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The Recommender: Gwenno

The Recommender: Gwenno

The Welsh-Cornish singer, whose summer tour starts next month, picks her current cultural favourites

Music

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Review of the Week: Rose of Nevada

Review of the Week: Rose of Nevada

Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s drama about ghost ships and gentrification, all shot on 16mm film, is eerie, disorienting and his most audience-pleasing film to date, writes Ellen E Jones

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Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gaza's journalists are forced to tread on our pain, and go out and report’

Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gaza's journalists are forced to tread on our pain, and go out and report’

Al Jazeera’s Wael al-Dahdouh, who returned to work within days of his family being killed by an Israeli strike, recalls his grief, determination and sense of isolation at covering a war while being personally attacked

News

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Philippa Perry: Sleep makes the world safer. That’s why it’s so alarming that Trump is up all night

Philippa Perry: Sleep makes the world safer. That’s why it’s so alarming that Trump is up all night

I know what it’s like to make confused and impulsive judgments in the small hours. But I’m not the one threatening a nation before breakfast, writes the Nerve’s psychotherapist and agony aunt

Philippa Perry

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

This week’s top cultural picks – from Deborah Levy’s elusive new book to rapper Loyle Carner's acting debut in Mint – as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

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Crop tops and thongs: how Epstein's friend Les Wexner sexualised children's fashion

Crop tops and thongs: how Epstein's friend Les Wexner sexualised children's fashion

The paedophile’s close professional relationship with clothing billionaire Les Wexner coincided with a dark, Lolita-like period in fashion when girls were invited to age up and women to age down, writes Deborah Frances-White

Culture

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Stewart Lee: A weak parent who couldn’t report their child to the police? Sounds like Queen Elizabeth II

Stewart Lee: A weak parent who couldn’t report their child to the police? Sounds like Queen Elizabeth II

A mood seems to be growing on the right of politics to deport the relatives of serious criminals. But of course they don’t mean in every case

Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell went in pursuit of the real story of Britain

Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell went in pursuit of the real story of Britain

The 6 Music DJ and writer, whose new book explores her mixed-race heritage and the ancient myth of ‘Albion’, tells Michaela Makusha everyone has a stake in a complex, nuanced country

Q&A

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Review of the Week: The Music Is Black: A British Story at V&A East

Review of the Week: The Music Is Black: A British Story at V&A East

An ambitious exhibition launching the V&A's brand new outpost shies away from the hardest parts of the social history behind the tunes, but tells its story with verve, writes music critic Damien Morris

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