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Culture

Pharoah Sanders in a white hat and shirt

Jazz

Pharoah Sanders - discovering an elusive jazz gem

Brassic FM - a DJ and a woman dancing

opinion

Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest

Gérard Depardieu in Maigret

Interview

'When you read Maigret you feel good. You make peace with that unsettling aspect of humanity'

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah looks into the camera with his hands on his face

Interview

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: 'Black Lives Matter transformed the world'

Inside the Factory host Gregg Wallace grinning next to a conveyor belt

Lucy Sweet

Inside The Factory: Finding solace in repetition

A woman lies on the road in a nightgown surrounded by cows

TV

The Woman In The Wall: What is the true story of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries?

Ukranian Freedom Orchestra

Classical

The Ukrainian musicians fighting rocket attacks with rehearsals

Cover of The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord

first contact

The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord review: Otherworldly sci-fi

Illustration of a man next to a lake

Nature

What the hermit of Loch Treig can teach you about living your best life

Illustration of hobbits in Middle-earth

Analysis

How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times

A book of translation, a daisy and a key

Women in translation

Top 5 books by women in translation, selected by Daniel Hahn

multiverse

Bridge by Lauren Beukes review: Multiverse thriller by The Shining Girls author delivers

An underwater scene from the new thriller, The Dive

Review

The Dive: A clammy, cathartic scuba thriller

boygenius: Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker

Live review

boygenius review, Halifax: These brilliant women should be filling out stadiums

The company of The Odyssey in rehearsals. Credit: National Theatre © Joseph Lynn

theatre and community

This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale

Dawn Butler speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool

politics

Dawn Butler: Growing up with four brothers helped me navigate male-dominated Westminster

Chat Pile at Core Festival

review

Core festival Glasgow review: Chat Pile, Deafheaven, Liturgy at diverse new noise weekender

Lost Map label boss Johnny Lynch performing as part of new collective Weird Wave at the Eigg Community Hall during Howlin’ Fling 2023

Lost Map

Lost Map: How to build a DIY label on love, woolly hats and sheep dung

An illustration depicting Sola Mahfouz, who defied Afghanistan's education ban

Memoir

How one girl secretly defied Afghanistan's education ban

Dragon illustration

Fiction

Top 5 books featuring magical creatures, selected by Katherine Rundell

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