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Great culture to check out this week – from Ralph Fiennes on irresistible form to a free Joseph Beuys exhibition - all recommended by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda

Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US government’s flirtation with fascist propaganda

Departments are under fire for social media content that references far-right ideology and symbolism - and which seems increasingly explicit. John Mulholland rounds up the most shocking posts

Politics

The Recommender: Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods

The Recommender: Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods

The Nottingham duo's frontman picks his current cultural favourites

Culture

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Stewart Lee: It’s the Year of the Duck Rabbit - the two-faced mascot of political hypocrites everywhere

Stewart Lee: It’s the Year of the Duck Rabbit - the two-faced mascot of political hypocrites everywhere

Wittgenstein’s famous animal optical illusion from the 1950s is nowhere near as disorienting as trying to understand modern current affairs

Stewart Lee

How the ICE enforcement raids turbocharged an army of citizen journalists

How the ICE enforcement raids turbocharged an army of citizen journalists

The online documentation of ICE agents in the field via viral video footage is turning the tide of public opinion, and has seen the administration respond with highly stylised films of their own, writes John Mulholland

Politics

‘The actors felt like they were talking to her’: inside the making of The Voice of Hind Rajab

‘The actors felt like they were talking to her’: inside the making of The Voice of Hind Rajab

The acclaimed Gaza docudrama is constructed around the real-life call for help from a girl killed in an Israeli strike – a decision that made filming an intense experience, one of its producers, James Wilson, tells Jonathan Romney

Culture

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Review of the Week: Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Review of the Week: Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

The American photographer’s celebrated portrait series, being shown in full for the first time in the UK, is as raw and intimate on its 40th anniversary as it was when it first appeared, writes Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge

Reviews

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Ali Honour’s bean and mushroom stew

Ali Honour’s bean and mushroom stew

The Irish chef is a passionate campaigner for a better food system, and believes pulse-based recipes such as this warming winter dish are part of the solution

Food

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The Nerve Hotlist

The Nerve Hotlist

Great culture to check out this week – from a striking new album from Dry Cleaning to the devastating true story of a child killed in Gaza - all recommended by our team of editors and writers

Culture

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