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Top 5 literary train journeys, selected by Christine Mangan
Steam train going over a viaduct
Fiction

Top 5 literary train journeys, selected by Christine Mangan

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia review: Menacing and magical happenings made believable
horror

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia review: Menacing and magical happenings made believable

My Extinction: How I learned to start worrying and love activism
Josh Appignanesi meets a furry activist
Opinion

My Extinction: How I learned to start worrying and love activism

Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage
First person

Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage

Britpop’s returning heroes remain a different class 
Britpop

Britpop’s returning heroes remain a different class 

Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott review: A slow-burning thriller that explodes into horror
Fiction

Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott review: A slow-burning thriller that explodes into horror

Unlike Nigel Farage, millions of people really are financially excluded – that's who the system is rigged against
Coutts
Paul McNamee

Unlike Nigel Farage, millions of people really are financially excluded – that's who the system is rigged against

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – 'We want this play to sit alongside the campaign for justice'
Actor Pearl Mackie in rehearsals
Grenfell

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – 'We want this play to sit alongside the campaign for justice'

Izzy-wizzy, let's get busy with 75 facts about Sooty on his 75th birthday!
Sooty, Sweep and Soo with Harry and Matthew Corbett. Image supplied
TV

Izzy-wizzy, let's get busy with 75 facts about Sooty on his 75th birthday!

Who will form an Anti-Stupidity Party to save us from ourselves? 
John Bird

Who will form an Anti-Stupidity Party to save us from ourselves? 

The Quatermass Experiment at 70: The show that invented modern TV
On the set of The Quatermass Experiment
Screen

The Quatermass Experiment at 70: The show that invented modern TV

Andy Burnham: 'Housing is a human right'
Interview

Andy Burnham: 'Housing is a human right'

Immigration is inevitable. Let’s make it work
Paul McNamee

Immigration is inevitable. Let’s make it work

The Howl & The Hum: How we rewrote a future we thought was lost
The Howl & The Hum's Sam Griffiths sitting on a chair playing guitar
Music

The Howl & The Hum: How we rewrote a future we thought was lost

How Matthew Halsall enticed new ears to Manchester's magical jazz scene
Matthew Halsall playing a trumpet in front of a coloured screen
Interview

How Matthew Halsall enticed new ears to Manchester's magical jazz scene

Top 5 unlikely fictional heroes, selected by David Jackson
Illustration of Bilbo Baggins leaning against a tree
Fiction

Top 5 unlikely fictional heroes, selected by David Jackson

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
My Dog Sighs: 'The power of art is it makes people look at the world in a different way'
Large-scale mural of an eye by My Dogs Sighs in Jackson, Michigan (2020)
Interview

My Dog Sighs: 'The power of art is it makes people look at the world in a different way'

The question I'd most like to ask Kim Yo-Jong, North Korea's doyenne of despotism
Illustration of Kim Yo-Jong
North Korea

The question I'd most like to ask Kim Yo-Jong, North Korea's doyenne of despotism

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams review: Women in the shadow of war
The Bookbinder of Jericho cover
Fiction

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams review: Women in the shadow of war

The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly review: A story of Scotland's black gold rush
The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly book cover
Fiction

The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly review: A story of Scotland's black gold rush

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