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Throughout the biography there is a whiff of dark comedy, as Caligula is cast as the ultimate demented caesar, corrupted absolutely by his absolute power and driven into depravity. Born of a ...

Marrying John Lennon brought Yoko Ono a dizzying degree of reflected fame. But her life story is nervy, compelling and shockingly sad both with and without him. Ono’s wealthy but emotionally ...

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David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko,” digs deeply into the artist’s life and offers a welcome reassessment of her place in cultural history. A riotous oral history by Richard Bienstock and ...

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When Fufu died last year, the dog was given four days of Buddhist funeral rites. Vajiralongkorn’s Caligula-style behaviour is anathema to the core royalist factions which dominate Thai politics and ...