Alex James

Poland On The Page: Off Festival Moves Beyond Music

What happens when Eastern Europe throws in a mix of art and literature to its upcoming music festival scene? Alexander James went to OFF, Katowice, Poland, to find out.

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Leaky Jars & Millennial Malaise: New Fiction By Geraldine Snell

Geraldine Snell's "non-fiction novella", overlove, is "concerned with love, boundaries, leaky jars and the female gaze in today's context of digital communication, millennial malaise and searching online for something 'more'." Read an exclusive extract below

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Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?

We've come to expect Hollywood to rewrite history, says Luke Turner. But in the case of Von Stauffenberg, the mono-armed, cycloptic plotter who tried to blow up Hitler, is there even space to do this?

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Homework Stops Sugar Reunion Says Mould

Hüsker Dü and Sugar not to reform says veteran hardcore, indie, punk and house hero

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Music For Falling Through Life: Peter Broderick’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of his appearance at the Southbank Centre as part of Erased Tapes' tenth birthday celebrations later this year, Peter Broderick speaks to Elizabeth Aubrey about 13 records that inspired him, from Dylan to Arvo Part and Philip Glass

Film

Ronde The Houses: 360 Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan watches Brazilian City Of God director Fernando Meirelles' modern, globetrotting take on the venerable linked lovers play La Ronde

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LISTEN: New My Disco!

Australians My Disco strip back for next album

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Alex James

Poland On The Page: Off Festival Moves Beyond Music

Poland On The Page: Off Festival Moves Beyond Music

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