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For a dose of hope in hard times, romcoms still do the trick. Just don’t expect to see a remake of Pretty Woman any time soon

A young woman has the right to choose her own destiny, and Charlotte Heywood is set to finally set upon her own. Read our guide on how to watch Sanditon Season 3 from anywhere.

Creativity is easy to fake using ChatGPT and it's very cheap too – the challenge for creative workers is to find a way to economically value originality, writes Nicholas Agar

First editions are among the most sought-after

The BBC is about to screen yet another adaptation of Great Expectations – and enough is enough. It’s time they focused on new stories, rather than constantly making the same show

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.

The comic on hecklers, pre-show rituals, Jane Austen puns and her childhood heroes

Author showcases her dry wit in little-seen 1798 letter detailing her hats, household chores and chicken dinners

"It’s like a Jane Austen novel."

A bank failure wipes out the money available to its customers and freezes any capital that’s already in circulation. Depositors, borrowers and owners or shareholders all suffer as a result, as does wider economic activity and often the communities or business sectors that the banks serves.