Sarah Carson
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Spain and the Hispanic World, Royal Academy, review: A doomed bid to straddle 4,000 years of Spanish history
This sprawling show feels more like a small museum has been installed in the Royal Academy than a coherent exhibition → Read More
Glastonbury 2022: Every celebrity we saw at the festival from Alexa Chung to Louis Theroux
The music and the partying is only part of the fun at Glastonbury → Read More
The rule of six is returning to England. I'm already sick with dread
Hallelujah, we can see our friends! But the rule of six turns socialising into a game of secrets, lies, and exclusions. Is it really worth it? → Read More
The Bold Type is a flawed feminist fairy tale, but I never want to watch anything else
Every woman I know is addicted to this series about three millennial best friends working at a New York fashion magazine. It is well-meaning, delightful and imperfect, and proves not all post-Girls TV needs to break ground to be good → Read More
Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, review: a stunning debut
The Irish essayist's first novel charts a woman's infatuation for a horrible man. It is precise, brutal, and introspective → Read More
I've moved home and reverted to an angry teenager
In lockdown, my mood swings are baffling - and worse than they were in adolescence → Read More
Netflix’s Marriage or Mortgage shows the price of everything and the value of nothing
This new series in which an estate agent and a wedding planner compete to persuade a couple to spend their life savings is a sinister and exploitative indictment of late-stage capitalism → Read More
BBC Three’s return is long overdue. Why did it take until Normal People to prove ‘youth’ TV is for everyone?
The BBC has announced that the channel will come back to TV next year after moving online-only in 2016. Perhaps broadcasters are beginning to understand that TV for young people does not deserve to be hidden → Read More
I've got terminal FOMO. I can't cope with life after lockdown
Sarah Carson is overwhelmed by plans - and the fear of missing out - since the government announced its road map on Monday → Read More
Help! I've finished Call My Agent! and my life is falling apart
As she pieces together the wreckage after another series finale, Sarah Carson finds that saying goodbye to a TV show is 10 times harder in lockdown → Read More
Madison Beer: 'I was not shielded from the dark side of the industry. I was thrown into the depths of it'
Madison Beer was 13 years old when she was discovered by Justin Bieber and propelled to stardom. Nearly nine years later, as she finally launches her debut album, she tells Sarah Carson how she was taught that her voice didn’t matter → Read More
Zara McDermott’s powerful film exposes the trauma of revenge porn. When will we stop judging victims?
The model, influencer and reality star has had intimate photos leaked twice without consent → Read More
Julien Baker: ‘The Church made me feel powerless. Even if I was Mother Theresa, I would still be gay’
Singer-songwriter Julien Baker talks to Sarah Carson about God, queerness, sobriety, and why the confessions on her exquisite third album Little Oblivions make her cringe → Read More
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler, review: wearying and supercilious
The debut novel from the hard-to-please literary critic is a satire of life online. Unfortunately, it is too clever for its own good → Read More
Can’t Get You Out of My Head, BBC iPlayer, review: Adam Curtis’s terrifying documentary is a masterpiece
This sprawling eight-hour documentary explores in urgent, exciting, expansive detail the meaning of power in post-war civilisation → Read More
MTV Cribs is back, but in 2020 there's no mystery left in the lives of the super-rich
With Instagram Stories and Keeping Up With the Kardashians, we no longer find fascination or intrigue in obscene properties and lavish wealth → Read More
ADHD will remain misunderstood until TV shows us characters who aren’t ‘lazy’, ‘naughty’ stereotypes
Culture's dated portrayal of ADHD as shorthand for 'lazy', 'stupid' or 'deviant' reinforces the stereotype that the condition is a problem for naughty boys → Read More
Netflix's The Social Dilemma wants me to delete social media. Never! I'm absolutely fine
Netflix's new docu-drama warns about the power of social media to transform — and destroy — society as we know it → Read More
Taylor Swift, Folklore, review: a dazzling, timeless surprise album
Swift yesterday announced a new album, created entirely in isolation. It abandons powerhouse pop in favour of gentle, sophisticated indie-folk and soundtracks every shade of empathy, sorrow, and shame → Read More
In an era of culture wars, Mrs America couldn’t be more timely — and Cate Blanchett is the perfect arch villain
This series, about Phyllis Schlafly and her fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in 1970s America, is an all-star period drama → Read More