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After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace by Robert Polito book review: history in flux
Book review

After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace by Robert Polito book review: history in flux

Polito provides in-depth analysis of Dylan’s key works from this period in a kinetic prose style befitting his subject

Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer review: highly entertaining and endearingly droll
Book review

Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer review: highly entertaining and endearingly droll

Planer has enjoyed a long, successful career doing something he absolutely loves

Jews and Muslims’ connected history goes beyond Gaza. It’s a story that needs to be told right now
Books

Jews and Muslims’ connected history goes beyond Gaza. It’s a story that needs to be told right now

Muslims and Jews have engaged one another, sometimes for better, sometimes as partners, for over 1,400 years

Nick Mohammed: ‘Doing the school drop-off during Celebrity Traitors was crazy’
TV

Nick Mohammed: ‘Doing the school drop-off during Celebrity Traitors was crazy’

50 years of Bongo Fury: Reliving Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s volatile classic
Music

50 years of Bongo Fury: Reliving Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s volatile classic

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Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey  
Top 5

Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey  

How Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man takes on the rise of fascism: ‘You absorb what’s happening’
Film

How Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man takes on the rise of fascism: ‘You absorb what’s happening’

Forty years of Flare, London’s LGBTQIA+ film festival: ‘We’ve become a really important safe space’
Film

Forty years of Flare, London’s LGBTQIA+ film festival: ‘We’ve become a really important safe space’

Kneecap break silence on terror charges: ‘I can’t be completely responsible all the time’
Kneecap

Kneecap break silence on terror charges: ‘I can’t be completely responsible all the time’

Handcuffed: We just want to see two flabby-bottomed strangers take a really awkward shower together
TV

Handcuffed: We just want to see two flabby-bottomed strangers take a really awkward shower together

Crux by Gabriel Tallent book review: feats of wild imagination
Review

Crux by Gabriel Tallent book review: feats of wild imagination

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward book review: slow-burn thriller with a nerve-shredding finale
Review

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward book review: slow-burn thriller with a nerve-shredding finale

Former Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon: ‘Trump? Hopefully he’ll just keel over and die’ 
Letter To My Younger Self

Former Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon: ‘Trump? Hopefully he’ll just keel over and die’ 

What has punk ever done for us?
Punk

What has punk ever done for us?

Rebellion Festival: a festival for punks who like to be beside the seaside
Punk

Rebellion Festival: a festival for punks who like to be beside the seaside

Top 5 romantasy reads, chosen by author Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Top 5

Top 5 romantasy reads, chosen by author Clíodhna O’Sullivan

The Molotovs: ‘We kind of created a scene from nothing’
Interview

The Molotovs: ‘We kind of created a scene from nothing’

Channel 4’s Handcuffed shows the stark realities of homelessness can move anyone, even millionaires
TV

Channel 4’s Handcuffed shows the stark realities of homelessness can move anyone, even millionaires

Why the hell would you write a punk song about Davos in 2026? 
Music

Why the hell would you write a punk song about Davos in 2026? 

Punk isn’t dead. Here’s where you can find it in 2026
Punk

Punk isn’t dead. Here’s where you can find it in 2026

One Last Deal review: a magnification of everything we love about Danny Dyer
Review

One Last Deal review: a magnification of everything we love about Danny Dyer

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In pictures: Celebrating the punk photography of Spike Waltzer
Exhibition

In pictures: Celebrating the punk photography of Spike Waltzer

May We Feed The King by Rebecca Perry book review: communing with the past
Fiction

May We Feed The King by Rebecca Perry book review: communing with the past

Glyph by Ali Smith book review: radical energy, resistance and courage
Fiction

Glyph by Ali Smith book review: radical energy, resistance and courage

British Book Awards: Ruth Jones, Charles Mackesy and Mick Herron among Author of the Year nominees
Books

British Book Awards: Ruth Jones, Charles Mackesy and Mick Herron among Author of the Year nominees