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Damon Albarn: “I’ve always been very strong on finishing work at five and cooking dinner.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/New York Times Damon Albarn: ‘Brexit has revealed terrible truths about the mental health of the English’
  • Music
  • Eamon Sweeney
  • November 22, 2018, 05:00

The Blur frontman on ‘Merrie Land’, Britpop, Oasis, Morrissey and John Lydon

Man Booker winner Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’ sells 330,000 copies, ‘rising by thousands every day’ Man Booker winner Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’ sells 330,000 copies, ‘rising by thousands every day’
  • Books
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • November 21, 2018, 17:53

Demand has been ‘astonishing’, with hugely positive response from retailers, says Faber

The Beatles: White Album – The hidden meanings behind the lyrics The Beatles: White Album – The hidden meanings behind the lyrics
  • Books
  • Susan Shumsky
  • November 22, 2018, 05:39

On the 50th anniversary of The White Album, Maharishi’s assistant reveals all

A matter of taste: when art and food collide A matter of taste: when art and food collide
  • Visual Art
  • Gemma Tipton
  • November 21, 2018, 05:00

Food is central to our lives, so how do artists engage with its symbolism and meaning?

Art Brut: Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! review – Wonderful throwback to glory days Art Brut: Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! review – Wonderful throwback to glory days
  • Album Reviews
  • November 22, 2018, 07:00

Art Brut's album in seven years, doesn’t just echo the title of their debut, it sticks to the blueprint

Brazilian school made out of wood voted world’s best building Brazilian school made out of wood voted world’s best building
  • Art & Design
  • November 21, 2018, 09:39

Royal Institute of British Architects 2018 prize goes to the timber and mud-brick Children Village, which doesn’t need air-con even in 45 degree heat

Irish editor Samantha Barry pulls plug on ‘Glamour’ print edition Irish editor Samantha Barry pulls plug on ‘Glamour’ print edition
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jaclyn Peiser
  • November 21, 2018, 09:03

Condé Nast magazine moves focus online as website and YouTube channel grow

Damien Hirst’s giant uterus? It should shock us out of ignorance Damien Hirst’s giant uterus? It should shock us out of ignorance
  • Visual Art
  • Hannah Clugston
  • November 21, 2018, 10:04

The artist’s controversial Qatar sculptures are a rare celebration of women’s bodies

Eugene McCabe: 'The remnants of the IRA will try to revive the murder and mayhem' Eugene McCabe: 'The remnants of the IRA will try to revive the murder and mayhem'
  • Books
  • Adrienne Leavy
  • November 20, 2018, 14:50

As his ‘Death and Nightingales’ comes to our screens, the author talks to Adrienne Leavy

‘To read Harvesting is chilling as we have seen the rise to power of naked misogyny’ ‘To read Harvesting is chilling as we have seen the rise to power of naked misogyny’
  • Books
  • Margaret O’Brien
  • November 21, 2018, 05:49

Lisa Harding’s novel shows us the inevitable outcome when females are seen as lesser beings

Latest Film

Taron Egerton as the altruistic thief Blame ‘Game of Thrones’ for the useless new Robin Hood movie
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: terrible, but features an eight-year-old Pia Zadora as a Martian child Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?
“Obviously on set you can’t have real arrows flying around.” Above, Taron Egerton with Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood Taron Egerton: ‘You have to bet on yourself in this game’
  • William Goldman, screenwriter who insisted ‘Nobody knows anything’ dies at 87
  • Six of the best films to see this weekend

Film Reviews

Nativity Rocks!

 
Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider’s Web. The film keeps flagging autism as a superpower, but not everyone on the spectrum is a chess grandmaster The Girl in the Spider's Web

 
Taron Egerton as Robin Hood. The outlaw from the English midlands talks pure Estuary. Photograph: Larry Horricks/Lionsgate Robin Hood

 
Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth, and Olivia Ancona in Suspiria (2018) Suspiria

 

Latest Music

Damon Albarn: “I’ve always been very strong on finishing work at five and cooking dinner.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/New York Times Damon Albarn: ‘Brexit has revealed terrible truths about the mental health of the English’

The Blur frontman on ‘Merrie Land’, Britpop, Oasis, Morrissey and John Lydon

Wendy Carlos: At the time ‘Switched-On Bach’ was released, the composer was six months into transgender hormone therapy, and still known as Carlos. Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music
Shame are wary of being tagged a “political” band. Photograph: Jordan Hughes Charlie Steen of Shame: ‘Touring eventually broke my mind’
  • Gavin Bryars: ‘I haven’t reached 100 yet, so I’m still relatively young’
  • New artist of the week: Marc Rebillet

Album Reviews

Spies: Constancy

 
Art Brut: Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!

