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‘The damage was much worse than I had imagined’: the shocking inside story of Salman Rushdie’s survival | Film

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Salman Rushdie,Alex Gibney,Culture,Books 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Eliza Griffiths was at home in New York, drinking a second cup of coffee one August morning in 2022, when her phone rang. She answered it to a frantic friend, who told her the man she had married just a year earlier, and who had set off the previous night for a speaking engagement nearly 400 miles away, had been hurt. “What kind of hurt?” she panicked. Turning on the television, she was assaulted by blurry images of chaos…

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‘Led us down such a dark path’: documentary explores how 9/11 changed America | Documentary films

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,September 11 2001,Netflix,Film,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Twenty-five years on, memory is giving way to history. Soon the US will cross the point where half its population were born after 11 September 2001 or were too young to remember the day that terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in northern Virginia and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.“When I do that math, I get to the bomb at Hiroshima – that’s how distant it is,” says Brian Knappenberger, 56, director…

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How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade | Publishing

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Publishing,Culture,Fiction,Books,Social media,Digital media,TikTok,YouTube 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Think about the last book you bought. How did you choose it? Was it from a recommendation, a review, a TikTok video? Did the cover grab you, were you swayed by the quotes on the front, or did you just happen to spot it on an appealing table as you walked into the shop? Did you think about all the nudges that led you to that decision – by the publisher, the bookseller or that person you follow on Insta?The…

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The 50 best TV shows to watch this autumn | Television

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Drama,TV comedy,Documentary ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Lycett ArmsWayward and chaotic, in the grand tradition of The Word and TFI Friday, Late Night Lycett proved that Joe Lycett had fully inherited Friday nights on Channel 4. Its follow-up sounds even more TFI-esque. The Lycett Arms is a real east London pub, open for just one hour a week, which required Lycett to train to be accredited with a level 2 award for personal licence holders. The show promises “top-drawer comedy entertainment from Joe and…

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‘9 to 5? She was full-on round the clock!’ Dolly Parton celebrated by kd lang, Peggy Seeger, Annie Lennox and more | Dolly Parton

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dolly Parton,Music,Culture,Country,Celebrity,Life and style,Americana 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: ‘Not just a big-bosomed singer of great songs’Shirley Collins, singer-songwriterI don’t really follow pop music or country and western very much, but Dolly Parton was always something special – separate from it all, in a way. She seemed absolutely indomitable. Coming from a large family in a mountain home and being brought up in poverty, she broke through to have this incredible career and you couldn’t help feeling fond of her. How she did it I don’t know,…

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Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton dies – latest updates | Dolly Parton

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dolly Parton,US news,Culture,Music,Country ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Dolly Parton's team confirms she died after 'brief battle with cancer'Dolly Parton’s team has confirmed the country music legend died after “after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer”.“Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,” the statement continued.US country music legend Dolly Parton died at the age of 80, her family announced on social media on 25 August 2026. Photograph: Chris Torres/EPARead the full report below:ShareUpdated at 08.06 CESTKey eventsHere’s some more…

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‘So many people say things about my appearance – it’s not normal’: Jorja Smith on burnout, body-shaming and finding freedom | Jorja Smith

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jorja Smith,Music,Culture,Dance music,R&B,Pop and rock 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: It is a sticky, sweltering July afternoon, and I have accidentally found myself at a wake with Jorja Smith. I’m told that the pub where we have met, in the leafiest part of leafy south-west London, is usually a safe bet for an inconspicuous table. But today, sweaty black suits carrying pints drift between tables, and long queues snake round the bar.Dressed in a simple tank top, bare-faced with her hair scraped back, Smith is waiting for me…

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The best books to read in August: new paperbacks from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie and Werner Herzog | Books

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Paperbacks,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Karl Ove Knausgård,Patricia Lockwood,Gary Shteyngart,Salman Rushdie,Nicola Sturgeon,Elizabeth Gilbert,Werner Herzog 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FictionFictionDream CountChimamanda Ngozi AdichieDream Count is billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making”. Composed of the interlocking stories of four women, Chiamaka (“Chia”), Zikora, Omelogor and Kadiatou, it is also quintessential Adichie: ambitious, astute and powered by an accumulation of feather-light sentences that build to devastating weight.The women are immigrants in the US. Chia, a travel writer, Zikora, a lawyer, and Omelogor, a former banker turned grad student, are…

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‘Are you ready for some filth?’ Julian Clary and more on comedy’s great smut explosion | Edinburgh festival 2026

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Edinburgh festival 2026,Stage,Culture,Edinburgh festival,Theatre,Julian Clary,Comedy,Comedy,Sex 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: On a street in Edinburgh, a woman I’ve only just met is quizzing me on my sexual fantasies. “Do you want softcore or hardcore? What positions do you prefer?” asks Cameryn Moore, a former phone sex operator turned playwright from the US, along with other, less printable, questions.Her business plan is simple: for £20, punters can tell Moore what turns them on. She will then bash out a piece of bespoke erotic fiction for them on her…

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom | Books

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Education,AI (artificial intelligence),Technology books,Technology ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality and its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history. With it you need no armies of typists and artists to spread your propaganda. It can enable mass surveillance and thereby put shackles on those who seek to resist you. Its lethal autonomous weapons…

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