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Choice Of An Angel: Charlotte Church’s Favourite Albums

Charlotte Church, former world-conquering child soprano turned alt-rock auteur, picks 13 albums that may entirely change your view of her. But, as the Quietus finds out, challenging preconceptions is something she's used to

Room At The Top: Maxine Peake Interviewed

Adey Lobb talks to Maxine Peake about steering clear of the mainstream and her album with the Eccentronic Research Council about the Pendle Witch Trial

Jam City To Release New Album, ‘Pillowland’

It's his first LP since 2015's 'Dream A Garden'

Happy Days: Enniskillen Samuel Beckett Festival 2014

Ian Maleney heads to the Northern-Irish town of Enniskillen for the third instalment of its somewhat disparate but nonetheless intriguing Samuel Beckett festival, Happy Days

Indie Film Roundup: Uncle Boonmee, Adrift, Robinson in Ruins Reviewed

Simon Jablonski discovers the best left-field films of the week, discussing the fickleness of love, meandering time-travels and those ever curious Thai monkey-boys.

24 Hour Clinic: The Art Of The Poetry Anthology

Kit Caless gets to grips with Clinic III, the latest anthology from the South London poetry platform, and speaks to its editors about their selection process and the state of contemporary poetry

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Celebrity Stink: Alex Ross Perry On Her Smell

Discussing his newest film, the 5-act girl punk epic Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry tells Nick Chen about Shakespeare, secretive script developments and why blender-style work

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week Simon reviews _The War You Don't See_, _Cuckoo_ and _Loose Cannons_

Low Culture Podcast: An Eerie November Edition

John Doran and Luke Turner explore two fantastic new exhibitions in the new edition of the Low Culture podcast

Verfreundungseffekt: Make The Call – Translation As Afterlife/Reincarnation

The latest instalment of Jen Calleja's Verfreundungseffekt column puts into play a game of Chinese Whispers on a poem by Sam Riviere — with help from Chrissy Williams, Laura Tenschert, Livia Franchini and Jack Underwood — considering the value and the possibilities of translating a translation, flipping Walter Benjamin the bird in the process. (Illustration by Richard Phœnix)

Smoke Signals: Jude Rogers On The State Of Independent Publishing

As Quietus writer Jude Rogers prepares to publish an anthology of London writing, she looks at the changing issues facing independent publishers since she founded Smoke magazine a decade ago

Watch: New My Chemical Romance Video

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A Novel Of The Glance: Flights By Olga Tokarczuk

Matthew Turner reviews Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize

“We Don’t Even Belong To Each Other”: Cats On Film

From the Godfather to You Were Never Really Here, Ella Kemp looks at the effacing adoration of cats on screen

From Dad To Worse: The Wolfe Brothers On Catch Me Daddy

Katherine McLaughlin talks to the directors of visceral British thriller Catch Me Daddy, out in cinemas now