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

Summer books: The hottest fiction to read in 2023
Summer books - the best of 2023
best reads

Summer books: The hottest fiction to read in 2023

Jayde Adams on how Take That movie Greatest Days captures the 'intensity of fandom'
Greatest Days
Greatest Days

Jayde Adams on how Take That movie Greatest Days captures the 'intensity of fandom'

Alma Singer: 'Art can challenge what's going on in the world'
Carla Nizzola, aka Alma Singer
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Alma Singer: 'Art can challenge what's going on in the world'

The evolution of Mean Girls on screen... from Heathers to Sex Education
Sex Education Season 3. Mimi Keene as Ruby Matthews in Episode 6 of Sex Education Season 3. Cr.
analysis

The evolution of Mean Girls on screen... from Heathers to Sex Education

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on their Sheffield shows: ‘It feels like a victory lap’
Matt Helders, Arctic Monkeys drummer
Arctic Monkeys x Big Issue

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on their Sheffield shows: ‘It feels like a victory lap’

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a 'soldier' for overlooked Black history
Kelvin J Harrison in Chevalier
Black history

Chevalier: Kelvin Harrison Jr on being a 'soldier' for overlooked Black history

'I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up'
Si Mack performs his new show, kid, at BEAF Festival in Bournemouth.
real stories

'I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up'

From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare
Robert Carlyle as Gaz in The Full Monty carrying a mattress
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From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare

First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’
Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies in his stage makeup
protest music

First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’

Aleister Crowley and the secret history of UK witches in World War II
Witches of World War II:
history

Aleister Crowley and the secret history of UK witches in World War II

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it's a nightclub policy – 'one in, one out'
Gina Yashere
racism

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it's a nightclub policy – 'one in, one out'

Robert Carlyle says the UK has had enough of the Tories as The Full Monty arrives on Disney+
Robert Carlyle
Politics

Robert Carlyle says the UK has had enough of the Tories as The Full Monty arrives on Disney+

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The governments who called on sci-fi writers to predict the future
Illustration of sciency things
military

The governments who called on sci-fi writers to predict the future

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world
History

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world

Top 5 books about queer teenage romance, chosen by Helen Palmer
Two young people holding hands
LGBT+

Top 5 books about queer teenage romance, chosen by Helen Palmer

Shirley Collins: Heartbreak stole my voice. Singing again is extraordinary
Shirley Collins
Letter to my Younger Self

Shirley Collins: Heartbreak stole my voice. Singing again is extraordinary