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Red Rooms director Pascal Plante on empathy, digital horror and why we’re all way too online
Film

Red Rooms director Pascal Plante on empathy, digital horror and why we’re all way too online

Top 5 books by freedom fighters chosen by French-Algerian author Xavier Le Clerc
Books

Top 5 books by freedom fighters chosen by French-Algerian author Xavier Le Clerc

How letters from a 15th-century housewife unlock secrets of a forgotten England
Books

How letters from a 15th-century housewife unlock secrets of a forgotten England

Oedipus Rex and the emerging trend of operas using a mix of amateur and pro voices
Music

Oedipus Rex and the emerging trend of operas using a mix of amateur and pro voices

Prisoner turned actor Clarence Maclin on life inside Sing Sing – and starring in a film based on it
Film

Prisoner turned actor Clarence Maclin on life inside Sing Sing – and starring in a film based on it

Arnie said he’d be back… How The Terminator and other classics are taking over cinemas – again
Film

Arnie said he’d be back… How The Terminator and other classics are taking over cinemas – again

The Echoes by Evie Wyld review – exquisite and frustrating
Books

The Echoes by Evie Wyld review – exquisite and frustrating

Bluff by Danez Smith review – defiant poetry of protest
Books

Bluff by Danez Smith review – defiant poetry of protest

Whistleblowing: Why doing the right thing can come with a devastating cost
Books

Whistleblowing: Why doing the right thing can come with a devastating cost

Top 5 great books given really great film adaptations – chosen by screenplay writer Moira Buffini
Books

Top 5 great books given really great film adaptations – chosen by screenplay writer Moira Buffini

Hip-hop pioneers Kneecap on peace, Super Noodles and bringing Irish into the modern day
Film

Hip-hop pioneers Kneecap on peace, Super Noodles and bringing Irish into the modern day

Nick Cave on wild swimming, sons’ deaths and why a broken world can be beautiful at the same time
Music

Nick Cave on wild swimming, sons’ deaths and why a broken world can be beautiful at the same time

The Salt Flats by Rachelle Atalla review – risk-taking and unsettling speculative fiction
Books

The Salt Flats by Rachelle Atalla review – risk-taking and unsettling speculative fiction

The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim review – pitch-black humour on the brink of chaos
Books

The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim review – pitch-black humour on the brink of chaos

Nick Cave: ‘The worst happened. It maybe made me a little braver’
Music

Nick Cave: ‘The worst happened. It maybe made me a little braver’

Fontaines DC, TikTok crazes and trouser chains: The unsettling return of nu metal, explained
Music

Fontaines DC, TikTok crazes and trouser chains: The unsettling return of nu metal, explained

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Top 5 books about obsession, selected by author and academic Marieke Bigg
Books

Top 5 books about obsession, selected by author and academic Marieke Bigg

Why I love sea turtles – and why we have to save them
Conservation

Why I love sea turtles – and why we have to save them

Only The River Flows review – a Chinese crime thriller awash with mystery 
Film

Only The River Flows review – a Chinese crime thriller awash with mystery 

Vicky McClure: ‘Everybody’s lives are important. No matter where you come from’
TV

Vicky McClure: ‘Everybody’s lives are important. No matter where you come from’