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The best culture to check out this week – from TV's new Welsh coast noir to a profound book about how we eat - as seen, enjoyed and recommended by our team of editors and writers

Culture

I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered

Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when I approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, I was threatened with removal, writes Adele Walton

Tech

'There has to be a way to actively oppose these thugs without losing ourselves': novelist George Saunders on life in America now

The Booker prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, whose new novel imagines the last hours of an oil tycoon, talks to Dorian Lynskey about Trump, truth and how to reconcile empathy with political opposition

Culture

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

Palantir

Actor-director Cherien Dabis: "Cinema plays a huge role in shifting perspectives"

The Palestinian-American’s work ranges from the hit TV comedy Only Murders in the Building to much more personal films. She talks to Guy Lodge about All That's Left of You, a shattering drama following three generations of a family torn apart by the 1948 Nakba

Culture

Stewart Lee: Entertainers can’t save truth. Or Greenland. But at least we can boycott the ‘Trump Kennedy Center’

Since the Washington venue was renamed, many veteran musicians have cancelled their gigs, and now Bruce Springsteen has dropped a new protest song. They’ve seen this America before

Stewart Lee

Review of the Week: Our Town

The Welsh National Theatre’s first large-scale production, currently on tour with artistic director Michael Sheen in the lead role, brings a shimmering Celtic quality to Thornton Wilder’s tale of smalltown America, writes Jude Rogers

Reviews

The Recommender: Lyse Doucet

The BBC’s chief international correspondent shares the highlights of her whirlwind cultural month

Culture

Kai’s fish fingers and homemade mayonnaise

Chef Jess Murphy, from New Zealand by way of Ireland, shares the dish she invented for fun and is now the bestseller at her Galway restaurant

Food