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Review of the Week: Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations
The sculptor’s joyous, organic creations, repurposed and reimagined from everyday objects, speak to each other beautifully in her new exhibition, writes Emily LaBarge
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I was a teenage Pet Shop Boys fan. Decades later, they’re always on my mind
As a 13-year-old in Saudi, Arwa Haider wore the band’s T-shirts under her abaya. Now a new book and gigs by the duo, and a major exhibition on youth culture, are shining a light on the overlooked power of fandom
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The Nerve Hotlist
This week’s top cultural picks – from Jim Jarmusch’s new film to Jamie Woon’s return to music – as chosen by our team of writers and editors
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The Recommender: Romola Garai
The award-winning TV, film and theatre actor shares her latest cultural discoveries
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Director François Ozon: 'In France, we consider cinema as an art. I'm not sure in England it's the same'
The French film-maker, whose new movie, The Stranger, is out next week, talks to Ellen E Jones about stars, politics, Camus and the Cure
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The Nerve Hotlist
The best culture to check out this week – from a Tony-winning high-school stage drama to Riz Ahmed’s new comedy series – as picked by our team of editors and writers
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Orwell, Trump and the persistence of fascism: ‘He was giving us a warning’
Raoul Peck, director of a new film about the author, tells Dorian Lynskey that the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four was drawn from lived experience, not prophecy
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Review of the Week: Sexistential by Robyn
Babies, boobs and pop bangers! The Swedish star is back with a euphoric new album embracing the joy of motherhood and messy, middle-aged desire, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson
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The Recommender: Himesh Patel
The actor whose roles include Yesterday, Station Eleven and now Bait picks his current cultural favourites
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The best culture to check out this week - from musician James Blake on fine form to a dive into Hokusai's Great Wave - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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SNL UK proved everyone wrong: it’s a big, British, Saturday riot
The US sketch-show behemoth didn’t seem like a natural export, but it has pulled together the biggest collection of homegrown talent in years, writes comedian Max Olesker
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‘It’s everyone’s history’: the artist Hurvin Anderson on his Tate Britain retrospective
The Turner prize-nominated painter, whose luminous canvases span portraiture, barbershop interiors and the lush landscapes of his Jamaican heritage, talks to Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge
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The Recommender: Arlo Parks
The Mercury award-winning singer-songwriter picks her current cultural favourites
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Review of the Week: Summerfolk at the National theatre
Maxim Gorky’s pre-revolutionary play about wealthy Russians on the brink of chaos is reborn in a five star, distinctly relevant revival, writes Nerve theatre critic Dorian Lynskey
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'I realised I had to do it for women’: Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur on Courtney Love, capitalism and sisterhood
As her new memoir is published, the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist answers the Nerve Q&A on love, sex, the corrupting effect of money and patriarchy – and tells Kate Hutchinson how everything changed in the 90s, the ‘last analogue decade’
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The best culture to enjoy this week - from powerful civil rights photography to a new angle on Austen - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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Review of the Week: How To Make a Killing
John Patton Ford's remake of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets updates the old film for the oligarch era with leading man Glen Powell and some deserving 21st-century victims, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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The Recommender: Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor
The Hot Chip frontman and solo artist on his latest cultural discoveries
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The Nerve Hotlist
The best culture to enjoy this week - from Kim Gordon’s new album to Rachel Weisz’s steamy Netflix fantasy - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers
Britain’s ailing construction industry should be embracing high-profile figures like builder-turned-MP Hannah Spencer. And why is the built environment media largely ignoring this positive news, asks architecture writer Phineas Harper
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The Recommender: Jeremy Deller
The Turner prize-winning conceptual artist shares his current cultural favourites
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Review of the Week: Lily Allen on tour
The kitsch live version of the singer’s gut-punch breakup album West End Girl feels, appropriately, like theatre, but somehow lacks a joyful climax, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson
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The Nerve Hotlist
The best culture to enjoy this week - from Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold take on Frankenstein to Tracey Emin's deeply poignant Tate show - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
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‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie on oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria
In her raw new memoir, the campaigner reveals how her political awakening came at a horrifying cost to her and those she loved – and why, even so, she still believes in the power of defiance, writes Natasha Walter
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