cruising

Wham! How George Michael shot to stardom straight from school

6 June 2026 9:00 am

The singer himself described his career as ‘unreal’, and admitted that one reason for cruising was the rare chance it gave him to meet ‘ordinary people’

The sexual escapades of Edmund White sound like an improbably sordid Carry On film

22 February 2025 9:00 am

The octogenarian writer seems unable to resist the burlesque, describing the most lurid encounters at an apparently droll remove

High life

29 August 2015 9:00 am

According to Somerset Maugham, in material terms one must live on the razor edge between poverty and minimal subsistence in…