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28 days ago

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year

This exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essential

Sometimes you need to leave a place before you can write ab…

48 days ago

‘It’s like a men’s shed’: inside the Pokémon trading card communities rocked by a string of brazen thefts

The value of Pokémon cards is booming, but for people who gather weekly to trade and battle their Pikachus and Togepis, the cards mean much more than cash

On a sleepy Tuesday night, beneath an arts an…

58 days ago

Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive

Samuel Butler’s 1903 novel The Way o…

59 days ago

Like Tears in Rain review – Rutger Hauer portrait takes deep dive into the archive

Likable enough documentary by the actor’s goddaughter recalls an actor who never quite fitted in Hollywood, without adding much to what we already knew

The late Dutch actor Rutger Hauer is probably st…

70 days ago

Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the Booker

David S…

3 months ago

Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – a flame that still burns bright

(Rock Action)
Conceived in troubled circumstances, the Glasgow band’s follow-up to their 2021 chart-topper As the Love Continues is compelling balm

After the triumph of scoring an unlikely pandemic UK …

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