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Beauty That There Is No Other Option: Week in Rave Reviews | culture

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...beautyDisney+Summarize in a sentence Ryan Murphy is back at his best with a horror series about a deadly sexually transmitted virus that also makes people beautiful - leading to several scenes of exploding supermodels.What our reviewer said "A return to Murphy's delightful quality (and a return, thematically, to some of his best work, Nip/Tuck)." Lucy ManganRead the full reviewChoose from the restHe stealsPrime VideoSophie Turner in Steal. Photography: Ludovic Robert/PrimeSummarize in a sentence Sophie Turner stars…

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‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood | Mark Haddon

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Mark Haddon,Books,Culture,Autobiography and memoir,Biography books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I see washed-out photographs of English life in the 60s and 70s – cardiganed grandmothers eating roadside picnics beside Morris Minors, pale men sunbathing in shoes and socks on stripy deckchairs, Raleigh Choppers and caged budgerigars and faux leather pouffes – I feel a wave of what can’t properly be called nostalgia, because the last thing I’d want is to return to that age and those places where I was often profoundly unhappy and from which I’d…

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From Saipan to Take That: Your complete entertainment guide for next week | culture

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaSaipanOut nowAs the Irish national team descend on a small Pacific island to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, an epic feud looms between manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) and star player Roy Keane (Eanna Hardwicke), in this sports drama loosely inspired by an infamous real-life feud.There is no other choiceOut nowKorean writer Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) taps Squid Game's Lee Byung-hun to helm this dark comedy about a man who has recently been made redundant but is…

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My cultural awakening: The Queen’s song helped me liberate myself from communist Cuba queen

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Queen,Brian May,Freddie Mercury,Culture,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThroughout my childhood and teenage years growing up in Cuba in the 1980s, Fidel Castro's presence, his overt influence on politics, was everywhere—on posters, on walls, in speeches that could last four hours straight. It was difficult to escape the feeling of political and personal siege.I was raised to believe in communism, and have done so for a long time. I even applied twice to join the Young Communist League, but was rejected because I was not “militant” enough: code…

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TV Tonight: The flawless prison drama is the number one must-see show of the year | TV and radio

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Waiting to go out9.25pm, BBC OneDennis Kelly's prison drama, the first must-see show of the year, reaches the halfway mark. Philosophy teacher Dan (Josh Finnan) is feeling good about life again, but his unresolved past with his father catches up with him. Meanwhile, on the inside, it's Dries' (Francis Lovehall) release date, but there's a mix-up in his paperwork. Holly RichardsonBest Houses in New Zealand with Phil Spencer5.25pm, Channel 4"I'll tell you what: New Zealanders are very serious about their…

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Havergal Brian: Gothic Album Review – Uli Schmidt tames a spacious and whimsical score | classical music

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture,London Symphony Orchestra 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HThe plain Brian was often viewed with suspicion, and his expansive gothic symphony came closer like climbing Mount Everest – just for the sake of being there – rather than being taken seriously as a milestone in 20th-century British music. To mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, Heritage has snubbed this 1980 live BBC broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Danish conductor Uli Schmidt, the fourth recording of the complete work to enter the catalogue.Artwork…

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Can We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry – A Dazzling Puzzle Box Debut | imaginary

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn a medieval palace, an unnamed king chafes under the weight of new and unwanted power. His uncertain fate is embodied in the present-day fantasy of an anonymous curator of unspecified gender, hired by the palace to plaster some of its rooms for public display in the wake of an unspeakable personal tragedy.You'll probably either be completely fascinated or deeply disturbed by this summary of poet Rebecca Berry's debut novel, Can We Feed the King, an overly ornate puzzle box of…

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Ari Lennox: The Vacancy Review – The R&B pro’s most fun and entertaining outing yet | music

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,R&B 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ari Lennox is one of R&B's most prominent contemporary artists, preferring a combination of lush jazz, soul, and '90s hip-hop to the looser sound pushed by contemporaries SZA and Kehlani. But in some songs on her new album, Vacancy, she makes it abundantly clear that tradition and brutality can coexist, with wonderfully bright results: on Under the Moon, she describes a lover as “vicious / like a werewolf / when you're in it” and proceeds to scream “moooooooooon” as if she were…

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Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse Review – Grief, Grace, and Memory in the Birth of a Lighthouse Folk | Popular music

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Folk music,Music,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe warm sounds of folk guitar provide the roots for Tessa Rose Jackson's debut album under her name, traveling through time from Bert Jansch to REM to Sharon Van Etten in every strum and squeak. Previously recording as Somebody, the Dutch-British musician has made three albums in the shadows of pop, but her fourth album – a grittier, grittier affair, produced alone in rural France – digs into ancestry, mortality and memory.The artwork for "The Lighthouse" is by artist Tessa Rose…

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Custody: The Secret History of Mothers by Lara Vigel – Why Women Still Have to Fight for Their Children | History books

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: History books,Society books,Books,Culture,Children 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TNot surprisingly, his book on child custody is filled with pain. The pain of mothers separated from their children, of children wailing for their mothers, of adults who never got over the trauma of their youth, of young people forced to live out the struggles of their elders. Lara Vigel casts her net across history, fiction, reports, and memoirs, and while her research is undoubtedly impressive and her candor moving, she sometimes struggles to create a narrative that can bring…

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