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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Heights by Ian Rankin; The Mortons by Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier; Murder Most Cryptic by Alys Cummings; The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald by AJ West;…
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Add to playlist: the buzzy bildungsromans of boy wonder Superfan and the week’s best new tracks
Kali Flanagan was handpicked by Julian Casablancas to support the Strokes – now, at 21, he’s…
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Issy Wood: Self-Portraits review – suffocatingly revealing works from the ultimate zillennial painter
National Portrait Gallery, London These close-cropped paintings seem to capture our own bored, glum and perpetually…
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Sod’s law: what can two turf swaps 40 years apart tell us about Britain’s biodiversity crisis?
In 1983, David Nash dug up a section of Kensington Gardens and swapped it with Welsh…
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‘The mainstream has come to them’: how did Fontaines DC go from Dublin dive bars to headlining stadiums?
Once scrappy post-punk poets, they’re now one of the biggest bands in the world. As they…
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The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable review – Netflix doc on ‘secret album’ is strictly for super fans
The lore of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, once bought by Martin Shkreli, is explored…
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Penguin Colony review – an Antarctic odyssey of Nazis and Lovecraftian horrors
PC; Origame DigitalThis odd but absorbing adventure sends you waddling across Antarctica in search of an…
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John Green: ‘I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s’
The American author on being inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, coming late to Jane Austen, and the…
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Worldpeace DMT: Stick Around for Tea review – ‘laptop twee’ duo keep things goofy but strengthen songs
(WPDMT)Bringing back the hyperliterate sound design of their acclaimed 2025 debut, the London duo explore childhood…
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Weird Baile: Collected Rips 2004-2024 review – a hallucinatory trip to baile funk’s outer limits
(TraTraTrax)Two decades of work from producers JLZ, VHOOR, Mu540 and DJ RaMeMes strips the Brazilian genre…