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US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt’s drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David ByrneHis bestselling children’s books are regularly turned into hit plays and musicals but now Roald Dahl’s personal li...
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Growing up, Rosy Carrick was fascinated by Schwarzenegger, Lundgren and other shredded 80s screen stars. Now she is exploring what they helped her realise about her sex lifeIs there a gap between our private desires and the ones we are brave enough t...
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He was the boy from Alabama who wrote a hit while still at school. And the classics just kept coming – from I’m Your Puppet to Do Right Woman. The great songwriter relives his days with the starsAretha Franklin was six years into a hit-free career wh...
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Stephen Fry donnishly voices the Italian genius in this somewhat storyless family film about his life and explorations‘Excommunication is too good for him! I should boil him in his own drawing ink!” Pope Leo X (voiced by Toast of London’s Matt Berry)...
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ID3 tag on a track of his posted to SoundCloud in 2014 saying ‘vaccines are poisonous’ has been changed, said the musicianAphex Twin has clarified his stance on vaccines after anti-vax sentiments and other conspiracy theories appeared in the ID3 tag...
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A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture warsThere are many interesting games going on in Julius Taranto’s How I Won a Nobel Prize, a novel about art and po...
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The Gilead author explores the first book of the Bible and finds it full of meaning – even hope – for todayIn an extended dialogue between Marilynne Robinson and Barack Obama, published a few years ago in the New York Review of Books, Obama homes in...
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All the usual bells and whistles, including a live feed so you can watch the celebs 24/7. Plus: Trump – the Sequel? Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
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Adored by the Obamas and worshipped by Joni Mitchell, songwriter Gregg Alexander looks back at Murder on the Dancefloor, given a new life by Saltburn, and his other smash, You Get What You GiveIn 1994, Gregg Alexander got into his blue Ford Mustang t...
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The Place, LondonHumans keep making the same mistakes as five survivors of an apocalyptic event try to build a new civilisationHow to Build a Universe is a high-concept show. Imagine you were one of the last few survivors on the planet after an apoca...
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London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?Dickens and theatre are forever linked. The latest adaptation of his wor...
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Angie Kim lives up to her award-winning debut with her gripping second novel, Alice Winn stuns with a powerful first world war love story, and first-hand insights into lonelinessHappiness FallsAngie KimFaber, £16.99, pp400When 20-year-old Mia Parkson...
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A gay Nigerian is persecuted by his father and the state in Ibeh’s stylish and moving debut novelBorn in 2000 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chukwuebuka Ibeh is the product of a well-deserved American MFA studentship, the ultimate finishing school for ne...
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(Hajanga/Decca)The British musical prodigy pulls together disparate genres, guests and even his audiences on the last leg of this wild rideOver the past six years, the 29-year-old musical prodigy Jacob Collier has embarked on a gargantuan task. In hi...
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The screenwriter’s mashup of 80s teen horror tropes falls flat in Zelda Williams’s erratic feature debutCobbled together from the cleavered-off body parts of numerous 80s horror-lite teen comedies (I’m not sure I have ever seen a film that more despe...