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Review of the Week: The Smashing Machine

Review of the Week: The Smashing Machine

Film critic Ellen E Jones on Dwayne Johnson as real-life wrestler Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's elevated fight flick

Reviews

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Americans, welcome to Britain and your strange new world

Americans, welcome to Britain and your strange new world

In the first of her monthly columns, our ‘cultural agony aunt’, psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry, on the challenges facing the growing numbers of US citizens moving to the UK

Philippa Perry

THE RECOMMENDER: HARRIS DICKINSON

THE RECOMMENDER: HARRIS DICKINSON

The actor and director on his current cultural favourites

Culture

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THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

THE NERVE WEEKEND DISH

Syrian chef Imad Alarnab adds aubergines to shakshuka, the classic recipe ‘that represents the whole Middle East’

Weekend Dish

The Recommender: Nicole Kidman

The Recommender: Nicole Kidman

To kick off our new weekly slot, the Oscar-winning actor shares the culture she's been loving lately

Culture

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Stewart Lee: Here’s how Trump's 'Consequential Culture' works...

Stewart Lee: Here’s how Trump's 'Consequential Culture' works...

For the very first of his weekly columns for the Nerve, the comedian unpicks how Orwell’s Doublethink is doing doubletime today.

Stewart Lee

The Nerve Q&A: Carol Vorderman

The Nerve Q&A: Carol Vorderman

The broadcaster, campaigner and all-round Nerve hero submits to our rapid-fire questions about politics, swearing and sex

Culture

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UP THE ARTS, LABOUR!

UP THE ARTS, LABOUR!

Sixteen creatives, including Khalid Abdalla, Rachael Stirling, Abi Morgan, and Hak Baker on the one thing the government could do to turbocharge UK culture

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government – including billionaire Larry Ellison – and an emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space

Tech

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