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Michael Flatley on writing, directing and starring in his spy thriller Blackbird
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Michael Flatley on writing, directing and starring in his spy thriller Blackbird

Sayaka Murata’s Life Ceremony: A fairly mixed bag of strange and grotesque tales
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Sayaka Murata’s Life Ceremony: A fairly mixed bag of strange and grotesque tales

The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe: A clarion call for disenfranchised people
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The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe: A clarion call for disenfranchised people

Top 5 books about wizards and witchcraft, chosen by Malcolm Gaskill
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books about wizards and witchcraft, chosen by Malcolm Gaskill

Chad Orzel: What happened to history’s missing 10 days?
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Chad Orzel: What happened to history’s missing 10 days?

Book reviews: The Second Cut and The Anomaly
Book reviews

Book reviews: The Second Cut and The Anomaly

Top 5 books on Scotland’s witches and myths, chosen by Helen Fields
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books on Scotland’s witches and myths, chosen by Helen Fields

Lessons by Ian McEwan review: Few can turn a phrase so exquisitely
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Lessons by Ian McEwan review: Few can turn a phrase so exquisitely

EIFF highlights: From naked New Zealanders to Korean car chases
Film

EIFF highlights: From naked New Zealanders to Korean car chases

The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens review: The apocalypse is coming for us all, baby
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The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens review: The apocalypse is coming for us all, baby

Top 5 books about bands of boys, chosen by Jason Roche
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books about bands of boys, chosen by Jason Roche

Memory: Another outing for Liam Neeson’s cool black coat
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Memory: Another outing for Liam Neeson’s cool black coat

Hugh Bonneville: ‘I’m not scary, I’m cuddly’ – how the Downton Abbey star became the villain in new Netflix film I Came By
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Hugh Bonneville: ‘I’m not scary, I’m cuddly’ – how the Downton Abbey star became the villain in new Netflix film I Came By

Top 5 books about musicians, chosen by the late Mark Lanegan
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books about musicians, chosen by the late Mark Lanegan

Orlam by PJ Harvey review: Singer-songwriter’s poetry book is a rich and unwieldy epic
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Orlam by PJ Harvey review: Singer-songwriter’s poetry book is a rich and unwieldy epic

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers: a delve inside the mind of a monster
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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers: a delve inside the mind of a monster

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Gabriel Byrne: ‘Leonard Cohen has been a soundtrack to my life’
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Gabriel Byrne: ‘Leonard Cohen has been a soundtrack to my life’

Raja Shehadeh: We weren’t close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him
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Raja Shehadeh: We weren’t close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him

This is Gwar review: ‘A goofy, goopy assault on the senses’
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This is Gwar review: ‘A goofy, goopy assault on the senses’

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