 
Vessel: Queen of Golden Dogs

 
Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre: Allt

 
The Good, The Bad & The Queen: Merrie Land

 
Mumford & Sons: Delta

 

Latest Books

Amanda Bell: it was key to me to change the gender of the sasquatch ‘A rare privilege to inhabit the psyche and the skin of the sasquatch’

The sasquatch, once seen as predatory and dangerous, is now an emblem of extinction

Susan Shumsky, front left, in Rishikesh in 1970 The Beatles: White Album – The hidden meanings behind the lyrics
Anna Burns celebrates winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel, Milkman. Photograph: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga Man Booker winner Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’ sells 330,000 copies, ‘rising by thousands every day’
  • Thomas Kinsella to receive Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at Irish Book Awards
  • A gofer’s guide to ‘The Irish Times’

Book Reviews

A Radical History of the World review: Seeking a steampunk revolution
Becoming by Michelle Obama review: a highflying outsider’s view
The History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature: telling a bigger, truer story
Northern Heist review: stylish and insightful fictionalisation of a robbery

TV & Radio

Glamour: Condé Nast, which is backing the magazine’s move online, lost more than $120 million in 2017 Irish editor Samantha Barry pulls plug on ‘Glamour’ print edition

Condé Nast magazine moves focus online as website and YouTube channel grow

Sandy Harsch (76) presented ‘Country Time’ on RTÉ Radio 1 since 1996. RTÉ Radio 1 presenter Sandy Harsch has died aged 76
I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here: the Made in Chelsea star Georgia Toffolo found one of last year’s bushtucker trials hard to stomach. Photograph: ITV Hold the maggots: can ‘I’m a Celebrity’ survive the vegan era?
  • Meet the ‘real’ John Lewis, star of Twitter’s Christmas ad
  • Muted drama ventures inside the mind of homeowner who killed an Irish Traveller

Stage

Hero: Daithí Mac Suibhne is absorbing as John Smithy, whose name slyly puts him somewhere between Everyman and a nobody Hero review: One of the oldest tales gets the freshest possible expression

The hero of Ken Rogan’s excellent debut is a warrior on the pitch but lost at sea in matters of the heart

Woman Undone: a familiar trajectory of abuse, self-medication, self-harm and, eventually, recovery Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction
Gig of the Week: The Great Gatsby is one marvellous party
  • This week’s theatre highlights
  • The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time

Art & Design

Controversial: Damien Hirst’s Miraculous Journey sculptures in Qatar. Photograph: AFP/Getty Damien Hirst’s giant uterus? It should shock us out of ignorance

The artist’s controversial Qatar sculptures are a rare celebration of women’s bodies

The complex is a model of light-touch environmental design, providing a huge expanse of shade … Children Village by Brazilian designer Rosenbaum and architects Aleph Zero. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti/Rosenbaum Arquitetura 2017 Brazilian school made out of wood voted world’s best building
A matter of taste: prawn-head smoothies in a Domestic Godless installation A matter of taste: when art and food collide
  • A mythical, dreamy view of the Blasket Islands
  • Art in Focus: My Magnetic North, Gary Coyle

Unthinkable

Muslim praying in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Islam has ‘given rise to remarkably free societies as well as depressingly intolerant ones’. Photograph: AP/Muhammed Muheisen What can the West learn from the rest?

Unthinkable: Borrowing foreign ideas can expand our thinking, says Julian Baggini

‘My position is to recommend that people consider parenting a child with Down syndrome, if given the opportunity’. Photograph: iStock Is economics corrupting our idea of human worth?
Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?
  • What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
  • A ‘third way’ of looking at religion

Michael Viney's Another Life

Illustration: Michael Viney Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Restoring the golden eagle to the west has found the limits to bringing back a carnivore

“Like our neighbours, we once depended wholly on the stream, piped to the house by gravity from one of its higher pools.” Nature takes refuge as drought dries the landscape
“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
  • For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches

Heritage

Poulnabrone dolmen in Co Clare. Photograph: iStock Have you been to ‘Queen Maeve’s Vulva’? Ireland’s oddest placenames

We can reclaim Ballypitmave, and thousands of other names, or let them fossilise

Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
The restaurant at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Dermot Barry When Dublin Airport got a space-age restaurant
  • Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'
  • Armistice Day: The forgotten Sligo men who never came home from the war

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1 Damon Albarn: “I’ve always been very strong on finishing work at five and cooking dinner.” Photograph: Tom Jamieson/New York Times Damon Albarn: ‘Brexit has revealed terrible truths about the mental health of the English’
2 Wendy Carlos: At the time ‘Switched-On Bach’ was released, the composer was six months into transgender hormone therapy, and still known as Carlos. Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music
3 Susan Shumsky, front left, in Rishikesh in 1970 The Beatles: White Album – The hidden meanings behind the lyrics
4 The complex is a model of light-touch environmental design, providing a huge expanse of shade … Children Village by Brazilian designer Rosenbaum and architects Aleph Zero. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti/Rosenbaum Arquitetura 2017 Brazilian school made out of wood voted world’s best building
5 Taron Egerton as Robin Hood. The outlaw from the English midlands talks pure Estuary. Photograph: Larry Horricks/Lionsgate Robin Hood: Idiotic film can’t even get its absurdities right
6 Anna Burns celebrates winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel, Milkman. Photograph: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga Man Booker winner Anna Burns’s ‘Milkman’ sells 330,000 copies, ‘rising by thousands every day’
7 Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
8 Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson can do nothing with material that has become worse with each installment. Fifty Shades Freed: About as sexy as a 1990s ice-cream ad
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10 Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in an elevator scene in Fifty Shades Darker Bad sex in the movies: from Top Gun to Fifty Shades
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Theresa May gives a statement at Downing Street. It is easier to keep pretending that, if only May had stuck it to the Europeans in the negotiations, the perfect have-cake/eat-cake Brexit would have been delivered. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Brexit ultras haven’t the guts to do the only logical thing
(Original Caption) 'Germany: World War I Armistice: Officers celebrate at captured German canteen.' In reality, the industrial nature of the slaughter destroyed all the notions of individual heroism and chivalry. Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought
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