the 80-year-old actor was asked how he felt about Rowling's views. Rowling serves as executive producer of the upcoming series, which is produced by HBO and will be one of the most…

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Seasons Review – It’s a match for Ibsen and Peter Pan in the record of actors who have ruined their lives on and off stage | film

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Theatre,Poland,Culture,Europe,Stage,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THe plays that thing in this light-hearted Polish comedy-drama that captures its hero's marital complexities. Theater actor Marcin (Łukasz Simlat) plays Captain Hook in a production of Peter Pan. His unhappy wife Ola (Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza) announces that she is gone; Then, when their argument spills into the wings of the stage where she plays Tinkerbell, she reveals that she previously slept with someone else. Zimovit/Peter Pan (Dobromir Demicki) looks sheepish - before being lifted out of reach of the…

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