This week: the slow murder of The Washington Post, a family lost in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years, Muslims frozen out of the banking system, plus Starman, Lucy Letby, and the ex-gay movement's poster boy.
This week: Bloomberg reveals how Mojtaba Khamenei built a £100 million property empire while Iran buckles under sanctions. Plus: tech's pivot to defense, a documentary about press freedom, and more.
This week: America's gambling epidemic in Harper's, Jon Lee Anderson on Venezuela's uncertain future, the AI web eating itself, plus Dwayne Johnson's Oscar-nominated transformation, Mel Brooks at 99, and three podcasts you need to hear.
This week: Sam Knight's brilliant New Yorker deep dive on WhatsApp's global takeover, a philosophical takedown of AI consciousness hype, plus A24's raw motherhood fever dream, Victorian bare-knuckle boxing, and three must-watch documentaries.
This week: Prince Andrew's £15m mansion sale to a Kazakh oligarch, a CIA traitor's death, Stephen Graham's Victorian boxing drama returns, and our investigation into Venezuela's missing billions.
This week's picks share a common thread: people pursuing truth in systems designed to obscure it. From veterans fighting for healthcare to drug kingpins in Dubai, from AI chatbots replacing doctors to comedy legends navigating show business.
Welcome to Brazen Weekender, your shortcut to great new TV, films, docs, and articles. From WWII dramas to steampunk adventures and hard-hitting investigations, we’ve handpicked the standout stories worth your weekend.
This week’s Brazen Weekender dives into the origin story of A Clockwork Orange—written in a rush after a fatal diagnosis that turned out to be false—and what it tells us about urgency, ambition, and legacy. Plus, what to watch, read, and listen to right now.
Vanished exec Jan Marsalek’s life reads like a spy thriller—from Wirecard’s collapse to Russian espionage. Plus: Arctic geoengineering, Netflix’s Titan doc, and our latest picks worth your weekend.
