‘All the books you write change you’: Maggie O’Farrell on Hamnet, Hollywood and family secrets
After the Oscars whirl around her Shakespeare film, the novelist answers the Nerve Q&A and talks about her new book, which explores the hidden lives of her relatives, pioneering mapmakers in 19th-century Ireland. Interview by Lisa O'Kelly
Q&A
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Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them
The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need, writes the author and Nerve columnist
Tech
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‘We’re shocked’: female screenwriters write to BBC over plan for male writer to create Sarah Everard drama
A letter signed by 400 female writers in 24 hours has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories. Here it is in full
TV
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‘They are weapons of war’: Gisèle Pelicot on the tech platforms that facilitate rape
The woman whose courage at trial transformed the debate around abuse talks to Lucia Osborne-Crowley about survival, reclaiming confidence – and shutting down the tools of sexual exploitation
News
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What Marilyn would have done next...
A lifelong Monroe fan, the Nerve’s film critic Ellen E Jones has made a BBC radio series to mark the centenary of the actor’s birth. Here, she imagines the future that might have opened up for a media-savvy artist ‘vastly ahead of her time’
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