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How cutting-edge pianist Zubin Kanga is pushing classical music into the future
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Classical music

How cutting-edge pianist Zubin Kanga is pushing classical music into the future

The Pole review – JM Coetzee at his most beguiling
The Pole book cover
Books

The Pole review – JM Coetzee at his most beguiling

Top 5 books about Winston Churchill, selected by historian David Reynolds
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Books

Top 5 books about Winston Churchill, selected by historian David Reynolds

BlackBerry review – the ruthlessness and farce of big business
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Film

BlackBerry review – the ruthlessness and farce of big business

How this plucky music venue is bringing a faded seaside town back from the dead
Northern Irish band Anna’s Number on stage in grassroots music venue The Court House, highlighted by Big Issue Venue Watch
Venue Watch

How this plucky music venue is bringing a faded seaside town back from the dead

Grassroots music venue The Snug rescued by community investment: 'This means everything'
a crowd of people celebrating outside The Snug in Manchester
Venue Watch news

Grassroots music venue The Snug rescued by community investment: 'This means everything'

Succession star Fisher Stevens on David Beckham doc, sportswashing and 'that f**king red card'
David Beckham and Fisher Stevens at the UK Premiere of Netflix documentary Beckham in 2023
TV

Succession star Fisher Stevens on David Beckham doc, sportswashing and 'that f**king red card'

Autumn reads: the best new books to light up the longer nights
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Autumn reads

Autumn reads: the best new books to light up the longer nights

Greek island of Lesbos holds spectacular and inclusive classical concert for asylum seekers
People sit watching classical musicians on an outdoor stage
Asylum seekers

Greek island of Lesbos holds spectacular and inclusive classical concert for asylum seekers

Boiling Point director Philip Barantini on Stephen Graham, stress and 'making a bit of dinner'
Carly in Boiling Point
TV

Boiling Point director Philip Barantini on Stephen Graham, stress and 'making a bit of dinner'

TV historian David Olusoga: 'My family were driven from our home by the National Front'
David Olusoga
Letter to my younger self

TV historian David Olusoga: 'My family were driven from our home by the National Front'

Battle to save Britain's libraries as budget cuts, closures and austerity leaves future uncertain
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Libraries Week

Battle to save Britain's libraries as budget cuts, closures and austerity leaves future uncertain

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper review – if only all fiction was this evocative
Everybody knows book cover
Review

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper review – if only all fiction was this evocative

Poet and author Blake Morrison on grief and why he wrote so much about his family
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Letter to my Younger Self

Poet and author Blake Morrison on grief and why he wrote so much about his family

Top 5 books about goddesses, selected by best-selling author Natalie Haynes
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Mythology

Top 5 books about goddesses, selected by best-selling author Natalie Haynes

Pulp star Nick Banks explains how Jarvis Cocker incident with Michael Jackson changed everything
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Interview

Pulp star Nick Banks explains how Jarvis Cocker incident with Michael Jackson changed everything

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Artist Sarah Lucas on tits, making something out of nothing and 'living in quite terrible times'
Artist Sarah Lucas
Art

Artist Sarah Lucas on tits, making something out of nothing and 'living in quite terrible times'

The Creator: Could AI have generated Gareth Edwards' gorgeous new sci-fi blockbuster?
A scene still from 20th Century Studios’ THE CREATOR, set in an AI future.
Artificial intelligence

The Creator: Could AI have generated Gareth Edwards' gorgeous new sci-fi blockbuster?

Why we all need to fall back in love with rail travel
Illustration of a steam train
Rail journeys

Why we all need to fall back in love with rail travel

Historian David Olusoga explains why breakdown of social mobility is one of UK's biggest issues
David Olusoga at the derelict former Ravenscraig steelworks site in Motherwell
Social mobility

Historian David Olusoga explains why breakdown of social mobility is one of UK's biggest issues

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