Culture
The Nerve Hotlist
This week's top cultural picks – from Jorja Smith’s uplifting new album to the bumbling charm of TV's Ludwig – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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Saul Williams: ‘Resistance fighters need something to listen to’
The multitalented musician, poet, film-maker and Sinners actor talks to Kate Hutchinson about finding energy, his friendship with Robert Del Naja, and making music in troubled times
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The Recommender: Mathew Horne
Before he takes to the stage as Malvolio, the Gavin & Stacey star shares his latest cultural discoveries
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Bella Ramsey: ‘I go to Quaker meetings and just sit in silence for an hour!’
The Game of Thrones and Last of Us actor, now starring in the buzzy indie drama Sunny Dancer, talks to Hanna Flint about coming of age, looking for faith ... and the apparently endless process of doing the laundry
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week's top cultural picks – from a cool Anthony Bourdain biopic to Phoebe Bridgers’s soul-searching new album – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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Ellen E Jones: AI can already create films. What it can’t create is art
A machine-made movie has premiered at Tribeca and virtual actor Tilly Norwood is about to star in a feature. But if there’s no soul, no emotion, or no attempt at human connection ... who cares? By Ellen E Jones
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The Recommender: Bryony Kimmings
The performance artist and screenwriter shares her latest cultural discoveries
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week's don't-miss cultural picks – from a moving coming of age story set in Luton to Nick Hakim’s ghostly new album – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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The Recommender: Courttia Newland
The award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter shares his latest cultural favourites
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week's top cultural picks – from a female-powered new crime drama to some of the greats of US photography – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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The 10 best things to see at Edinburgh festival 2026 – from chaotic monks and teen punks to Bigfoot hysteria
Four thousand shows, one month: how do you choose? Critic and dedicated festivalgoer Fergus Morgan offers a guide to the hottest tickets
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Joe Lycett: ‘Part of me thinks: we've had so many prime ministers, why not give the bin a go?’
Ahead of a major solo exhibition, the comedian, artist and presenter answers the Nerve Q&A - on Celebrity Traitors, politics, and how his toddler has already started heckling Richard Tice. Interview by Michael Hogan
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'We’ve been here before – bizarre men naming themselves king and behaving horribly': author Max Porter on hope, history and his dog, Happy
The bestselling writer fears for growing crises in both politics and literacy, he tells Jude Rogers – so he’s written a children’s book to get back to a ‘joyful place’
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Review: The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan’s immersive and beautiful retelling of Homer isn’t just an epic story but an epic achievement – a truly five-star film, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week's top cultural picks, from a bittersweet goodbye to Heartstopper to the return of London's coolest theatre, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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‘At the heart of change is always protest’: Misan Harriman on Gaza, George Floyd and the spirit of activism
At a special Nerve screening of a new documentary about his work, the acclaimed photographer and campaigner sat down with Carole Cadwalladr and director Andy Mundy-Castle for an in-depth discussion of race, culture, cancellation and more
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The Recommender: Greentea Peng
The London-born psychedelic R&B singer shares her current cultural favourites
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week's top cultural picks, from Olivia Wilde's sexy couples comedy to a celebration of ice cream, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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The Festival of Britain’s boldest dream has been forgotten
Down the road from London’s South Bank landmarks, the exhibition committee built a model social housing estate – for everyone, for the future. Seventy-five years on, where is that spirit now? By Phineas Harper
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week's don't-miss cultural picks, from sculptor Anish Kapoor's gigantic forms to an intimate, war-torn love story, as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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The Nerve's summer books 2026
From a sweeping Korean family saga to a love letter to George Michael, our team of writers and editors each recommend a perfect read for your summer getaway – and one they’ll be taking on holiday. Plus three Bookstagrammers share their top picks
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'Billionaires aren’t going to save you’: Amazon union trailblazer Chris Smalls on fighting back against the gig economy
The labour activist who took on Jeff Bezos in 2022 – and challenged him again at the Met Gala this year – talks to Lucia Osborne-Crowley about courage, community, class and why he's telling his remarkable story in a new memoir
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‘Literature is about digging, not putting on a show’: author Édouard Louis on writing as an act of working-class defiance
The French novelist’s unsparing autofiction about his poor and violent childhood is designed to challenge a leftwing establishment that is losing touch with those it represents, he tells Lucia Osborne-Crowley
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‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak
The Nerve’s Carole Cadwalladr was all set to talk to Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the explosive memoir Careless People, at the Hay festival when Meta’s lawyers intervened ... and turned the event into ‘absurdist theatre’
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