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On my radar: Claire-Louise Bennett’s cultural highlights

06-08-2022 16:00

The award-winning writer on her favourite Amsterdam cafe, listening to strange music in the dark, swimming at the ladies’ beach in Galway and living the high life at a US cannabis shop Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at Roehampton University before moving to Galway, where she worked in theatre for several years. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in a number of publications, including the Irish Times and the Stinging Fly, and in 2013 she

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‘I love the contrasting textures – his amazing hair, the dirty window’: Shane Taylor’s best phone picture

06-08-2022 11:00

The street photographer reflects on a chance encounter on the top deck of a bus
Shane Taylor began taking photographs about 20 years ago as a step in overcoming social anxiety. “I was very reclusive, but I decided to go to college,” he says. “I studied design and discovered Helen Levitt and Garry Winogrand, and this thing called street photography. Learning the craft helped me in pragmatic ways; I had to leave the house to do it. I began to stop avoiding people and actively app

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From Bullet Train to Pussy Riot: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

06-08-2022 07:00

Whether you want to join Brad Pitt in Japan for the commute from hell or stay home with a noisy Russian art collective, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysBullet Train
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Brad Pitt heads up this action movie from Deadpool 2 director David Leitch. Based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle, it’s set mostly on a bullet train heading from Tokyo to Kyoto – “bullet” here signifying both train speed and actual bullets. Joey King and Aaron Taylor-Johnson also

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Why So Many Adults Are Keeping Their Kid Culture

06-08-2022 00:01 via aeon.co

If life in the 1930s was marked by a Great Depression, and the 2010s by a Great Recession, one might say our current decade is marked by a Great Regression. This return to childhood manifests in the things we consume, in how we spend our time, even in the ways our societies are governed. – Aeon

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