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The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-PaisantThe 10 shortlisted poetry collections for the 2023 TS Eliot prize announced today reflect the “disrupt...
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Most history documentaries are so drearily simplistic they make you cross-eyed with boredom. Thank goodness then for this fascinating, first-rate effort about how our septic isle came to be I am woefully lacking in all sorts of knowledge, but none mo...
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Kiernan Shipka travels back to the 80s to stop a massacre in an Amazon comedy horror that only offers brief pleasuresThere are echoes of Happy Death Day, Back to the Future and The Final Girls in Amazon’s perky Halloween offering Totally Killer, echo...
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World-renowned artist gifts painting to mark award of honorary degree for author’s outstanding achievements The acclaimed African American artist Kerry James Marshall has donated his first formal portrait of a living person to the University of Cambr...
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The Last Week Tonight host blasted studios for dragging out the writers’ strike and dove into the issue of grossly inadequate healthcare for US prisonersFor the first time since April, John Oliver returned to Last Week Tonight on Sunday evening with...
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East Gallery, Norwich/V&A London The artist who created a menstruating superhero has now made a deeply personal body of work, responding to the global epidemic of domestic violenceIt’s not every day you find yourself riding on a giant tampon acro...
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Restore Trust wants its members elected to the charity’s governing council to rid it of its ‘woke agenda’The National Trust has raised concerns about “political pressure” and defended its right to lobby on nature amid a renewed campaign by a self-sty...
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An expansive new exhibition at the Met explores the fractious personal and professional relationship between two titans of the French art worldIn addition to being contemporaries who each produced storied masterpieces that were instrumental in the de...
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‘It was about a woman who had lost her job at a cosmetic counter and now begged in the streets dressed well in full makeup. She felt she had to look respectable if she was going to ask for money’My father was a jazz musician and my great-aunt Ethel w...
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Khalifa was one of Syria’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, though his six novels were banned in the countrySyrian author, poet and screenwriter Khaled Khalifa, whose novels set in Aleppo memorialised a city ruined by civil war, has died aged 5...
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Set at a rural Australian monastery, with a minimal plot and a looming climate catastrophe, this is a book of introspection – and of despairGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailStone Yard Devotional begins with an unnamed woman pulling up in th...
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The guitarist’s diary of their formation and early tours gets its first English translation, offering funny, biting, absorbing insight into the influential band beloved by the likes of Kurt CobainOn 29 March 1978, Marlene Marder leapt into her new ex...
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While many criticise content guidance in art and literature, others argue they help people make informed choicesWhen a London theatre decided to warn potential audiences about strong language, sexual references, grief and death in its latest producti...
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Barbican, LondonCanadian company Why Not Theatre’s take on the Sanskrit poem, led by South Asian artists, exquisitely blends classical elements with modern, but feels distant in the second actThe magisterial Sanskrit poem comprising the Mahabharata i...
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Comic book author and graphic novelist wants to spend time in the role tackling industry’s lack of diversityThe comic book author and graphic novelist Bobby Joseph has become the first person of colour to be appointed the UK’s comics laureate.Joseph,...