Alan Garner’s memoir is one of the best things he’s ever written
The prose is so clear that it feels less like writing and more like a surrendering to memory itself.
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Orphans: how we continue to fail children who lose their parents
All would agree that when children lose their parents it is tragic, yet orphans have so often been neglected and…
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Spike Lee’s grotesque comic thriller BlacKkKlansman is unique and electrifying
BlacKkKlansman is inspired by actual events – or, as the opening titles put it, “Dis joint is based on some fo’…
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Why you should sink your teeth into the 1974 novel Jaws
Overshadowed by the 1975 film, this time-passing beach read is late-summer perfection on the radio.
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From Sixties hippies to anarchist drag queens, I discovered one cultural treasure after another
From Joshua Gamson’s The Fabulous Sylvester, I learnt of the birth of the San Francisco gay scene and the counterculture of the…
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Leader: VS Naipaul and the hardness of the world
Not since Conrad had a novelist so completely absorbed himself in the shifting complexities of his age.
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Five foods that are definitely in crisis because my millennial family won’t eat them
My first hint that something might be wrong was when I offered my 21-year-old cousin Sarah an egg sandwich.
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“You felt your life was ending”: inside Shattered – the televised sleep deprivation experiment
While experts opposed 2004’s challenge to stay awake for seven nights for £100,000, its participants think reality shows today are crueller.
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