His traumatic experience with coronavirus inspired the author’s new children’s book – about the ‘friend’ he leaned onIt was the tweet that let the world know Michael Rosen was back on form and on the mend. “My wheelchair days are over. Stick now. Stick…
Martha Wainwright: ‘Divorce has given me wisdom’
The musician, 45, talks about putting down roots, losing her mother, playing music and and how middle age has been a transformative timeMy first memory is my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] singing to me. It was the song Go Tell Aunt Rhody, which…
Jimmy Savile: The People Who Knew review – devastating and damning
A decade after Savile’s death, a new documentary shares brave, horrific testimony from victims about the ‘huge multi-institutional cover-up’ which continues to this dayUnusually for someone who presented TV and radio programmes for six decades, Jimmy S…
A Syrian family finds refuge in the UK – in pictures
In the 10 years since the start of the Syrian civil war, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homeland. Photographer Rich Wiles collaborated on a five-year project with Ruba and Rami al-Hindawi and their ch…
Edinburgh Fringe returns with mix of in-person and online shows
Festival is part of world’s largest annual arts season which has been forced to curtail events due to CovidThe Edinburgh festival Fringe returns this weekend with a hybrid programme of nearly 800 in-person and online shows after its cancellation last y…
‘Limits are non-existent in the metaverse!’ Video game concerts become big business
This weekend, tens of millions will watch and interact with an Ariana Grande avatar for a concert in video game Fortnite – the latest in a growing, lucrative marketA shimmering Ariana Grande emerges from the starry night sky as she begins to run throug…
東京オリンピックの首都美化運動とサイバーパンク：SZ Newsletter VOL.94［Sci-Fi］
東京オリンピックに向けて行なわれた「首都美化運動」は日本人のアイデンティティすらをも変えるものだった。だがその後、サイバーパンクといったSFジャンルで舞台となるTOKYOやCHIBAで描かれたのは、当時一掃しようとした混沌の側の世界だ。SZメンバーシップの今週のテーマ「Sci-Fi」から、「デザイン・フィクション」や「SFプロトタイピング」の可能性を考える編集長からのニュースレター。
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Among Finland’s cold lakes and majestic pines, I learned to be present to beauty | Mette Jakobsen
Living alone for months in a European forest taught Mette Jakobsen a lesson to carry through the pandemic: to look at something beautiful every dayIn 2019 I travelled to a remote part of Finland to finish a novel.I was worn out. Three years in academia…
Moonbound review – a mish-mash of folkloric hijinks as kids take trip to the moon
This German-Austrian animation aimed at younger children borrows from vaguely familiar sourcesBased on a well-known German book for children from 1915, this derivative but adequate animated feature fuses together an assortment of vaguely familiar chara…
Fires, protests and llamas: 20 photographs of the week
Simone Biles at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the anniversary of the explosion in Beirut and forest fires in California and Turkey – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…