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Going once, going twice: tales from the auctions

Auctions come in all flavours, from the classic open English auctions, where everyone eagerly watches as bids fly higher and higher, to the secretive closed, first-and second-price auctions where you might feel like a spy deciphering top-secret bids. Then there are the Dutch auctions, which defy gravity by starting at

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Five British TV shows that are basically a degree in this country

Hot take: you cannot understand a country’s culture without watching its television. You can go to museums, pubs, read newspapers, talk to locals — but until you turn on national TV at prime time, you’re a tourist. British television is my anthropological empire. This is where you learn what

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What ANTM's new documentary actually reveals about media accountability

A new Netflix documentary about the iconic reality show is out — and it holds nothing back. Bullying, Tyra's meltdowns, contestants in tears recounting forced makeovers, questionable photoshoots (a model in a salad. In front of homeless people. Models with their skin painted to "change their nationality"

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They Ruined Wuthering Heights. It Was Spectacular.

Latex dresses, Charli XCX, and egg yolk as foreplay — Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights doesn't care what you think.

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Why Brooklyn Beckham Should Fire His PR Team

or hire one?

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Emily in Paris: a marketing recap nobody asked for.

but everybody needs.

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How And Just Like That almost buried the legacy of Sex and the City

Bidding farewell to the worst sequel in television history

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Material girl in a material world

Watching “The Materialists” and wondering: was that a romcom or a trap?

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How I became BeyHive

Beyoncé is in London.

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Lifestyle as Spectacle in With Love, Meghan

I watched the first episode of With Love, Meghan and I can’t stay silent. Because Meghan Markle has carefully crafted herself into a pop culture character. Literally.