The classic film I've never seenThe SearchersI’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind … See the other classic missed films in this series The best arts and entertainment during self-isolation When people ask me what kind of films I like, I never know what to say. I like everything! Total trash, high art, comedy, horror, British realism, Czech surrealism, Hong Kong action, Hungarian inaction, you name it.

Lost WorldsScienceThe thunder lizard returns - Brontosaurus resurrectedA new analysis restores Brontosaurus to the ranks of the dinosaurs, but why? For years palaeontologists have been trying to convince the public that Brontosaurus doesn’t, and never, existed but now a new study has been published that returns this name to the ranks of the dinosaurs. So why the sudden turn around? Such a change is in fact a very normal part of the constant updates and revisions that come with the process of taxonomy (identifying and naming new species) though in this case it comes as part of a quite exceptionally detailed study.

A car rally outside the Bata hotel. Photograph: Bata/Radical EssexA car rally outside the Bata hotel. Photograph: Bata/Radical EssexArchitectureIn the 1930s, the Czech shoe giant built a model town for its workers, who bought milk in the company supermarket, eggs at the company farm, and kept their gardens tidy – or else. Has its spirit survived? In the late 1930s, a family called the Vaclaviks left the Czech town of Zlín, travelled to Africa, then moved to a house in Essex.

Bram Stoker This article is more than 7 years old'Dracula was not from Exeter,' insists Bram Stoker descendantThis article is more than 7 years oldGreat grand-nephew of the seminal vampire novel discounts reports on research that suggested the dark count was based on a west country man, rather than his writings Bram Stoker’s descendant has rejected reports that claimed his ancestor’s most famous creation, Count Dracula, hailed not from Transylvania but Devon.

A brief survey of the short storyDavid Foster WallaceA brief survey of the short story: David Foster WallaceFor all its elaborate formal tricks, Wallace’s work is marked by a deep desire for authentic connection, to his subjects and to his readers David Foster Wallace was a maximalist. His masterpiece, Infinite Jest, is a 1,000-page, polyphonic epic about addiction and obsession in millennial America. His journalism and essays, about television and tennis, sea cruises and grammar, always swelled far beyond their allotted word counts (cut for publication, he restored many of them to their full length when they were collected in book form).