Published on 05/05/2026 – 8:28 GMT+2 The annual Met Gala always grabs the headlines as fashion’s great, good, bad and ugly mix in an eye-popping spectacle of haute couture and viral moments. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This year’s event was perhaps overshadowed however by an absence of stars who opted to stay away in protest at its…
Stars walk the carpet on fashion’s biggest night of the year Chloe Mac Donnell Hello and welcome to the Met Gala live blog 2026! Chloe from the Guardian’s fashion desk here. My colleague Lauren and I are here to bring you all the best looks, the possible questionable looks and of course, what everyone is…
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In an email interview, she confessed the Marilynne Robinson-sized hole in her reading, and the book her high school boyfriend would be glad she got to. SCOTT HELLER What’s the last great book you read? I finally read “Bel Canto” and I just — ugh! — luxuriated in it. What a pleasure. What books are…
Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief to read a biography where she comes across, instead, as more grounded, steady, sane. Deborah Lutz, whose 2015 book The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects made…
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Amid the professional-grade networking at Tammy Haddad’s Garden Brunch in Georgetown on Saturday, hours before the kickoff of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a television anchor was joking about how savage President Trump might be toward the news media in his speech later that night. “Twenty-four hours from now,” the anchor said, gesturing at…
The night began with the image of Ryan Castro on screen singing “SENDÉ” [the intro to the album of the same name, inspired by the classic “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)” by Dawn Penn] from inside a National Police helicopter, before “REBECCA” started playing and a double appeared, simulating[the artist walking on the…
