How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy
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How Taylor Swift’s Eras tour became a near-religious experience
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Gaudy or iconic? How leopard print took over
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12 of the best films to watch this December
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Matthew Bourne on his Swan Lake with male swans, the show that shook up the dance world
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Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world
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Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You went from modest 1990s hit to Christmas’s defining song
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The British politician who was caught faking his own death
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) When John Stonehouse’s clothes were found in a pile on Miami Beach on 20 November
Why the poignant Kes is Britain’s greatest coming-of-age story
Alamy First released in November 1969, Ken Loach’s social-realist tale of a boy who adopts a kestrel still resonates and
These five bizarre Surrealist artworks are not what they seem
Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco (Credit: Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco) Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly,