Couples Therapy: why would anyone agree to televise their therapy sessions?
US televisionThe showrunners behind an honest, if uncomfortable, new series explain how they got four couples to allow cameras in the room with their therapist
Before the closed glass door of a therapist’s office in New York, a series of couples brace themselves for a slog. One man fidgets with a 3D puzzle; a woman, eyes closed, grips the chair arms. In the chairs, facing a Rorschach-esque painting, the couples seem aware of, if not reacting to, a discreetly installed camera – one woman’s attempt to tuck in her partner’s shirt tag, met with a shrug and rebuff, morphs into a shoulder rub.
El Salvador footballer Alfredo Pacheco shot dead | El Salvador
El Salvador This article is more than 8 years oldEl Salvador footballer Alfredo Pacheco shot deadThis article is more than 8 years oldNational side’s most capped player, who was banned for life for match-fixing, murdered in shooting at petrol station
A footballer who played for the El Salvador national side before being banned for life for match-fixing, has been murdered, the Salvadorian attorney general’s office has said.
Alfredo Pacheco, 33, was with a group of friends chatting in a petrol station on Sunday when an unknown assailant opened fire on the group.
Jimmy Carr condemned for abhorrent Holocaust joke about Roma people | Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr This article is more than 1 year oldJimmy Carr condemned for ‘abhorrent’ Holocaust joke about Roma peopleThis article is more than 1 year oldMemorial day charity ‘appalled’ at comedian’s remarks about Nazi killings in Netflix special
Anti-hate groups including the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Auschwitz Memorial and Hope Not Hate have condemned Jimmy Carr for his comments about the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in his Netflix special.
Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing | Books
A life in ...BooksInterviewNadeem Aslam: a life in writingMaya Jaggi'My writing has cost me almost everything. Sometimes friendship, love and never enough money'Nadeem Aslam was years into his second novel when the 11 September attacks took place. "Many writers said the books they were writing were now worthless," he recalls. Martin Amis, for one, felt his work in progress had been reduced to a "pitiable babble". But Aslam's saddened reaction to 9/11 was one of recognition.
San Francisco faces deadliest year for drug overdoses due to rise of fentanyl | San Francisco
A man holds a piece of foil containing fentanyl in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco on 21 June 2019. Photograph: Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesA man holds a piece of foil containing fentanyl in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco on 21 June 2019. Photograph: Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesSan Francisco This article is more than 1 month oldSan Francisco faces deadliest year for drug overdoses due to rise of fentanylThis article is more than 1 month oldExperts warn new and troubling trend is emerging: more victims are found to have consumed both fentanyl and methamphetamine
The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate review youd laugh if you werent already crying
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThe jailed misogynist blusters and rants his way through a noxious interview that says as much about the cancerous state of our society as it does about him
The bathos, at odd moments, is extraordinary. “If more men walked around the house with swords, most of the world’s problems would be fixed,” says the 35-year-old influencer and ex-kickboxing champion Andrew Tate, explaining to his interviewer, Matt Shea, why he has so many swords lying around.
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux review an expert dissection of sex, age and power
Annie ErnauxReviewThe Nobel winning French writer documents her affair with a much younger man
Annie Ernaux’s work is proof of how expertly autobiography can be done. Across more than 20 books, the Nobel prize winner seems to have subjected every sentence to the literary equivalent of a polygraph test. Is it true? Is it the simplest and most direct way to say what is meant? Is it persuasive? Among the admirable results of her method are memoirs that manage to be at once tender, loving, clear-eyed and unsparing, sentences that seem effortless even when we can easily imagine how painful they must have been to set down on the page.
10 of the best health and wellness retreats in Europe for 2023
Health and fitness holidaysNeed to rebalance your life? From sunny Greece to snowy Finland we pick the best restorative breaks
Back to nature, CroatiaThis four-night yoga and meditation retreat is led by experienced teacher Yogi Ashokananda. Accommodation overlooking Lake Begovac is in simple log cabins (called “monk pods”), or guests can camp. Daily yoga and meditation takes place on a platform with great views, and there are guided nature walks, lake swimming, vegetarian meals, optional massages and visits to a potter and Plitvice Lakes national park.
From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works | Video art
Starting with experimental film in the 60s, video art has revolutionised the art world. We celebrate the medium through its most groundbreaking pieces
Modern Toss on video art ... by Barbara London, Skye Sherwin & Oliver BascianoVideo art emerged in tandem with experimental film during the 1960s, as lively, open-ended alternatives away from the centre. Practitioners with contrarian agendas and backgrounds in disparate fields – music, performance, literature, visual art and the moving image – took to experimenting with audiovisual configurations.
Hear me out: why She's the Man isn't a bad movie
Hear me outMoviesContinuing our series of writers defending loathed films is a reappraisal of Amanda Bynes’s gender-swapping 2006 comedy
I’m sure you must be wondering why a movie in which there is a scene where Amanda Bynes, playing a girl pretending to be her brother, screws up her face to stridently declare in a cartoonishly male voice, “I am a dude. I am a hunky dude! I’m a badass hunky dude!