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  Culture | Film review: "Carol" A slow burn of a beautiful love story Todd Haynes's first film in 13 years is a love story both lesbian and beautifully universal Save Share Nov 19th 2015 | 4 min read By F.S. TODD HAYNES's last film, "Far from Heaven" (2002), was a meditation on a certain kind of Hollywood melodrama of the 1950s. A too-perfect suburban couple is sundered when he turns out to be gay, and she seeks solace in the friendship of the black gardener. The contrast between the surface and what lies beneath is made all the clearer by just how shiny the surface looked to begin with. "Carol" works on a similar premise, but has a very different feel. Here the tale of two New York women falling in love against the constraints of Eisenhower conservatism (based on Patricia Highsmith's cult novel "The Price of Salt") is displayed with a more grounded sumptuousness than Mr Haynes's previous work. Like "Far From Heaven", ...

  Obituary | Climb every mountain Nirmal Purja performed momentous feats in the Death Zone The Gurkha mountaineer and Netflix star died in an avalanche on July 30th, aged 43 Save Share Photograph: Alamy Aug 13th 2026 | 5 min read Listen to this story AI Narrated H is climbing career was still young when Nirmal Purja went up Dhaulagiri, the seventh-highest peak in the world. He had been born in a village in its foothills, in a house shared with chickens, but the family had moved to Nepal’s lowland south when he was five. So he had barely registered the magnificent wall of rock and snow, 8,167 metres of it, filling the horizon. Now, at 30, he was one of a climbing party toiling across it. He took his turn, of course, at trailblazing. And as he went, plunging knee-high into the snow, he was learning something extraordinary about himself. The altitude didn’t seem to be affecting him. He was strong. Each step arrived with power. Boom! Boom! Boom! Soon, the rest of the party were litt...