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"A historic night for representation will now be remembered for one thing": Hanna Flint on the Baftas racism row
The slur from John Davidson who has Tourette syndrome was involuntary but it should not have been broadcast by the BBC. When I hosted a Q&A screening of I Swear with Davidson I was properly prepared in advance, writes the film critic and podcaster
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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
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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
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The Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran: ‘We're going through a political crisis, but also a moral crisis’
The exiled author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, returns with a new book exploring how dissidents can find new communities. She talks about resilience, the comfort of trees and why the future is female. Interview by Hephzibah Anderson
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Review of the Week: My Father’s Shadow
British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr's acclaimed debut about an estranged father spending a busy day in Lagos with his sons, is a radiant and moving film about parents and children everywhere, writes Ellen E Jones
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'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
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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
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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
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Author & teacher Andy West: ‘In jail, philosophy comes from the ground up, not the top down’
Born into a family involved in crime, the writer’s memoir of a chaotic childhood is now an acclaimed BBC drama Waiting for the Out. He talks to Ursula Kenny about shame, survivor’s guilt and teaching Kafka in prisons
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No one’s sure what’s up with the Beckhams. So why does everyone think the women are to blame?
A grown man posted claims on his own social media account – and critics immediately rounded on his wife and his mum, because female behaviour is always the first to be moralised, writes author and comedian Tova Leigh
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Review: World’s Gone Wrong by Lucinda Williams
The high priestess of Americana is getting more and more politically charged as she enters her 70s – with guest collaborators including Big Thief helping her address the moral collapse of the US on her new album, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson
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The Recommender: Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods
The Nottingham duo's frontman picks his current cultural favourites
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‘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
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