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1. The “Scream” franchise adds another self-referential sequel
2. Jessamine Chan’s gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
3. Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
5. In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside
6. On the 50th anniversary of “Ways of Seeing” and “G.”
7. The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
8. “Aftermath” is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
9. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
10. After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
11. A climber’s story evokes classic mountaineering literature
12. An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
13. Carl Bernstein’s memoir traces his path to Watergate
14. “Trading Places” and the challenge of troubling art of the past
15. David Bowie delved into his own past on “Toy”
16. Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
17. What is The Economist’s word of the year for 2021?
18. Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
19. A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
20. Joan Didion’s radical curiosity
21. Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
22. The best podcasts of 2021
23. After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
25. On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
26. A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh’s liberation war
27. The best television shows of 2021
28. In 2021 our writers considered technology, meritocracy and the trans debate
29. The best books of 2021
30. Life and death in a Christmas tree
31. “Don’t Look Up”, Adam McKay’s political farce, is bleakly realistic
32. An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
33. The best albums of 2021
34. The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins’ Ear
35. Sir Paul McCartney’s memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
36. A biographer explores Greta Garbo’s glamour and vacuity
37. A war correspondent’s intimate portrait of an embattled minority
38. An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
39. Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
40. Sean Baker’s films bring sex work into the light
41. The best films of 2021
42. A new English version of “The Arabian Nights” is the first by a woman
43. Environments can affect language—just not how you think
44. A new book explains the tragic failure of Boeing’s 737 MAX
45. In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
46. The trouble with reality in fiction
47. How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
48. Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
49. How the seven-day week came to rule the world
50. The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
51. Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
52. Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
53. An inspiring, if frustrating, portrayal of the Williams sisters’ coach and dad
54. Sung Tieu unpacks “Havana syndrome” in her latest work
55. A new book celebrates Annie Leibovitz’s fashion photography
56. A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
57. Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
58. A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
59. Two books assess the fight against global corruption
60. Starry new productions show “Macbeth” is the tragedy for our times
61. A new psychological history of the cold war
62. Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
63. “Spencer”, Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
64. A palatial museum of Edvard Munch’s art opens in Oslo
65. BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
66. After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
67. The four women who shook up philosophy
68. A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
69. ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with “Voyage”
70. George Orwell’s horticultural sensibilities
71. “The Harder They Fall” offers a new take on the Old West
72. “Making Nice” is a gratifying satire of the internet age
73. The Van Gogh Museum showcases a rejected early masterpiece
74. The success of “Succession” proves the virtue of hateful characters
75. Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
76. How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
77. Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
78. Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
79. A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
80. A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
81. Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
82. Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
83. A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry
84. A short history of Hollywood’s poison-pen letters to itself
85. A “Divine Comedy” ballet, 700 years after Dante’s death
86. Why you have an accent in a foreign language
87. A posthumous novel from John le Carre
88. Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
89. Good evening, Ms Bond. We’ve been expecting you
90. A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
91. Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
92. Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
93. An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it’s done
94. Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
95. How an English miner’s daughter rose to work in the White House
96. The New York Public Library mines its archive of 56m objects
97. Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
98. Colm Toibin’s new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
99. A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
100. A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
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