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Camera obscura … Michelangelo Antonioni during the filming of L'Avventura (1960). Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis This is the centenary year of Michelangelo Antonioni. He was born on 29…

Practically every day, cars stop in front of our house and people get out to take pictures of it, and of usme and my wife and…

At the height of his addiction Ryan van Cleave had little time for his real life. World of Warcraft, a video game, had crowded out everything: his wife and children, his job as a university English professor. Before classes, or late at night while his family slept, he would squeeze in time at the computer. He would often eat meals at the computer – microwave burritos, energy drinks, foods that required only one hand, leaving the other free to work the keyboard and mouse.

The womenLet me preface this by saying I grew up in a well-to-do family. I had more opportunity andprivilege than most, but the divorce of myparents in my first year of university ultimately…

At 9:31pm on 16 October 2008 a message appeared on the virulently anti-Muslim website Gates of Vienna. Under the user name Year2183, a reference to a manifesto he was writing, Anders Behring Breivik appears exasperated that his fellow far-right bloggers are too accommodating to Europe's Muslims. Responding to Fjordman, the anonymous Norwegian "counterjihad" blogger, Breivik insists that only the forced deportation of Muslims will suffice. His stance, he realises, has become too extreme even for the anti-multicultural blogosphere.

Elmer Pratt, the prominent Black Panther known by his nom de guerre, Geronimo ji-Jaga, died at 63 on June 2 in Tanzania. He had served 27 years in prison in Los Angeles for murder, the first…

The comic-book writer Alan Moore is not usually surprised when his creations find a life for themselves away from the printed page. Strips he penned in the 1980s and 90s have been fed through the…

Three decades ago, an impoverished young actor named Antonio Banderas was sitting with friends outside Madrid's National theatre when a curious figure happened by. The new arrival sported…

We spend a lot of time reading very dense, very long magazine pieces. Weve become very good friends with the pillar near the magazine racks at Barnes Noble. Well, less so recently.…