Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is pregnant with possibility
Adam Driver stars in this wry and poetic comedy.
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Blair: out of exile
King Lear, Old Vic: Glenda Jackson’s star turn hides the holes in this production
Sex-swapping the lead role provides a fresh insight into Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.
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What to drink to mourn Leonard Cohen and the unravelling of civilisation?
It’s odd how, often, wine consumed at key moments is unintentionally appropriate.
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On Remembrance Sunday it is my father who fills my memories
I grew up knowing that Dad never fought in the war: it ended just in time.
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I’m in Bangladesh as I needed to put a few thousand miles between myself and the Hovel
So I had to go to Dhaka. To its literary festival, to be precise.
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When I buy Spurs, I’ll make full use of the “remembrance screens”
Football is a medium, and you can decide what your message is.
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A lunchtime in the life of Radio Norfolk
Antonia Quirke tunes into Treasure Quest Extra Time on the local radio station.
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What has the Turner Prize ever done for us?
Waldemar Januszczak thinks it was responsible for turning the British into a nation of modern-art lovers. Rachel Cooke disagrees.
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Can François Fillon stop Marine Le Pen becoming France’s president?
The presidential ambitions of the “French Thatcherite”.
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Danger on the dance floor: how bad drugs policy is forcing Britain’s nightclubs to close
Fabric might be reopening, but almost 45 per cent of Britain’s clubs have closed since 2005.
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Commons Confidential: Murray comes in from the cold
Plus: the adventures of Philip “Spreadsheet” Hammond’s Welsh terrier, Rex.
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Donald Trump and the triumph of certainty
An American conservative from the #NeverTrump movement looks ahead to the next four years.
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The fallacy of hope: Hisham Matar’s painful return
An unforgettable memoir charting the Libyan-British author’s homecoming after years in exile.
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Johnny Marr’s rock’n’roll spirit is set free in his new autobiography
The Smith’s star reveals little of his shared past with Morrissey in this enjoyable book which charts his later…
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“Trump’s career politician opponents were tidy-minded“
Erica Wager reviews Tim Harford’s Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World.
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Why John Berger is the least theoretical Marxist on Earth
Andrew Marr on the work of the award-winning left-wing writer and artist at 90.
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Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises is a significant achievement
There is a nervous energy in her writing which drives this relatively plotless novel forward.
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Travelling to Pakistan, fighting face-blindness and getting cross with myself
The Archbishop of Canterbury writes The Diary.
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Stars, stripes and bulletholes: America and the brutal business of its guns
With the election of Donald Trump the power of the US gun industry is being further consolidated.
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Forget fake news on Facebook – the real filter bubble is you
If people want to receive all their news from a single feed that reinforces their beliefs, there is little that…
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From the gold palace to the jobs for his children, Donald Trump is shaping up to be a classic autocrat
This might be the hardest thing to digest about Trump’s presidency: not how outrageous it is, but how banal.
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Reasons for calm in a post-Donald Trump world
Peter Wilby on class war, the reality of Trump and the secrets of Ed Balls’s Strictly success.
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Theresa May’s government will do well to do more than just manage
Faced with Brexit and a small majority, any change will be gradual.
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Leader: The deficit fetish is over
All of the original justifications offered for austerity have collapsed.
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