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Top 5 books featuring magical creatures, selected by Katherine Rundell
Dragon illustration
Fiction

Top 5 books featuring magical creatures, selected by Katherine Rundell

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside
Till Lukat's illustration of a farmer driving a tractor made of a giant radio
Environment

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
Review

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system
Ootlin by Jenni Fagan
Review

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine
Cartoon

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine

Devo 50 – UK farewell tour review: Boy, they can Booji
Devo on stage at the 02 Academy Edinburgh
review

Devo 50 – UK farewell tour review: Boy, they can Booji

Fifteen-Love's Ella Lily Hyland: 'I'm interested to tell the stories of working-class Ireland'
A boy and a girl sit on a rock beside a surfboard
Interview

Fifteen-Love's Ella Lily Hyland: 'I'm interested to tell the stories of working-class Ireland'

'I exist as two people': Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity
Peyvand Sadeghian as a child in Iran
First person

'I exist as two people': Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity

The story of the world's first drag ABBA tribute band
A man wearing a drag version of Agnetha from ABBA's outfit, as a woman leans over his shoulder looking at a laptop
Review

The story of the world's first drag ABBA tribute band

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police
Corrupt cops: Serpico lead actor Al Pacino and Training Day star Denzel Washington
Review

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police

Professor Alice Roberts: 'I got sidetracked into academia in a delightful way'
Alice Roberts
Letter to my Younger Self

Professor Alice Roberts: 'I got sidetracked into academia in a delightful way'

'Everybody deserves shelter': Chat Pile mount heavy challenge to homelessness crisis
Chat Pile the band standing together with an industrial backdrop
Interview

'Everybody deserves shelter': Chat Pile mount heavy challenge to homelessness crisis

'Artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, rebel and romantic': A personal tribute to Jamie Reid
Jamie Reid
In memoriam

'Artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, rebel and romantic': A personal tribute to Jamie Reid

Top 5 seaside stories for kids, chosen by Anthony Browne
A yellow spade and red bucket on a pebble beach
Illustrated children's books

Top 5 seaside stories for kids, chosen by Anthony Browne

‘It’s not fun to be right’: How new wave pioneers Devo predicted Trump and our ‘bankrupt materialism’
an illustration of Devo
Interview

‘It’s not fun to be right’: How new wave pioneers Devo predicted Trump and our ‘bankrupt materialism’

Meet the Drummond Street Artists – the new art collective with histories of homelessness
Geraldine Crimmins beside some of her artworks
Exhibition

Meet the Drummond Street Artists – the new art collective with histories of homelessness

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Joan Jett: 'How dare you tell me what I can and can’t do?'
US rock'n'roll great Joan Jett
Letter to my Younger Self

Joan Jett: 'How dare you tell me what I can and can’t do?'

Paapa Essiedu: 'It’s hard for me not to be political in the work that I do'
Paapa Essiedu
Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu: 'It’s hard for me not to be political in the work that I do'

William Friedkin on 'rip-off' Exorcist sequels, Scorsese selling out and dressing as Ali G
William Friedkin Image: Warner Bros./Hoya Productions
Film

William Friedkin on 'rip-off' Exorcist sequels, Scorsese selling out and dressing as Ali G

Dodging death, downpours and Oxbridge dilettantes: Paul Merton's Edinburgh Fringe
Comedian Paul Merton ahead of his improv show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Interview

Dodging death, downpours and Oxbridge dilettantes: Paul Merton's Edinburgh Fringe

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