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A Dispatch from '24 Hour Wes Fest', or The Peculiar Oddities of a Wes Anderson Cinematic Endurance Test
Wes Anderson films: Asteroid City, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr Fox. Images: 87 Productions/Focus Features, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Everett Collection
review

A Dispatch from '24 Hour Wes Fest', or The Peculiar Oddities of a Wes Anderson Cinematic Endurance Test

Children of Windrush: Mica Paris, Jay Blades, Lenny Henry and more reflect on heritage and identity
Children of Windrush
Letter to my younger self

Children of Windrush: Mica Paris, Jay Blades, Lenny Henry and more reflect on heritage and identity

‘I felt so powerful’: Jen Reid on inspiring the next generation after Bristol protests
jen reid bristol protests. Jen Reid stands in front of the new black resin and steel statue portraying her
interview

‘I felt so powerful’: Jen Reid on inspiring the next generation after Bristol protests

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'It should not be a novelty that there's more than one Black face on stage'
Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE.
Letter To My Younger Self

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'It should not be a novelty that there's more than one Black face on stage'

The Wicker Man at 50: Woozy, semi-surreal and hugely influential
The Wicker Man
folk horror

The Wicker Man at 50: Woozy, semi-surreal and hugely influential

Top 5 books by Jamaican writers, chosen by Kereen Getten
books

Top 5 books by Jamaican writers, chosen by Kereen Getten

‘Pavement is as viable today as we were in the mid-90s’
Pavement
interview

‘Pavement is as viable today as we were in the mid-90s’

Faith healing: How churches offer reassurance in tough times
Churches

Faith healing: How churches offer reassurance in tough times

This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor review: Tragic happenings become urban legend
This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes) is out now (Fitzcarraldo, £12.99)
short stories

This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor review: Tragic happenings become urban legend

Patterflash by Adam Lowe review: Acrobatic and winking poems of queer life
Patterflash by Adam Lowe
poetry

Patterflash by Adam Lowe review: Acrobatic and winking poems of queer life

Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask
Banksy Cut & Run
review

Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask

The UK’s best independent bookshops
Best independent bookshops
shop local

The UK’s best independent bookshops

Glenda Jackson defied expectations to succeed in acting and politics
Glenda Jackson
obituary

Glenda Jackson defied expectations to succeed in acting and politics

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends'
Chi-chi Nwanoku
Music

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends'

Robert Carlyle interview: 'The Full Monty is highly political'
Robert Carlyle
Miniseries

Robert Carlyle interview: 'The Full Monty is highly political'

Gina Yashere: 'I was terrified some unscrupulous people would try to out me'
Letter to my Younger Self

Gina Yashere: 'I was terrified some unscrupulous people would try to out me'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The essential guide to the UK's best book festivals 2023
Book festivals map
Book festivals 2023

The essential guide to the UK's best book festivals 2023

How book festivals can fix their diversity problem
Syima Aslam
Books

How book festivals can fix their diversity problem

The best kids' books for summer 2023
Kids books: illustration of The Wall Between Us by Dan Smith.
Recommended

The best kids' books for summer 2023

Rocky Horror at 50: 'A place for the marginalised'
Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry and Richard O’Brien in the 1975 movie adaptation. Image: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo
another dimension

Rocky Horror at 50: 'A place for the marginalised'

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