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Rent – Gaten Matarazzo leads a sparky revival for a new Generation Rent Boasting infectious performances from a superb cast, Jonathan Larson’s cult classic still more than pays its way ✍️ @cowleskatherine bit.ly/4eOsGIr

Rent – Gaten Matarazzo leads a sparky revival for a new G...

Boasting infectious performances from a superb cast, Jonathan Larson’s cult classic still more than pays its way

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Fatherland – Sandra Hüller reckons with Germany’s ghosts in Thomas Mann biopic Paweł Pawlikowski’s elegant, austere portrait of the exiled author’s return to Germany is anchored by a quietly commanding turn by the actor playing his daughter ✍️ @wendyide bit.ly/4yxpPuo

Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller reckons with Germany’s ghosts in Thomas Mann biopic

Paweł Pawlikowski’s elegant, austere portrait of the exiled author’s return to Germany is anchored by a quietly commanding turn by the actor playing his daughter

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Mothers of Kherson – a brave, blistering opera for Ukraine’s stolen children In Warsaw, the world premiere of an urgent new opera about Russia’s unlawful wartime abductions gets a 20-minute standing ovation ✍️ @FionaMaddocks bit.ly/4sjuP4B

Mothers of Kherson review – a brave, blistering opera for Ukraine’s stolen children

In Warsaw, the world premiere of an urgent new opera about Russia’s unlawful wartime abductions gets a 20-minute standing ovation

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The riddle of JRR Tolkien Conservative and radical, civilised and wild – the great fantasy novelist was a living conundrum. In The King Under the Mountain, DJ Taylor seeks to unpick his legend ✍️ @TanyaGold1 bit.ly/4sjuKxP

The King Under the Mountain by DJ Taylor review: The riddle of JRR Tolkien

Conservative and radical, civilised and wild – the great fantasy novelist was a living conundrum. Author DJ Taylor seeks to unpick his legend

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Tove Jansson, from Moominvalley to Middle-earth Billed as ‘the children’s book of the century’ in 1962, the Moomins creator’s illustrated version of The Hobbit is finally reaching English readers ✍️ Daisy Lynch bit.ly/4zQswZq

Tove Jansson’s The Hobbit review: from Moominvalley to Middle-earth

Billed as ‘the children’s book of the century’ in 1962, the Moomins creator’s illustrated version of the Tolkien classic is finally reaching English readers

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The shaming of Britain’s slavery profiteers The historian William A Pettigrew spent five years identifying the merchants, investors and adventurers who grew rich from the barbaric transatlantic slave trade ✍️ Ian Thomson bit.ly/4zJXL8d

The shaming of Britain’s slavery profiteers | The Observer

The historian William A Pettigrew spent five years identifying the merchants, investors and adventurers who grew rich from the barbaric transatlantic slave trade

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Jacqueline Rose: ‘Like Freud, I am a godless Jew’ The philosopher on misunderstood women, the problem with empathy, and the challenge of honouring her late sister ✍️ Lily Isaacs bit.ly/4seEzx3

Jacqueline Rose: ‘Like Freud, I am a godless Jew’

The philosopher on misunderstood women, the problem with empathy, and the challenge of honouring her late sister

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Pawel Pawlikowski: ‘Britain doesn’t change. It’s a country of slow erosion’ The Oscar-winning director talks about rediscovering his Polish heritage, his parents’ suicides, and the true story behind his Cannes-winning film Fatherland ✍️ Andrew Anthony bit.ly/3U4n4ms

Paweł Pawlikowski: ‘Britain doesn’t change. It’s a countr...

The Oscar-winning director had to leave England to learn about history. He talks about rediscovering his Polish heritage, his parents’ suicides, and the true story behind his Cannes-winning film...

