Captain Fantastic is about a man living the American Libertarian dream: him, his wife and their six children all live in an idyllic forest, meditating and rock-climbing by day, reading Middlemarch and quantum mechanics at night (in lieu of going to an actual school). They grow and hunt their own...
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This isn’t the first time Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have done a musical documentary, but proceedings are very, very different this time round. Whereas their previous film, 20,000 Days on Earth, was a surreal, irreverent and fantastically inventive look into the biography of one of the strangest and...
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As term two comes to an end, and with the end of year in sight too, Rory McCarthy reveals the top five closing lines in literature
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Three of our writers share books they feel are underrated and explain why you should give them a go
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It wasn’t a coincidence that David Bowie’s last album Blackstar was full of references to death and contemplations of mortality – he had been battling cancer for almost two years when he recorded it, and in typical Bowie fashion had told this to his fans by way of conceptual art...
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Let The Mountain Goats get you through your January blues.
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On Saturday the 14th of November – the day, of course, after the tragedy in Paris – you probably found your Facebook awash in tricolour. It illustrated news articles, it was presented as photos of poignantly arranged flowers – and it was laid over profile picture after profile picture. And like #Kony2012, Jeremy Corbyn or Justin Bieber’s recent reinvention as a critically respectable popstar, it wasn’t long before this new, hyper-popular thing had an equally forceful backlash.
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