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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Wigglesworth review – phrasing with hospital corners
BSO’s concert with their chief conductor Mark Wigglesworth mixed Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Adès and Sibelius. Best of a...
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What Chris Rock’s film Misty Green misses about Black characters
Director Rock establishes the film’s setting of Los Angeles better than the lead character, played by Rosalind Eleazar
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Ellie & Natasia review – please give us more of this irresistibly weird comedy
The hilarious duo are back with deeply silly sketches about an evil trad-wife, Lime bike addicts and Dubai chocolate. Th...
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‘It feels quite frightening’: readers rush to snap up Sally Rooney books as stocks dwindle amid Palestine Action ban
Booksellers have reported selling out of the Irish novelist’s works after it was announced that her books would be withd...
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Popcorn with your Puccini: can opera on screen ever work?
Composers have harnessed TV and cinema since Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors pulled in five million viewers 75 ye...
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‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?
With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony...
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‘If the lion does not tell its story, the hunter will’: a century of thrilling Cameroonian art
Key players in the country’s art history feature in a hefty new tome that covers everything from royal-carvers to bronze...
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The Digger disaster: what an epic movie flop means for Tom Cruise and Hollywood
Unprecedented folly of misjudgment, bad timing and spectacular hubris is predicted to lose $245m. How did this happen?
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‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis
The Turkish writer talks about her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government and overcoming depression...
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‘I know I can do anything’: new archive of AS Byatt’s papers looks inside the writer’s extraordinary mind
The Booker-wining author of Possession was known for her voracious research. Now, 68 boxes of her notebooks, letters and...
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The Guide #265: Your favourite record labels, from Motown to Flying Nun
In this week’s newsletter: Record labels always push music forward into interesting new places. Here’s a celebration of...
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The Audacity: this witty tech-bro takedown from a Succession writer is packed with glorious one-liners
Jonathan Glatzer’s pitch-black Silicon Valley satire exposes tech-CEO greed and billionaire egos – at the intriguing, me...