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Killian Fox

Photo of Killian Fox

Killian Fox

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    Graphic novel of the month: The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart

    Two middle-aged couples agree to live with each other other in a rambling rural pile in this nuanced social satire

    Sat, 4 Apr 2026

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    The big picture: Dong Wei’s doomscrolling ducklings

    The Chinese photographer’s image reveals China’s service workers alone together at lunch

    Fri, 3 Apr 2026

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    Charlotte Riley: ‘Guess How Much I Love You is one of the best plays I’ve seen’

    The actress and playwright chooses her cultural highlights, including a visceral Robert Aramayo performance, interactive art and nostalgic tea

    Sun, 29 Mar 2026

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    The big picture: On the border with Israel

    Rania Matar’s photograph of a Lebanese woman is revealing due to what it keeps hidden

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026

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    ‘I woke up and there was a centipede in my bed’

    Kirsten Campbell on the inspiration for her winning entry in the Rachel Cooke prize

    Sat, 21 Mar 2026

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    The big picture: Seungho Kim’s ‘perfect’ fried egg

    The South Korean photographer’s shot of a culinary success is a marvel of ordinary, imperfect family life

    Fri, 20 Mar 2026

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    Eddie Marsan: ‘I’m addicted to podcasts – The Rest Is History is my favourite’

    The actor chooses his cultural highlights, including Adam Curtis’s Shifty, a book on Abraham Lincoln and a satirical film about the prince of Egypt

    Sun, 15 Mar 2026

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    The big picture: Laura McCluskey’s relaxed relatives

    The photographer from the Isle of Sheppey captures her grandparents’ contentment the morning after a party

    Sat, 14 Mar 2026

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    Djamel White: ‘Dublin gangsters have a folkloric quality’

    The author on exploring Ireland’s criminal underbelly in his debut novel All Them Dogs

    Thu, 12 Mar 2026

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    The big picture: Snapshot of an anonymous life

    Two women erupt in glee in this image by an unknown photographer – but what exactly are they laughing at?

    Sat, 7 Mar 2026

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    Russell Maliphant: ‘There’s a brutal humanity to Lee Miller’s photography’

    The choreographer chooses his cultural highlights, including Pina Bausch’s Sweet Mambo, Nick Cave’s ‘intriguing’ music and the connections between trees

    Fri, 6 Mar 2026

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    Hasan Piker: ‘The left should be better at manufacturing outrage’

    The ‘Joe Rogan for progressives’ talks politics to his three million online followers for seven hours a day. He explains why

    Fri, 6 Mar 2026

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    Graphic novel of the month: Dear Historian by Joff Winterhart

    The author of Days of the Bagnold Summer returns with a delightful odd-couple story about two women bringing the past to life

    Thu, 5 Mar 2026

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    The last of the great London squats

    A portrait of an alternative community, with a radio station and Bob Marley for a neighbour

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026

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    The big picture: The artist and the astronaut

    Irish artist Rhiannon Adam confronts broken dreams of space travel in a photograph that subverts the view of an all-American male discipline

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026

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    Lisa McGee: ‘I’ll have a really good idea then realise it’s an episode of Columbo’

    The Derry Girls writer chooses her cultural highlights, including a brave memoir, a Conor McPherson play and an ‘off-centre’ podcast

    Sun, 22 Feb 2026

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    The big picture: Larry Sultan’s circus trick

    The American photographer’s image from the backstage area of a circus in Belarus is fabulously uncanny

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026

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    Óliver Laxe: ‘The film is alive inside me. It’s intense’

    The director on the ‘shock therapy’ of his latest movie, Sirāt, why he is drawn to Morocco, and wanting actors to ‘jump to the abyss’ with him

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026

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    Bill Callahan: ‘Lily Allen splatters blood and guts all over the walls’

    The singer-songwriter’s cultural highlights, including West End Girl, going ‘all in’ on Bugonia, and the ‘Wall Street of the South’

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026

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    The big picture: Kerala’s defiant bodybuilder

    Keerthana Kunnath’s photograph of a female bodybuilder shows strength in the face of conservative norms

    Sun, 15 Feb 2026

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