They make an intriguing pair of rivals: he in a brown suit and pork pie hat, she in a gingham dress and matching hair bow. His domain is a vast scientific research facility in New Mexico; hers is ...

I’ve been meaning to get back into reading for a while, but college has instilled in me an over-reliance on external structure to support any and all activities I engage in. So I decided to find ...

It doesn't bring us joy," Ms Scoullar said. Feeling that she was losing her empathy towards people, she delved into the escapism of writing, creating worlds where she could control the behaviour ...

Are we turning to television for escapism or for provocative examinations of The Way We Live Now? I’m sure not everyone watching these shows thinks of them in this way — the fact that every ...

You can check out at any time. More info One impressed critic praised a hidden Netflix gem, declaring it "science-fiction escapism at its very best". ‘The Wandering Earth’, a lesser-known ...

It's in development for PC. So what is it? As the team at describes it, "Equinox is an open-world MMORPG for fans of murder mysteries, cozy escapism, and horses! Saddle up and charge into a ...

Artist Alex Chinneck has designed A Week at the Knees, a rippling installation that looks like a historic Georgian brick house sitting down, for Clerkenwell Design Week in London. Located in ...

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Janeites still lament the loss of her unpublished words. Of the thousands of rumoured letters to Austen’s friends and family once in existence ...

It’s pure escapism: it doesn’t make you think and you’ll see the jokes coming before they land. If that’s what you need, then this gaggle of spies and their luckless path-crossers will ...

What is successful right-wing art? I posed that question to Jonathan Keeperman, who runs the far-right publisher Passage Press, on my podcast a couple of weeks ago, and you can tell that it’s a ...