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Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance
Review

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system
Review

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system

Sport is not just life and death. It’s far more important than that
Opinion

Sport is not just life and death. It’s far more important than that

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine
Cartoon

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine

Animal Kwackers and the affirming power of great TV
Sam Delaney

Animal Kwackers and the affirming power of great TV

Big Issue vendor Bex, her dog Rainbow, and an extraordinary act of kindness
Big Issue vendors

Big Issue vendor Bex, her dog Rainbow, and an extraordinary act of kindness

Fifteen-Love’s Ella Lily Hyland: ‘I’m interested to tell the stories of working-class Ireland’
Interview

Fifteen-Love’s Ella Lily Hyland: ‘I’m interested to tell the stories of working-class Ireland’

‘I exist as two people’: Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity
First person

‘I exist as two people’: Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police
Review

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police

How efficiency can change your life 
John Bird

How efficiency can change your life 

What I learnt as a volunteer for a Calais charity supporting refugees
Refugees

What I learnt as a volunteer for a Calais charity supporting refugees

Top 5 seaside stories for kids, chosen by Anthony Browne
Illustrated children's books

Top 5 seaside stories for kids, chosen by Anthony Browne

Hotel Sacher is changing lives one slice of cake at a time
International vendors

Hotel Sacher is changing lives one slice of cake at a time

Meet the Drummond Street Artists – the new art collective with histories of homelessness
Exhibition

Meet the Drummond Street Artists – the new art collective with histories of homelessness

Cycling gives a fleeting glimpse of a brighter future
Paul McNamee

Cycling gives a fleeting glimpse of a brighter future

Joan Jett: ‘How dare you tell me what I can and can’t do?’
Letter to my Younger Self

Joan Jett: ‘How dare you tell me what I can and can’t do?’

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William Friedkin on ‘rip-off’ Exorcist sequels, Scorsese selling out and dressing as Ali G
Film

William Friedkin on ‘rip-off’ Exorcist sequels, Scorsese selling out and dressing as Ali G

Dodging death, downpours and Oxbridge dilettantes: Paul Merton’s Edinburgh Fringe
Interview

Dodging death, downpours and Oxbridge dilettantes: Paul Merton’s Edinburgh Fringe

In memory of my mother, 50 years after her death
John Bird

In memory of my mother, 50 years after her death

Fara Williams: ‘I was living in hostels for seven years – football saved me’
Letter to my Younger Self

Fara Williams: ‘I was living in hostels for seven years – football saved me’