Watkins should have been the ideal writer for this sympathetic take on new age spirituality and desert eco-activism – but the results are confusing
Rose, the protagonist of Claire Vaye Watkins’s lates…
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‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton ⊖
Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can go
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‘It shatters my heart’: the fosters taking care of stressed former lab beagles ⊕
Hundreds of people applied to adopt beagles from a breeding facility – but ‘these are not ordinary dogs’, says one rescue worker
In May, 1,500 beagles were released from Ridglan Farms, a breeding and …
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Son of Nobody by Yann Martel review – Life of Pi author discovers a long-lost poem from Troy ○
An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel
In Yann Martel’s fifth novel, a Canadian clas…
Online abuse is silencing women on a staggering scale – it’s a democratic crisis | Sharon Kechula ⊖⊖
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The experience of a Kenyan politician who dared to have her babies abroad is far from unique, laws are not enough to make digital spaces safe for women
In March last year, soon after giving birth to h…
Reform’s temper tantrum about slavery reparations shows it doesn’t understand Britain’s place in the modern world | Kojo Koram ⊖⊖⊖
The party’s talk of visa bans for countries seeking reparative justice is not just undemocratic – it displays staggering ignorance about geopolitics
On 29 November 1781, Capt Luke Collingwood faced a …
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Príncipe Discos: how Black DJs from Lisbon’s suburbs made Europe’s most exciting record label ⊕⊕
From near-empty dancefloors to sold-out nights at Lisbon’s biggest club, the imprint has spent 15 years championing Afro-Portuguese beats, reshaping the city’s musical identity in the process
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‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks ⊖⊖
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It is an epic piece of music that literally falls apart – and it perfectly captured the end-of-days chaos after the tragedy. Composer William Basinski and musician Anohni recall its febrile birth in …
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My cultural awakening: ‘Thirteen influenced my hedonistic youth, until a psychotic episode ended it’ ⊕
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My teenage self was shy and miserable, before a coming-of-age film unleashed an adolescence of drink, sex and drugs. It was a years-long party that eventually came crashing down
At 13, what felt like …
Team GB’s Matt Weston leads golden charge as skeleton rivals unite behind banned Ukrainian ⊖
British racer poised for podium after opening rounds
Sledder turned in back-to-back Cortina track records
This was the race that will always be remembered for the one man who didn’t make the start. Exa…