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Jana Berzelius is a steely public prosecutor with a mysterious past. Plus: Gabrielle, Yard Act and Jordan Rakei play their new hits. Here’s everything to watch this evening

Gorsuch ($250,000), Kavanaugh ($340,000), Jackson ($893,750).

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon. Fair enough. As Tosh says in his introduction, red-faced heterosexuals have spent centuries explaining away the…

The author and showrunner discusses turning her acclaimed 2019 novel into a Hulu miniseries.

“There are really four dimensions,” begins the narrator of The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’s classic Victorian adventure novel. “Three which we call the three planes of space and a fourth, time.” Humans cannot help but think of time as somehow different, perhaps because, as the narrator muses, we continuously…

R Derek Black unlearned white supremacist ideology, came out as transgender and wrote a memoir about their journey

Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

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In the book, characters exist, sort of, but they’re mostly artists, and they’re almost all named G