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Sarah Kane’s Cleansed leaves you feeling anything but

The late playwright’s performances are always a hard watch – this one will make you sick
By Emily Lawford
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My dinner table chat repels fellow diners
Life

My dinner table chat repels fellow diners

Nicholas Lezard
Culture

Who owns the Odyssey?

Rachel Cunliffe
Food & Drink

Beer and sandwiches: At the Ram Inn at Firle

New Statesman
Books

In Italy, everything is a family affair

Ian Thomson
Watching Mayo win, I said goodbye to Ireland
Gaelic football

Watching Mayo win, I said goodbye to Ireland

Luke O’Reilly
Cinema

Is David Thomson still watching?

Jonathan Romney
Interviews
Is Kim Gordon still a Kool Thing?
The Culture Interview

Is Kim Gordon still a Kool Thing?

Zoë Huxford
Daniel Mendelsohn: "The Odyssey is a blueprint for all comedy"
Culture

Daniel Mendelsohn: “The Odyssey is a blueprint for all comedy”

Tanjil Rashid
Ludovico Einaudi repeats himself
The Weekend Interview

Ludovico Einaudi repeats himself

Elizabeth Djinis
Jeremy King's empire of nostalgia
The New Statesman Interview

Jeremy King’s empire of nostalgia

Finn McRedmond
Reviews
Culture

Music, Fashion, Film is Charli xcx at her subversive best

Ella Dorn
TV

In praise of crap daytime TV

Nicholas Harris
The con man of anthropology
Books

The con man of anthropology

Steven Poole
Theatre

Trainspotting puts line dancing at the heart of the heroin experience

Kate Mossman
Art & Design

Agnes Martin’s paintings can save you

Michael Prodger
On the Sea: a romantic delirium
Film

On the Sea: a romantic delirium

David Sexton
The long read
My mother’s love for words
Personal Story

My mother’s love for words

As a child, Marie Drabble would read anything that was printed, from adverts to lists. It was a habit that…
By Margaret Drabble
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