The Nerve Hotlist
This week's top cultural picks – from the latest Almodóvar to Sam Smith’s ‘best album yet’ – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
Culture
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Jon Ronson: ‘The worst moments of my life are when I’m between stories’
As his new book The Castle is published, the author and journalist talks to Dorian Lynskey about male midlife crises, country life and why he’s written about his former friend Graham Linehan
Q&A
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Meta helped destroy my generation’s sense of self. An $18bn settlement is not punishment enough
For those, like me, who have lost loved ones to online harms, the spectacle of a historic lawsuit against a social media company has been bittersweet, writes Adele Walton
Tech
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The Recommender: author Meg Mason
The bestselling novelist and memoirist shares her latest cultural favourites
Culture
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Review of the Week: Erykah Badu & the Alchemist – Before The World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment
The neo-soul queen is back with her first full-length release in over a decade: a hazy, epic collaboration with the Alchemist that transports you with every listen, writes Kate Hutchinson
Reviews
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ICE’s tech enablers are already embedded in the British state
Palantir, Anduril, Cellebrite and others supply America’s deportation machine. They also hold UK contracts with the Home Office, MoD and police – offering surveillance capabilities that a Reform government would inherit. Max Colbert reports
Tech
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