The London Magazine
Ducks, Newburyport | ReviewAt its worst, Ellmann has written an unbearably accurate documentary of an individual’s innermost thoughts and feelings, which many readers will object to simply because of its length; or because it is so exacting a portrait that they cannot face the pores of their own skin and the blemishes of living; either way, they do so in spite of its sheer informedness about society rather than on its merits, which are manifold. Whatever its failures as a novel I suspect they are also our own.
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Sinéad Gleeson on solidarity
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Joe Dunthorne on Cliché, Adulting and Coming of Age | InterviewAhead of The London Book & Screen Week event, in which Dunthorne will discuss coming-of-age cult fiction, spanning classics such as J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series, as well as the evolution of the genre at large, with Lisa Owens and poet Leena Normington at the Groucho Club, I spoke to the author about coming of age, cliché and what it means to be an adult.
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Voice Magazine
Henry Carpenter | TheatreFollowing the release of the Original Cast Recording of The Quentin Dentin Show, lyricist and composer Henry Carpenter talks New Wave rock, the cult of Quentin Dentin and, erm . . . lemons?
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I used to paint walls rather than Old Masters, says artist Jake Wood-Evans | Fine ArtThe East Sussex painter Jake Wood-Evans has coming a long way from fitting parquet flooring.
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Design/Play/Disrupt | V&AChallenging the rules we play by, the V&A’s latest exhibition offers a sprawling look at contemporary videogames design from the last decade.
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Archive
Helen Bauer | Comedy
'Don't drink three bottles of wine!' Pleasance Comedy Reserve stand-up and BBC Comedy Award finalist Helen Bauer gives her top tips for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018.
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Revenants | Theatre
‘Now I don’t mind if the generation you’re of wants to jettison its own culture. But sleep walking into it seems very silly indeed,’ says Olivier award-winning actor turned playwright Nichola McAuliffe. 'You're losing . . .'
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Nowhere Nearer | Poetry
'We are no longer quite here and not yet there at all’, writes Anna Freud in 1938. Nazi troops have arrived in her home town of Vienna, and she is soon to leave the city, along with her father, Sigmund Freud. Despite her father’s ill health . . .
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Flesh and Bone | Theatre
'What a piece of work is a man?’ After a stint at London’s SOHO theatre, Flesh and Bone returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another riotous performance of their award-winning play. Written and directed by . . .
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Moon | ComedyLeicester Square Sketch-Off finalists and sketch comedy duo, Jack Chisnall and Josh Dolphin bring their debut show Moon to the Fringe for the first time. Tackling some deep-seated issues such as 'What's your curry order?' and . . .
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Freeman | TheatreInspired by the first American to plead insanity as his defence, Freeman explores the unspoken link between mental health and systemic racism. On the face of it, it’s a hard sell, and yet the theatre was packed when I attended . . .
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Miron Zownir | PhotographyWhere many artists mistake their aesthetic influence for political impact, Miron Zownir unapologetically refuses to underestimate mainstream apathy. Photographing numerous underground cultures . . .
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Mauren Brodbeck | ArtKitted in a silver spacesuit, Mauren Brodbeck lounges amidst the dry ice of her motel room. The room is lit artificially with jade green LEDs and at the centre of the room stands a double bed. Above the headboard discothèque . . .
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This Week in Twitter HistoryMore tremors have been detected in North Korea and speculation surrounding Pyongyang’s nuclear tests continues. Amidst these developments, Kim Jong-Un has delivered another mass rally . . .
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