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Review of the Week: Sessa live at Rich Mix

Review of the Week: Sessa live at Rich Mix

As Brazilian music enjoys a resurgence in Britain, São Paulo’s rising star troubadour visits a rainy London and lifts the crowd to a higher, happier plane, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson

Culture

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We’ve found the dog... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

We’ve found the dog... but lost our privacy: how Ring’s Super Bowl ad went viral for the wrong reasons

The smart doorbell company’s heartwarming story of helping find a lost pet was quickly called out by viewers as a chilling demonstration of high tech surveillance, writes Michaela Makusha

Tech

Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

Noor Murad’s Bahraini chicken and vegetable stew

The food writer and Ottolenghi collaborator shares a hearty and flavourful saloonat dajaj from her Gulf homeland

Food

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The Recommender: Olia Hercules

The Recommender: Olia Hercules

The British-based Ukrainian chef and author reveals what’s on her current cultural menu

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Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless

Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless

The problem with Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is not the mad casting or that it’s unfaithful to the novel; it’s that it isn’t true to the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones

Culture

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A teenager was hounded until she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

A teenager was hounded until she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.

The suicide of 16-year-old Princess Dickson came after incessant targeting on the anonymous influencer gossip forum. The commenters – mainly professional women – should be ashamed, writes Dr Jessica Taylor

Tech

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Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile, and we all live in his world

Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile, and we all live in his world

In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all is that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Politics

The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

The best culture to check out this week – from a luminous show of Lucian Freud’s drawings to Lisa McGee’s hilarious follow-up to Derry Girls – as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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‘I wanted an Iraqi film where soldiers are not the heroes’: director Hasan Hadi on his captivating debut The President's Cake

‘I wanted an Iraqi film where soldiers are not the heroes’: director Hasan Hadi on his captivating debut The President's Cake

Growing up under Saddam Hussein’s rule, the director’s dream of a movie career seemed a world away. Now, as his acclaimed film about a schoolgirl tasked with baking a cake for the dictator is released, he talks to British-Iraqi journalist Arwa Haider

Film

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