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The Handmaid’s Tale: When watercooler TV took a turn for the dread

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Helen Atwood's 1985 vision of dystopia in the United States - The Handmaid's Tale - sent chills through the blood....

The importance of being Jane – now more than ever

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On the 200th anniversary of her death, it is increasingly apparaent that for Jane Austen awkwardness is an equaliser which...

As they Reign, Tudor and Stuart queens are the new Mean Girls

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Another theocracy, another fertility crisis. Welcome to Reign. But it is no Handmaid's Tale. Tim Goodman wastes an hour of his...

Is this the most wickedly funny show to stream?

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The incomparable Julia Louis-Dreyfus has just won her third Emmy in a row for her tour de force role as...

An Ex-Bollywood actress challenges Indian stereotypes with her debut novel

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 Diksha Basu's The Windfall goes beyond the "exotic" image of her home country writes Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite for Elle. In Diksha...