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Giselle Bellicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe are among speakers at Hay Festival 2026 | books

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Hay festival,Culture,Festivals,Wales,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Organizers have announced that Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Giselle Bellicot are among the key names appearing at Hay Festival 2026.The UK's iconic literary festival has now revealed its full programme, featuring more than 500 events taking place from May 21-31 in Hay-on-Wye, Powys.A wide range of notable writers will appear, including Ian McEwan, Maggie O'Farrell, Colm Tóibin, Ali Smith, Elizabeth Strut, Matt Haig, Douglas Stewart, Samantha Harvey, Val MacDiarmid and Ocean Fong. Also appearing on the literary…

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And Toto, Timothy? Backlash mounts over Chalamet Snaps at opera and ballet | Timothée Chalamet

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Timothée Chalamet,Oscars 2026,Film,Ballet,Opera,Marty Supreme,Stage,Culture,Classical music,Music,US news,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Academy Award-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis added her disapproval of the chorus protesting Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet's comments about the importance of opera and ballet.The Marty Supreme star has sparked major backlash for his comments during a CNN/Variety video chat with Matthew McConaughey, which was recorded on February 24."I don't want to do ballet or opera," Chalamet told his Interstellar co-star. "Things that are like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares…

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‘A lot of comedians don’t have a sense of humor’: Jack Dee on creating Loser Lead Balloon Rick Splaine | culture

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Jack Dee, creator and co-writer, played Rick SplaineI was doing a lot of stand-up comedy, working with other comedy writers. I was interested in the relationship between writer and performer. I wondered: What if the writer was funnier than the performer? I approached Pete Sinclair, who I'd been writing with for a long time, and said, "What do you think?" BBC4 commissioned a pilot.We developed the world of Rick Splaine and his relationship with his writer and the audience. The…

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Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’ | film

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Quentin Tarantino,Race,Pulp Fiction,Samuel L Jackson,Spike Lee,Culture,World news,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Pulp Fiction and Pulp Fiction star Rosanna Arquette said she found Quentin Tarantino's use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction "racist and creepy."In an interview with The Sunday Times, Arquette said of the film, in which she plays the tattooed and pierced wife of syringe-using drug dealer Eric Stoltz: "It's an iconic film, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I'm over using the N-word – I hate it. I can't stand…

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Bad Voodoo Review – The horror of an escaped convict worthy of a ghost train at an amusement park | film

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Horror films,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WI meet horror heroine Abigail (Christina Moody) several years after losing her two daughters in a car accident. One fateful night, a police officer visits Abigail to tell her that she might want to lock up on an extra note: he has a report of some escaped convicts in the area, and indeed there are no prizes for guessing that criminals will soon show up at Abigail's house. What happens next at least has the virtue of being a somewhat…

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‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive shown in New York | Jack Kerouac

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jack Kerouac,Books,Photography,Art,Art and design books,Art and design,Culture,Allen Ginsberg,William Burroughs,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Columbia University ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAmong the great literary myths, the legend of Jack Kerouac is often reduced to the atmosphere of the open road, a cigarette, a post-war rebel leaning against an old car – a masculine archetype of rebellion and hedonism. Kerouac's 1957 book On the Road was the bible of the beat and records generation, in its stunningly unfiltered prose, and its travels across the United States with fellow writers Allen Ginsberg, William S.…

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Great Arc Review – A Visionary Architect Crushed by Prestige Politics | film

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Biopics,Drama films,Period and historical films,Paris,Architecture,Art and design,Culture,France,World news,Xavier Dolan,Europe 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAt first glance, Stephane Demoustier's new drama about the construction of the Arch of Defense in Paris seems to belong to the last group of what we might call French brand heritage pictures, which includes the likes of Eiffel 2021 or The Widow of Clicquot 2023. But adapted from the 2016 novel La Grande Arche by Laurence Cossé, the film is less a story of cultural triumph than a testament to a failure, or…

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Suburban spies who sold nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Spying on spiesThe other side of the spy ring - the communications experts - have developed the perfect cover story. To their neighbors in the quiet suburbs of London, Peter and Helen Kruger were antique booksellers specializing in Americana and housewives. This was the perfect cover for their activities because it explained their regular trading trips abroad through their books, even behind the Iron Curtain. Inside their apparently nondescript house, they have built an advanced communications center equipped with a hidden radio transmitter and microdot…

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“Four teenagers in their thirties!” Beloved New York comedy troupe Simple Town lands in London | comedy

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen "New York's cult favorite sketch group" (according to the blurb) visits the UK, we might imagine we'll get the next big thing. But at the end of a transatlantic video call with three-quarters of the residents of the “Simple City” four-piece, I was disabused of this naivete. “We sometimes meet with production companies in the UK, who see us and think: ‘These guys could be a great bridge to the US market,’” says Sam Lanier, one of them. “But what they…

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“Even when the world collapses, life goes on”: The Return of the Indetronica Legends The Notwist | music

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Germany,Culture,Europe,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I“It went very quickly,” says Markus Asher. “We've never been so fast with a record.” He's sitting on the end of a sofa in Notwist's Munich studio. On the other side is his brother Micah Asher. Beside them, Siko Baek, who joined the band in 2014, balances on a chair. For a group known for meticulous studio skill, speed is an unfamiliar sensation. For most of their careers, Notwests worked slowly, arranging, revising, and rethinking, as if wary of committing too…

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