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Jerkin’ is a punk song for modern times.

This would be the most explicit song to ever win the Hottest 100

The Australian song doesn’t just ruffle feathers – it sets them on fire.

  • Tom W Clarke

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This Netflix family drama is the first must-see show of 2025

Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda’s seven-episode show is sublime.

  • Craig Mathieson

Why is Adrien Brody so good in The Brutalist? You can thank his mum

In depicting an architect who flees Nazi Germany, the Oscar-winning actor was mindful of his mother’s journey to America.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Harvard students near the Cambridge campus’ Widener Library. Ivy League colleges are doing little to enhance equality.

Think life is unfair and getting worse? This book will surprise you

Sweden is an unexpected example of how things can get better.

  • Andrew Leigh
Roisin Murphy, 51: “By the time I’m comfortable with something, it gets boring to me and it’s time to throw me back into another state of chaos.”

Dancing on the edge: How Róisín Murphy keeps reinventing herself

The Irish dance-pop icon is returning to Australia for her first headline tour in more than five years.

  • Annabel Ross
Coe’s new novel returns to the playfulness of his earlier works.

Jonathan Coe’s savage portrait of 21st-century British politics

Coe riffs on cosy crime, dark academia and auto-fiction in his new novel, but these jags are embedded within a larger metafictional game.

  • James Bradley
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Serviceberries are used as both  medicine and foodstuff.

Can this tiny berry help solve our biggest problems?

At the heart of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s eloquent new book is a nourishing example of give and take.

  • Gregory Day
David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston (AKA: Ross and Rachel) embrace on the set of Friends.

What’s the worst profession when it comes to choosing a partner?

Teachers use that special “voice”, plumbers never fix their own toilets and therapists always want to talk.

  • Richard Glover
Camp out time!

You don’t have to leave your home to make the most of your holiday

With these helpful tips, you’ll have as good a time as the people who can afford a real trip.

  • Richard Glover
P. J. Harvey later set her poems to music.

PJ Harvey is more keenly aware than ever of the toll art can take

The musician spent eight years working on the world of her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying.

  • Michael Dwyer

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