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‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his secrets | Chadwick Boseman

‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his secrets | Chadwick Boseman

💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Chadwick Boseman,Culture,Stage,Music,Black Panther,Film,Marvel,Cancer,Health 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Simone Ledward Boseman is reflecting on the five years that have passed since the death of her husband, actor and writer Chadwick Boseman. “The edges of grief get less sharp over time,” she says. “Five years definitely feels like a marker. I’ve had to gradually figure out how I talk about Chad. What do I want to share, and what do I feel comfortable sharing? Can I find something that I might want to share in the midst of something…
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‘I’m the psychedelic confessor’: the man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness | Books

‘I’m the psychedelic confessor’: the man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness | Books

💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Science and nature books,Philosophy books,Science,Psychology 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Several years ago, Michael Pollan had a disturbing encounter. The relentlessly curious journalist and author was at a conference on plant behaviour in Vancouver. There, he’d learned that when plants are damaged, they produce an anaesthetising chemical, ethylene. Was this a form of self-soothing, like the release of endorphins after an injury in humans? He asked František Baluška, a cell biologist, if it meant that plants might feel pain. Baluška paused, before answering: “Yes, they should feel pain.…
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Review of Leaving Home by Mark Haddon – A Painful Memoir of a Loveless Childhood | Biography and memoirs

Review of Leaving Home by Mark Haddon – A Painful Memoir of a Loveless Childhood | Biography and memoirs

💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Mark Haddon,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ATrying to psychoanalyze a literary work is a fool's errand, for obvious reasons: you're trying to assess inside the writer's head from inside your own, using an inherently deceptive device. The aim on their part, of course, is always to deceive, and often to deceive.However, sometimes the temptation is too great to resist. Mark Haddon, whose acerbic memoir describes a miserable, loveless childhood and an adulthood full of great obstacles, hit the literary major with 2003's The Curious Incident…
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Sajid Javid’s Home Color Review – From One Hostile Environment to Another | Biography and memoirs

Sajid Javid’s Home Color Review – From One Hostile Environment to Another | Biography and memoirs

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Politics books,Books,Culture,Biography books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SAjid Javid's memoir traces his journey from being a frightened child in the racist town of Rochdale in the 1970s to becoming a leading member of a political party that attacks and marginalizes people like him. However, it is an intimate, and at times poignant, family portrait, as well as a social history of race, class and ambition in late twentieth-century Britain.The opening chapters, with their omnipresent skinheads and taunts of "Run, cry, run," contain the book's most…
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TV Tonight: Jack Thorne’s epic Lord of the Flies | television

TV Tonight: Jack Thorne’s epic Lord of the Flies | television

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Lord of the Flies9pm, BBC OneRemarkably, this is the first television adaptation of William Golding's classic novel. Who better to shoulder this responsibility than Jack Thorne? It takes a faithful approach to the story in a four-part epic, which has the support of the Golding family. The film revolves around a group of schoolchildren who crash-land on an island in the Pacific Ocean while fleeing war during the 1950s. All the adults are dead and the boys must make…
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Amidst Shades Album Review – Robbie Hughes’ captivating tribute to Dowland steeped in delicious melancholy | classical music

Amidst Shades Album Review – Robbie Hughes’ captivating tribute to Dowland steeped in delicious melancholy | classical music

✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: COn Dowland died 400 years ago this year, and we'd be lucky indeed if there were many other compelling tributes like this one from soprano Ruby Hughes, lutenist Jonas Nordberg, and da Gamba violinist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann. The music is by no means all of Dowland's music – in fact, the recording takes its title from a song by Purcell, one of its most memorable pieces being a wonderful version of the Corpus Christi Carol as set by Britten –…
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Fabiano do Nascimento and Vitor Santos Orchestra: Fela Review – Imaginative mood music from a virtuoso | music

Fabiano do Nascimento and Vitor Santos Orchestra: Fela Review – Imaginative mood music from a virtuoso | music

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOver the past decade, Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento has honed a sound so muscular and expansive, it might make you think the prolific soloist and collaborator had four hands plucking the six strings of his instrument. His 14 recordings since his 2015 debut Dança do Tempo include everything from a tender duet album with saxophonist Sam Gendel, The Room, to the electronically influenced Aquàticos with producer E Ruscha V, and the rhythmic drum textures of Cavejaz. At Villa, Nascimento leans toward…
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Danny L. Harley: Cerulean Review – A Serious Homage to 20th Century Bands or a Bad Imitation? | music

Danny L. Harley: Cerulean Review – A Serious Homage to 20th Century Bands or a Bad Imitation? | music

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Caroline Polachek,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Cerulean is a confusing business. Billed as Danny L Harle's debut album, it certainly isn't – his actual debut album, Harlecore, came out in 2021, though Cerulean is markedly different from its predecessor, in at least one respect. It's a significant guest list, which includes Clairo, Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, MNEK and more, and is a reflection of Harle's rise to the big leagues of pop production: he's worked with Polachek before, as well as Florence + the Machine and Dua Lipa…
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Review of Helen of Lire by McKenna Goodman – A perfect fairy tale for our times | imaginary

Review of Helen of Lire by McKenna Goodman – A perfect fairy tale for our times | imaginary

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThere has never been a better time for man, the hero of Helen of Nowhere, to be a new transcendentalist. As a university professor, the lessons he imparts include encouraging his students to turn away from city politics and “the tools of human construction” to pursue the purity of nature. Humans believe that doing so may require “an innate ability to simply engage being“Outside arbitrary institutions of knowledge, such as the university.Man is a good man, or so we hear. He notices,…
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Delve into Freud, follow Gwen John home and watch Giacometti melt – The Week in Art | Art and design

Delve into Freud, follow Gwen John home and watch Giacometti melt – The Week in Art | Art and design

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekLucian Freud: Drawing In drawingDelve into the vision of this great artist with an exhibition that follows his photographic process from paper to canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London, from 12 February to 4 Mayalso appearGwen John: Strange beautyOne of the most original and original British artists of the early 20th century brings it all back to her native Wales. Read the review. National Museum Cardiff, from 7 February to 28 JuneLinda Benglis and GiacomettiThe artist who subverts…
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