Culture

The cover art from 'Shy' shows the silhouette of a boy

Book review: Shy by Max Porter

Max Porter's latest novel explores the all-consuming nightmare of a young person morphing from an apparently happy child into an unpredictable and troubled teenager

An illustration shows a smart phone next to a dumb phone with conversation spilling out of them

Call me maybe

Love it or hate it, the voice note is here to stay. Can it ever be as intimate as the telephone?

An AI-generated image from Boris Eldagsen's controversial ongoing series, 'Pseudomnesia', which shows a black and white, hyper-realistic image of a man and a woman with their arms around each other

Robotic poetry

New AI tools are panicking the creative industries, but artists and poets have played with lifting and remixing for decades

'An Old Woman' - commonly known as 'The Ugly Duchess' - by Quinten Massys. The portrait depicts an old woman with exaggerated features, including a bulging forehead and bosom squeezed into an ill-fitting corset

Laughing at old ladies

With the "Ugly Duchess" at its heart, a new exhibition makes us consider the cruelty of satire

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