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Books
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Paperback of the week: Migraine by Samuel Fisher
The author’s third novel unfolds in a climate-altered London where everyone suffers chronic pain and neural networks connect us like social media
Alice Hattrick: ‘Embroidery is a form of resistance’
The author on being a ‘non-objective researcher’ in their work to reclaim the story of the Victorian designer May Morris, the erosion of queer rights, and why they sew
The future of Farageism
Peter Chappell’s chilling vision of Reform taking power is a bracing corrective to Michael Ashcroft’s fawning biography of Nigel Farage
Film
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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Birds of War, Minions & Monsters and more
Matt Johnson’s time-travel comedy is gloriously eccentric, while the latest Minions instalment is the strongest and silliest yet
The Invite is a savagely funny study of marital despair
Olivia Wilde makes a resounding return to form with an equal parts uproarious and mortifying sex comedy about a simmering dinner party
How David Bowie’s touring and a love of comics led to Duncan Jones’s new sci-fi adventure
The writer and director’s latest film, Rogue Trooper, is an adaptation from British comic 2000AD, which Jones discovered during his dad’s hectic schedule
Art and architecture
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Theatre and dance
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The Surge celebrates the unconventional life of Sinéad O’Connor
Performed by a cast with a combined age of more than 500 years, Sonya Tayeh’s bold work pays tribute to the singer’s defiant spirit
Archduke – Franz Ferdinand assassination drama is a misfire
Rajiv Joseph’s new play about the impoverished young killers whose actions sparked the First World War is starved of meaning
Bill Pullman: ‘British audiences pull back a bit, but the applause at the end means so much’
The veteran Hollywood actor on his return to the stage, his passion for fruit farming, and the secret to his marriage of 39 years
