Review: Disclosure Day
A Spielberg alien movie is not to be missed, writes Ellen E Jones – especially when the extraterrestrials might offer an alternative to our fraught political reality
Reviews
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‘Literature is about digging, not putting on a show’: author Édouard Louis on writing as an act of working-class defiance
The French novelist’s unsparing autofiction about his poor and violent childhood is designed to challenge a leftwing establishment that is losing touch with those it represents, he tells Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Q&A
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The Recommender: Olivia Laing
The bestselling writer and novelist shares their current cultural favourites
Books
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At last, the fool’s bargain that the media struck with AI may be over
In a thunderous speech last week, the boss of the New York Times sounded a rallying call to news organisations to rise up against the theft of their work by Big Tech – and not before time, writes Branko Brkic
Tech
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Natasha Walter: if a far-right government was treating protesters like Labour is, there would be outrage
Activists have been detained for months without trial and declared terrorists. On Friday, four will be sentenced under egregious circumstances. We should be more alarmed that Palestine and climate campaigners are being treated like this in a social democracy, writes the author and columnist
Politics
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