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On Fudge, Michael Kiwanuka answers to no one but himself Delayed due to ill health, the artist’s fifth album sees him break free from superstar producers to deliver an album of pure artistic instinct ✍️ @kittyempire666 bit.ly/4BAS5zp

Fudge review – on his secret fifth album, Michael Kiwanuka answers to no one but himself

Delayed due to ill health, the artist’s fifth album sees him break free from superstar producers to deliver an album of pure artistic instinct

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Dua Lipa’s ultimate reading list The London Literature Festival curator and her guest authors, including Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith and Malorie Blackman, on the books they recommend more than any others bit.ly/4s8JbER

Dua Lipa’s ultimate reading list: Zadie Smith, Max Porter and others pick their favourite books

The London Literature Festival curator and her guest authors on the books they recommend more than any others

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How to find a Syrian executioner Posing as a sympathetic academic, Annsar Shahhoud convinced a suspected perpetrator of a massacre of civilians in Damascus to confess to being involved ✍️ @chloehadj bit.ly/4dKncOv

How to find a Syrian executioner | The Observer

Posing as a sympathetic academic, Annsar Shahhoud convinced a suspected perpetrator of a massacre of civilians in Damascus to confess to being involved

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce: The ‘childhood lottery’ is stealing futures. How do we fix it? Quickly ✍️ Frank Cottrell-Boyce bit.ly/4jwZzNc

Frank Cottrell-Boyce: The ‘childhood lottery’ is stealing...

Rachel de Souza’s shocking report reveals children in England face a cluster crisis of poverty, education, wellbeing and inequality, but local, targeted action offers a way out

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Elif Shafak’s love letter to Flaubert In One Brief Moment All Eternity looks to the Madame Bovary author for lessons in how to live ✍️ Fiona Sampson bit.ly/4sejK4w

In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak book review: a love letter to Gustave Flaubert

In One Brief Moment All Eternity looks to the Madame Bovary author for lessons in how to live

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What to read to understand Jamaica Three books that explore subcultures and sexuality in the Caribbean island community ✍️ Liv Little bit.ly/4yTrV8V

What to read to understand Jamaica | The Observer

Three books that explore subcultures and sexuality in the Caribbean island community

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Intan Paramaditha’s suicide-bomber sister act Night of a Thousand Hells blends the boisterous and the brutal as two women make sense of their younger sibling’s terrorist atrocity ✍️ John Self bit.ly/4yvbdMq

Night of a Thousand Hells by Intan Paramaditha review: my sister the suicide bomber

Night of a Thousand Hells blends the boisterous and the brutal as two women make sense of their younger sibling’s terrorist act

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The Devils uncensored: inside Mark Kermode’s mission to restore Ken Russell’s heretical masterpiece ✍️ Maya Sall bit.ly/47kIxdT

The Devils uncensored: inside Mark Kermode’s mission to r...

Russell’s 1971 film is one of the most controversial in cinema history, its ‘blasphemous’ orgy scene cut from the original edit. More than half a century later it has been reconstructed in full – and...

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How to find a Syrian executioner Posing as a sympathetic academic, Annsar Shahhoud convinced a suspected perpetrator of a massacre of civilians in Damascus to confess to being involved ✍️ Chloe Hadjimatheou bit.ly/4dKncOv

How to find a Syrian executioner | The Observer

Posing as a sympathetic academic, Annsar Shahhoud convinced a suspected perpetrator of a massacre of civilians in Damascus to confess to being involved

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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Forgotten Island, NAZA, Street Fighter, Case 137 A gloriously anarchic paean to female friendship is one of the best animated films of the year ✍️ Wendy Ide bit.ly/4k09gUm

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Forgotten Island, NAZA, ...

A gloriously anarchic paean to female friendship is one of the best animated films of the year

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Survival of the kippers L Robson & Sons, a traditional smokehouse in Northumberland, has seen the oily fish fall in and out of fashion for 120 years ✍️ Jack Burke bit.ly/4yYs774

Survival of the kippers | The Observer

L Robson & Sons, a traditional smokehouse in Northumberland, has seen the oily fish fall in and out of fashion for 120 years

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Inside London’s wartime spy tunnels A subterranean labyrinth once frequented by James Bond creator Ian Fleming is being developed as a tourist attraction ✍️ Stephen Smith bit.ly/4ipulX4

Inside London’s wartime spy tunnels | The Observer

A subterranean labyrinth once frequented by James Bond creator Ian Fleming is being developed as a tourist attraction

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