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Get your entries in for The Big Issue's Christmas Kids Cover Competition
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Get your entries in for The Big Issue's Christmas Kids Cover Competition

Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Our home was rich with music
Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason The Music That Made Me
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Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Our home was rich with music

Nathan Filer's podcast Why Do I Feel is a series of beautifully told stories
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Nathan Filer's podcast Why Do I Feel is a series of beautifully told stories

How Ridley Road joins the dots between a housing crisis and the rise of the far right
Agnes O'Casey stars in Ridley Road. Photo: BBC / Ben Blackall
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How Ridley Road joins the dots between a housing crisis and the rise of the far right

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki: A deeply profound novel about human connection
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The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki: A deeply profound novel about human connection

Bewilderment by Richard Powers: Packs a hell of a punch
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Bewilderment by Richard Powers: Packs a hell of a punch

The Jazz is Dead label avoids being a vanity project to create something entirely new
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The Jazz is Dead label avoids being a vanity project to create something entirely new

Author Fiona Valpy discovers the real Casablanca
The Storyteller of Casablanca by Fiona Valpy is out now (Lake Union Publishing. Illustration: Joseph Joyce
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Author Fiona Valpy discovers the real Casablanca

Five of the worst sexist costumes on sale this Halloween
Halloween 2021 - the wirst sexist outfits
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Five of the worst sexist costumes on sale this Halloween

Venom: Let There Be Carnage is another missed opportunity for a superhero-horror crossover
Venom: Let There Be Carnage lacks bite. Image: Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage is another missed opportunity for a superhero-horror crossover

Dolly Parton, Dave Grohl and Billie Piper feature in Letter To My Younger Self paperback
The Letter To My Younger Self paperback edition is out now.
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Dolly Parton, Dave Grohl and Billie Piper feature in Letter To My Younger Self paperback

Fab films: The best documentaries about The Beatles
Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison playing their famous gig on a London rooftop
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Fab films: The best documentaries about The Beatles

Billy Bragg: 'There’s nothing worse than giving in to your own cynicism'
Billy Bragg. Image: Jill Furmanovsky
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Billy Bragg: 'There’s nothing worse than giving in to your own cynicism'

Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds reveals the music that saved his life
Dan Reynolds and Imagine Dragons
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Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds reveals the music that saved his life

Top 5 books about the Windrush Generation, chosen by author Paul Mendez
22nd June 1948: The ex-troopship 'Empire Windrush' arriving at Tilbury Docks from Jamaica, with 482 Jamaicans on board, emigrating to Britain. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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Top 5 books about the Windrush Generation, chosen by author Paul Mendez

Exclusive: David Lloyd's unseen drafts of iconic V for Vendetta mask
Artist David Lloyd. stands in front of the V for Vendetta masks he originally designed which became an emblem for the Occupy movement.
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Exclusive: David Lloyd's unseen drafts of iconic V for Vendetta mask

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Top 5 books for children, chosen by Matt Lucas
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Top 5 books for children, chosen by Matt Lucas

Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett: 'Unlike anything you've read before'
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Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett: 'Unlike anything you've read before'

Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin: 'A compulsive narrative drive'
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Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin: 'A compulsive narrative drive'

Author Tash Aw: 'So many of us have multiple identities'
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Author Tash Aw: 'So many of us have multiple identities'