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James McAvoy: 'I'm always going to try and find the laughs'

James McAvoy: 'I'm always going to try and find the laughs'

The Scottish Hollywood actor – and now first-time director – answers the Nerve Q&A on fame, indie film-making and snogging an unexpected co-star. Interview by Hanna Flint

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Review of the week: Cry Baby by Vince Staples

Review of the week: Cry Baby by Vince Staples

Over a foreboding rock soundtrack, the California rapper delivers hard-edged, compelling social commentary on Trump, violence, Black stereotypes and more, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

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Ella Risbridger’s no-knife potato and prawn curry

Ella Risbridger’s no-knife potato and prawn curry

The bestselling cookbook writer shares a fresh and easy one-pot dinner – with no chopping-up required

Weekend Dish

The Recommender: Nilüfer Yanya

The Recommender: Nilüfer Yanya

The London-based singer-songwriter shares her latest cultural discoveries

Recommender

Philippa Perry: The spirit behind Peter Murrell’s spending spree isn’t greed

Philippa Perry: The spirit behind Peter Murrell’s spending spree isn’t greed

It’s normal for avaricious people to want a pen, a car, a watch, writes the Nerve’s cultural agony aunt. But what does it mean when, like Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, you buy the same status symbol over and over again?

Philippa Perry

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

This week’s top cultural picks – from the year’s buzziest horror film to Ann Patchett’s wryly entertaining new novel – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Hotlist

‘All the books you write change you’: Maggie O’Farrell on Hamnet, Hollywood and family secrets

‘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

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

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‘We’re shocked’: female screenwriters write to BBC over plan for male writer to create Sarah Everard drama

‘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

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