What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October
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Danes with scythes, wacky Albion and Squidsoup’s pulsating techno – the week in art
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
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Joburg Ballet: Communion of Light review – pointe-shoe prettiness and mad, itching murder
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Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’
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Inside the secret psychology of horror games – and why we can’t help pushing play
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Attention by Anne Enright review – sparkling reflections on life and literature
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Egypt’s vast $1bn museum to open in Cairo after two-decade build
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Trump ally Stephen Miller at heart of FBI agent purge, new book reveals
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Thieves steal more than 1,000 items from Oakland museum in ‘brazen’ heist
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US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester
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Money Talks: The Important Historical Lessons of the 1929 Crash
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Artes Mundi 11 review – smug, stagey, up-itself nonsense for art world wazzocks
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A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
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Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah audiobook review – coming-of-age saga in Tanzania
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Wendy & Peter Pan review – sugar-rush spectacle with an awfully big hormonal hot-crush
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Prayers for a Hungry Ghost review – a monster take on family trauma
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Wayne McGregor review: shimmering dance spectacular without a live dancer in sight
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‘We are both freedom fighters’: Africa exhibition at war-damaged Kyiv gallery strikes a chord
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Choreographer Sharon Eyal: ‘I don’t like it when a dancer is comfortable – I want to see the struggle’
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Five new suspects arrested in connection with Louvre robbery
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Heart the Lover by Lily King review – a love story to treasure
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‘Was I fully grasping these events?’ Everyday life for Afghans – in pictures
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‘The world’s most haunted forest’: twisted trees, UFOs and spooky stories in Transylvania
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Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical review – pacy tale has wit, humour and enormous heart
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The Line of Beauty review – Hollinghurst’s Gatsby-esque social satire is a class act
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Met museum sued by family over allegedly Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting
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The Line of Beauty review – Hollinghurst’s Gatsby-esque social satire is a class act
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Akram Khan Company: Thikra – Night of Remembering review – forget the meaning, feel the colour and emotion
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Elmet review – the brutal tragedy of a feral family living on the edge of society
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Where to start with: Paul Bailey
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No half-assed performance: how playing with a live crowd turns video games into performance art
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The baffling appeal of the candy-coloured waterpark: Massimo Siragusa’s best photograph
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Ross Noble review – master of nonsense unleashes his fizzing comic brain
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What’s with the sponcon slop in Nobody Wants This? Netflix, nobody wants this | Alaina Demopoulos
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The Novel Was Less Than Impressive. The New TV Adaptation Is a Big Improvement.
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Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley review – raw, dark folk horror confronts mortality
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Donegal to Dakar: the Irish play about British rule hitting home in post-colonial Senegal
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Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety
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AI-generated nostalgia and a Nazi horse: a trip beyond understanding – in pictures
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
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A New Movie Tries to Adapt One of Our Most Popular Novelists—and Biffs It Completely
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ChatGPT came up with a 'Game of Thrones' sequel idea. Now, a judge is letting George RR Martin sue for copyright infringement.
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Period Parrrty review – angst, fumbling and turmoil for a non-binary Tamil British teen
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Is this painting who we now are? The identity grapplings of mystic artist Ben Edge
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Black British book festival launches publisher
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‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright
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Journey Home, David Gulpilil review – an elegant celebration of one of Australia’s great actors
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I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for
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Kindling review – all-female ‘anti-friendship’ play gets boozy and primal in the woods
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Hedda review – Ibsen transposed to world of pencil moustaches and tea dresses
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Richard Ayoade among authors in running to have pig named after book
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Money Talks: The Angel of Death Loophole and Other Ways our Tax Code Favors the Wealthy
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The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career
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The one change that worked: I adopted a one-in, one-out wardrobe policy and rediscovered my love of clothes
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The Séance of Blake Manor review – gripping gothic detective game steeped in mystery and menace
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Denouement review – darkly funny reckoning with relationship dystopia
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From White Teeth to Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s best books - ranked!
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WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal
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Poem of the week: Storm in Brooklyn Subway by Menna Elfyn
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The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus review – a cult writer tries something new
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In recent exposures: picks from PhotoMonth festival – in pictures
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This Little Earth review – audacious romantic odyssey untethered by a talking penguin
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The Anthony Bourdain Reader review – undiscovered gems from the charismatic chef turned writer
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‘We want people to get lost!’ Princeton’s new museum survives scandal to deliver a mazey art ambush
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Harvest Rock 2025 review – the Strokes, Jelly Roll and the War on Drugs save Adelaide festival after a slippery start
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Tom Gauld on Count Dracula – cartoon
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Simon Amstell review – time to move on after Hollywood party crush
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‘They disappeared when the wall came down’: German author Jenny Erpenbeck on the objects that contain vast histories
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