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Readers’ top 100 novels of all time | Fiction

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture,Fiction in translation 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 100by Anthony PowellWilliam Wood, Alberta, Canada, 68, retired art historian: “A series of novels that concerns several specific tiers of English society in the first three-quarters of the 20th century – upper class, bohemian, military, political – with comic brio, melancholy and knowing social analyses.”=93by Hanya YanagiharaHeather, Sydney, Australia, 40, engineer: “Devastating. I never want to read this again, yet I will never forget it.”by Anthony DoerrRoger Paine, Boulder, Colorado, US, 84, retired: “History is brought fully to life in…

‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling | Children and teenagers

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children and teenagers,Books,Teen books,Illustration,Culture,Quentin Blake ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of its kind anywhere in the world: a permanent national home for an art form that shapes everything from children’s books and political cartoons to animation, fashion, advertising and digital culture. Part museum, part gallery and part creative laboratory, the centre represents an extraordinary attempt to drag illustration out of the margins and finally place…

Violet Grohl review: Be Sweet to Me – Alternative rock hits the segment | music

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Dave Grohl,Pop and rock ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'I“I'll eat your liver,” Violet Grohl threatens on 595, a rock-inspired alternative rock single that sounds like it was made for MTV in the '90s. The deadpan verses give way to a big, sombre, deliberately sleazy chorus, ending with blown guitar and raucous feedback: part Veruca Salt, part Stone Age Queens. Despite only being 20 years old, Grohl has the rock 'n' roll credentials for her bouncing sound. Violet, the eldest daughter of Foo Fighters' Dave, had a rare…

Arriving late and making Helen Mirren wait: Has Tom Hardy been fired from MobLand? | television

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Tom Hardy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you're familiar with the Paramount+ MobLand series, these past few days will be an absolute revelation. Finally, when everyone thought it would never be possible, something exciting happened. Unfortunately, that didn't happen on screen.Instead, rumors are circulating that Tom Hardy has been fired. About a week ago, Book reported that Hardy left the set of MobLand after clashing with the cast and crew. As it stands, it's been pushed back a bit - partly because Paramount never greenlit…

TV Tonight: The strange and wild story of kidnapped racehorse Shergar | TV and radio

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Shergar: Racehorse and IRA8pm on Channel 4 “Someone comes up with the idea that they're going to kidnap a racehorse.” In 1983, Shergar was the most valuable horse in the world, worth around £10 million. But with the IRA in need of cash, three masked men with automatic rifles robbed him and demanded a ransom. The extraordinary story is told by racing insiders including commentator Derek Thompson and journalist Lisa Oliver. Holly RichardsonBritain's Got Talent: The Final Live Stream7pm on…

If you want to run your first marathon in your 50s, it helps to be chased by zombies | games

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Marathon running,Running,Fitness,Life and style,Smartphones,Mobile games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AWhen I was 56, running my first marathon, an old, fat, balding father, surrounded by millennials in body-hugging Lycra and smiles that looked like they were the product of artificial intelligence. But I'm ahead of them. Because they're just competing for positions and personal bests, and I'm being chased by zombies.The black dog of depression hit me around the time of my last birthday. I haven't felt like I've achieved anything notable in forever. I used to exercise,…

Virginia Evans: “I loved books about things that couldn’t exist.” imaginary

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: My first memory is readingI'm not sure what we were reading — "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams or the poems in "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein — but I was undoubtedly with my sister, who is two years older than me, and who has been my role model for being a reader. I imagine us in the back of our family car or lying on our twin beds in the room we share.My favorite book growing upI loved the…

Review of Miss You, Love You – Allison Janney’s affecting old-school grief drama | Drama movies

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Drama films,Film,Allison Janney,Culture,Comedy films,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HHollywood is currently in a strange but strangely exciting place, where no one is quite sure what kinds of “movies they don't make anymore” that they should start making again. We've seen period epics like Oppenheimer, sultry thrillers like The Housemaid, and female-led workplace comedies like The Devil Wears Prada 2 all become huge hits, and we're in the middle of a blockbuster year at the box office, trending toward pre-pandemic totals.But around the edges or between the cracks,…

Add to playlist: Duo Ear’s weird, distorted electronics and the best new tracks of the week | music

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from Hudson Valley, New York and LondonRecommended if you like Books, Lily, World Peace DMTthe next Rumspringa was released on May 29Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan recorded their first-ever song "Ear" on an iPhone in the Bard College library. That song, “Nerves,” pits their whiny voices against weightless strings and barely perceptible drums. Just as it seems about to float away completely, the track is suddenly overtaken by a screaming bass synth that splits the agonizing call of the first act into…

‘I shouldn’t be allowed to do interviews’: Nish Kumar on controversy and clashes with comics | Nish Kumar

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Nish Kumar,TV comedy,Comedy,Culture,Television,Stage 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nIsh Kumar - a mop of curly hair, wearing a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, a sumptuous cake in hand - sits centimeters from me in the conference room of his advertising offices in Soho, central London. However, there is another comedian who is turning heads. On the wall is a huge poster promoting Prime Video's Last One Laughing UK - and looming above us from the center of the frame is the show's host, Jimmy Carr.This seems, let's just say, a…