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Art
Saturated in Sight and Sound:

As the late and much-loved Katy Dove’s work is celebrated in a major exhibition, Neil Cooper talks to Graham Domke and Anne Marie Copestake about this most playful and visionary of artists

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Books
How I write:

By Jean Findlay

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Collaborations
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The pipeline:

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.

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Film
Down the rabbit hole:

Nathanael Smith on Star Wars’ affinity with animation

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Ideas
America cuts its throat:

Lisa Locascio wakes up to the full, painful horror of the Trump ascendancy

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Music
Checkmate Savage:

The Phantom Band’s genre defying debut is as thrilling as the day it was released in 2009, writes Neil Cooper

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Round room:

by Dominic Howell

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Poetry
Cmon feel the neuz:

Neil Cooper on the beat/punk roots of Neu! Reekie!

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