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Banning leftwing activists from entering Britain: an illiberal move with a long history in this country | DK Renton ⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The cancellation of Cenk Uygur’s and Hasan Piker’s visas tells us that the home secretary’s powers to police speech are too broad

In August 1967, the activist Stokely Carmichael was banned from enteri…

72 days ago

A torn page bearing Dylan’s lyrics for the 1967 song I’m Not There is set to go under the hammer in April when it could fetch £40,000

Almost 60 years after it was first typed out by Bob Dylan, a torn …

84 days ago

The ruins of Tintern Abbey have inspired artists and poets. Now, the restoration of a historic inn has given visitors a perfect base for exploring this corner of Monmouthshire

Standing in Tintern Abbe…

86 days ago

A suburban headteacher navigates antisemitism in Gaza-outraged London in Jacobson’s latest novel

Howard Jacobson writes characters at their wits’ end; those characters are usually men, and those men a…

3 months ago

As the original On the Road scroll heads to auction, a new exhibition uncovers the private life of the Beat legend

Among great literary myths, the one of Jack Kerouac is often reduced to a vibe The op…

5 months ago

‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

On 19 De…

8 months ago

‘When I stopped to let him out, he was looking down. I didn’t know what he was doing. Turned out he was writing a poem about me. I still have it’

I drove a cab in New York for three decades. Riding ar…

9 months ago

In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother

Twelve minutes into an interview with Allen Ginsberg for the BBC’s Face to F…

11 months ago

Principality Stadium, Cardiff
The US singer-songwriter graduates to the UK’s biggest venues with a theatrical show to match, featuring a house on fire, Allen Ginsberg recitals and some very real tears

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12 months ago

The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan review – Timothy Leary’s right hand woman ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A key a protagonist of the psychedelic counterculture, Rosemary Woodruff lived a life every bit as fascinating as her husband’s

Of Timothy Leary, we know plenty. How, in the early 1960s, he gave LSD t…

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