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‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug-induced comas

In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are tryin…

‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts

Behind the reinforced doors of courtroom numbe…

‘God knows what’s in the water’: Los Angeles surfers in limbo as wildfire toxins linger

In a city where surfing is a way of life, the wait to get back in the water has been agonizing. But new research offers a glimmer of hope

Alex Sinunu was used to surfing three or four times a week in…

‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

Roberto Lugo and other artists of color are now feeling heat from Trump’s attack on diversity and efforts to rewrite truth of the US’s past

Artists, academics and politicians have shared their outrage…

Perfume Genius: Glory review – full of energy and biting nuance

(Matador)
Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desire

Death stalks the seventh studio album by fete…

Misericordia review – desire and dread in rural France

A young man’s village homecoming arouses enigmatic passions in this intriguing mystery from the director of Stranger By the Lake

Plenty of film-makers explore the intersection between desire and viole…

Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’

The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Mila…

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