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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Science fiction books,Fantasy books,Horror books,Culture,Fiction ✅ Key idea: The Halcyon Years by Alistair Reynolds (Gollancz, £25)Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut who was the first man in space, is reborn as a private eye aboard the spacecraft Halcyon as it approaches the end of a centuries-long voyage. Yuri knows that he first died in the 1960s, long before the technology needed to launch such advanced spaceships existed, but he believes his remains have been preserved and stored for future resurrections. Life on the ship is modeled after a…

💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,Culture 📌 Main takeaway: from EdinburghRecommended if you like Dry Cleaning, Massive Attack, Nick's Cavethe next “Warm Days in December” is out now, and a new EP is scheduled for release in early 2026As a fixture in Edinburgh's arts-turned-performance scene, Acolyte's strange, earthy psychedelia is as likely to be found onstage at the Traverse Theater as it is in the steamy-windowed brew of Leith Walk. Swirling basslines and poet Iona Lee's velvety, powerful voice conjure a sense of slow hypnosis – and just like their music, Acolyte…

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ Key idea: Exhibition of the weekTo improvise the mountainIllustrator Lynette Yiadom-Boakye depicts fictional people in makeup settings. Where does she get her disturbing thoughts from? Here she reveals her inspirations, from Walter Sickert to Bas-Jan Adair. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 25 Januaryalso appearThe sleepersHelen Cammock, Tracey Emin and others explore what it means to sleep and not be able to sleep. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, until 22 FebruaryHarold GosneyA closer look at how this Yorkshire sculptor works with bronze and other materials…

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Robert Plant,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Folk music,Led Zeppelin,Southbank Centre ✅ Key idea: forBetween songs, Robert Plant describes his latest project, Saving Grace, as hailing "from the West Side of common sense." It's a self-effacing observation but he has a point. Most rock stars of his caliber and stature (78 next year, somewhere between 200 million and 300 million albums sold with Led Zeppelin) would be there to assert their status by touring hits. But as anyone who followed Plant's post-Zeppelin career will tell you, the live option didn't seem…