Explore the latest virtual content from the Getty and listen to various intriguing podcasts on topics you may not have explored before.
Something a little bit different this month — we’ve collated a series of online events for you to consider that are being held online from the Getty Museum.
Michael-John Jennings, News UK’s archive specialist, on the projects that The Times archive has been working on this month
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar, was set to be a pillar of the establishment before dropping out to pursue country music. The singer’s greatest hits came from the years he spent as a struggling songwriter chronicling messy, itinerant lives.
‘Art has made my life magical at a time when I thought it would be unbearable,” Billy Connolly says. “My disease creeps up on me — every day it gets stranger and more different. I don’t know how I would have coped without drawing. It’s taken me out of the scene and put me somewhere else, where I can survey it from a different angle.”
We recently received The Times’ predictions of 2023 book prizewinners in our inbox, and they sound too good to miss. Have a read through potential reads, and make sure you order where you can and are inspired to so you have some good, relaxing times with a book to look forward to over the coming months.
Mariah Carey may be at the top of the Billboard charts once again, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that fatigue for her Christmas hit has kicked in as shop staff are, allegedly, hiding in stock rooms to avoid the hoary Christmas song and other over familiar jingles blasting out on the shop floor.
Look on Change.org and you will find at least three petitions to silence All I Want for Christmas is You, Carey’s 1994 classic. One refers to it as “the bane of shoppers, retail workers and pedestrians”. If all you want for Christmas is some indie minimalism we have a present for you courtesy of our resident DJ Dave and not a Mariah in site!
2022 has been a musical rush of Albums released by talent young and old. Harry Styles goes retro, Kendrick Lamar gets personal, Weyes Blood channels Joni Mitchell, Mumford gets real about his challenging life. No matter what your tastes, any music lover is going to find something brand new to cherish, checking out these picks of the 2022 releases.
Not everywhere is obsessed with the tropes of Father Christmas, turkey and a weapons-grade retail onslaught. Arguably nothing says more about a country than how it tackles the festive and new year period. In that spirit we’ve unearthed some of the most endearing (and downright bonkers) traditions from other countries. Here’s how you can experience them.
Our very own poet laureate has or will soon reach terminal velocity and speed away from us in his natty red sports car into permanent retirement. It has been such a pleasure to have John Adams back on the bench these last few months, alas, now he must go. However, he has agreed to write for JANZ from time to time. His first gift is this poem on the confusion of pronouns.
The Queen’s reading habits are a bit of a mystery beyond her love of the Racing Post, but truckloads of brilliant novels have been published over her 70-year reign. That’s why for a Jubilee special we asked a panel of our critics to whittle them down to their 50 favourite fiction titles from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, from 1952 up to today. The final list might surprise you: from A (Atonement) to Z (Zadie Smith's White Teeth). Here’s one from every decade:
