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How Tony Wilson's Factory Records shaped Manchester's musical identity, from Joy Division's post-punk to the Hacienda's rave revolution.
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With its new winner, the Booker Prize champions plot over prose. Is this a needed revival of narrative or a loss for experimental fiction?
By Lana Sterling On 1 June 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles. A hundred years later, the world she left behind at…
By Sara Bright On 4 December 1872, the crew of a Canadian brigantine called Dei Gratia spotted a vessel drifting erratically through the Atlantic about…
By Lana Sterling For twenty years, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair existed as cinema’s most tantalising ghost. Quentin Tarantino screened it at Cannes in…