Hamilton comes to London, Sherlock villain Andrew Scott adds Hamlet to his CV, Damian Lewis falls in love with a goat, and Ivo van Hove directs Jude Law in a tale of lust, greed and murder
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Seven baby monkeys died from poisoning at US research center | Animal experimentation
Animal experimentation This article is more than 4 years oldSeven baby monkeys died from poisoning at US research centerThis article is more than 4 years oldYoung primates died after contact with toxic dye‘Invasive and deadly experiments … must end’ say campaignersSeven infant monkeys were accidentally poisoned and died at one of the largest primate research centers in the US, internal documents shared with the Guardian have revealed.
The young macaques died after their mothers were marked with dye at the University of California, Davis, primate research laboratory.
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Sudan court sentences three men to hand amputation for stealing | Global development
Global development This article is more than 11 months oldSudan court sentences three men to hand amputation for stealing This article is more than 11 months oldThe verdict, the first of its kind in almost a decade, has shocked many who fear country is sliding back into state extremism
Three Sudanese men have been sentenced to hand amputation for stealing, the first time in almost a decade that such a punishment has been handed down in the country’s courts.
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Whos running for president in 2024? The Republican and Democratic candidates | US elections 2024
US elections 2024Who’s running for president in 2024? The Republican and Democratic candidatesDonald Trump leads a big field of Republican hopefuls seeking to best Joe Biden or one of his long-shot challengers in the 2024 election
The 2024 election promises to be historic as a long slate of Republican candidates seek to unseat the sitting president, Joe Biden. After the pandemic changed the way Americans campaigned and voted four years ago, and three years after thousands of rioters waged violent protest at the nation’s Capitol to upend the last election’s results, the US will face new obstacles in carrying out the democratic process.
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Don Paterson: Poetry often involves obsessive personalities | Don Paterson
Books interviewDon PatersonInterviewDon Paterson: ‘Poetry often involves obsessive personalities’Kate KellawayThe award-winning poet on his painful and funny new memoir about growing up in Dundee, how he’s a ‘vile separatist’ and why music is his first love
Don Paterson, 59, is one of our most outstanding poets, a winner of the Whitbread poetry prize, the Costa poetry award, all three Forward prizes, the TS Eliot prize (twice), and the Queen’s gold medal for poetry.
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Its pok, man: the ultimate hipster-food glossary
FoodKnow your khachapuri from your Kalettes with our handy guide to the coolest, most obscure and sometimes ludicrous food trends
Modern food moves at a bewildering pace. Where once, influences from star chefs would disseminate slowly and new products could take years to establish themselves, today rare ingredients and new dishes can proliferate online, globally, almost instantly. On Instagram, a coalition of food nerds – not just chefs, but (amateur) bakers, baristas, brewers and artisan producers – are generating a creative frenzy of new ideas and potential break-out trends.
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John Fordham | The Guardian
John Fordham is the Guardian's main jazz critic. He has written several books on the subject, reported on it for publications including Time Out, Sounds, Wire and Word, and contributed to documentaries for radio and TV. He is a former editor of Time Out, City Limits and Jazz UK, and regularly contributes to BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3
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Lady of Lesbos | Sappho
London Review of BooksSapphoLady of LesbosPoet, courtesan, bisexual, victim... Emily Wilson looks beyond the labels for the essence of SapphoIf Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson Virago, 397 pp, £12.99
The Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds Palgrave, 311 pp, £19.99
Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong Norton, 320 pp, US $24.95
Some time around the ninth century, Sappho's nine books were irrecoverably lost. We have some tantalising scraps, single lines and short quotations, but only one complete poem - the "
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Phyllis Latour obituary | Second world war
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The Boulting brothers: holy fools
BFIIn the 1940s and 50s, the Boulting brothers won over filmgoers and critics with a series of classics – from Brighton Rock to Private's Progress. As the BFI begins a retrospective, Michael Newton explores their version of BritainThe history of the Boulting brothers is the history of British cinema in miniature. The brilliance, the comforts and the disappointments are all there. In the 1940s, they take off from documentary realism to reach the heights of noir extravagance, before falling back into a gently unexciting worthiness.
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