This looks amazing. Note Inventions For Radio: The Dreams with music by Delia Derbyshire is on.

Michael Silverblatt speaks with Rudolf Wurlitzer about his 1968 novel Nog pca.st/episode/e4d1...

Matt Smith broke out in 2010 as the 11th Doctor in “Doctor Who,” a role that made him beloved. But after? “I definitely, actively went, ‘I want to go and play bad guys,’” he said in an interview. He spoke with us about playing the power-hungry Daemon Targaryen “House of the Dragon.”

A history of Resonance FM with Stewart Lee, tomorrow at 8pm BBC Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Behind the track: Loser by Beck youtube.com/watch?v=r5uV...

We spoke to George MacKay about shooting one of the year's finest films, 27 seconds at a time: www.avclub.com/george-macka...

On Nina Simone by Michael A. Gonzales magazine.waxpoetics.com/article/nina...

Frank: "I can see my money is still in your pocket which is from the yield of my labour. What gratitude? You're making big profits from my work, my risk, my sweat. But that is OK, because I elected it to make that deal. But now the deal is over. I want my end and I am out." youtu.be/ObvTZF4Qy8k?...

Before he became one of the world's most celebrated novelists, Haruki Murakami ran a jazz club in Tokyo, Peter Cat, named after his cat, from 1974 to 1981. Now, the EFG London Jazz Festival brings that world back to life. Barbican Hall, London Saturday, November 21 — 4:30pm and 8:30pm

Jonathan Cape has acquired the “thrilling and atmospheric” new novel by twice Booker-shortlisted Tom McCarthy 👇

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How 'Spider-Noir' nailed the looks of 1930s New York — in black-and-white and color

‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

One of the strangest and most fascinating discoveries I made writing my book on the history of immersive art was Russian director Nikolai Evreinov. Here's why I think the best person to compare him to today is Nathan Fielder. Both brilliant, baffling, true believers in illusion and role play!

One last push of this for the Friday lunch crowd. If book and game pairings are your things, I genuinely recommend reading The Trial while playing Titanium Court. What are some book and game pairings you'd recommend?

Excellent article and song selection, which includes a belter of a Bob Dylan cover...

Nightmare among the sand dunes— JG Ballard’s haunting 1965 sci-fi The Drought imagines a world without rain where people and escaped zoo animals scrabble for survival www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

The Rolling Stones: Foreign Tongues review — a career high, in their eighties Mick Jagger et al sing about the state of America, ‘mad mogul Mr Musk’, drugs and death in their own inimitable way on this joyful blast of a new album www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Beth Orton: ‘The Nineties, it was pretty fun, wasn’t it?’ www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

"The light in this place is really bad Like being at the bottom of a stream Any minute now I’m expecting to wake up from a dream" ~ Dreamin' of You by Bob Dylan youtu.be/63Hvny7pX8g?...

Radu Jude, the Bard of Bucharest The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you,” Bob Dylan says. On President Trump’s 80th birthday, Dylan, Liza Minelli, Robert DeNiro and more celebrity octogenarians offer some words of wisdom.

"I could fall into the safety-net of vodka and Leonard Cohen albums, safe in the reassurance of a monochrome world. When Judith was down, she got lost. She'd panic, convinced there was no way back to the light." ~ The Witnesses Are Gone by Joel Lane

"Connell's initial assessment of the reading was not disproven. It was culture as class performance... Literature, in the way it appeared at these public readings, had no potential as a form of resistance to anything." ~ Normal People by Sally Rooney

Marilyn Monroe’s face kept changing — but the camera always loved her The actress’s evolution from bright-eyed starlet to curated blonde bombshell unfolds at the National Portrait Gallery. Watch our critic’s gallery tour and read his review www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

Sufjan Stevens’ piss poems found by Penn State student “These are the poems I write when I have to take a piss really bad," Stevens wrote at the beginning of his Piss Poems chapbook. www.pastemagazine.com/music/sufjan...

6/11/75: Arthur Penn's Night Moves (NYC) New Hollywood landmark w/Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark ++ W: Alan Sharp; DP: Bruce Surtees; Ed: Dede Allen Our recent feature in Cineaste includes our interviews w/Penn, Warren, Clark & Harris Yulin: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...

When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer. His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news. Who is he?

"The stakes of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' are small until they’re the biggest stakes in the world—what’s immediately in front of you." Zosha Millman on what the show's soundtrack tells us about heroism: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/game-thrones-knight-seven-kingdoms-music-score-dunk/

Pedro Almodovar returns to his native Spain in order to direct his most overtly autobiographical film to date From Tiff Romania, which starts tomorrow: dmovies.org/2026/05/19/b...

Codex | Radiohead | From The Basement youtu.be/WWes2cDN1Ic?...

Having seen Thom Yorke and the RSC's Hamlet Hail to the Thief, when it was performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, I can thoroughly recommend this wonderful show! ✍️💀🎸 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Elena Schwarz performs John Adams's pulsating Harmonielehre, Du Yun's Hundred Heads and, with soloist Steven Banks, Billy Child's Diaspora. Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 8th May. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment of this palace tell us about the UK? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Composer Daniel Pemberton on creativity: “Developing all your own sounds… I call it mixing your own paints. ...You spend ages when you experiment. When you have time to fail, you have time to create ...Hopefully there'll be something in there that'll work.” youtube.com/watch?v=UEnG...

Just bring back Doctor Who soon enough to do the only proper casting

⚽ 🏆 🇳🇴 Norway dress as Vikings for 2026 World Cup photo The Norway team donned Viking attire for their World Cup team photo entitled "The Vikings Are Coming". Norway have qualified for a World Cup for the first time in 28 years, after winning all of their qualifying games

‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

The rare midnight photos that might reveal the ‘real’ Marilyn Monroe www.ft.com/content/5e18...

When games play you — how the best new indies subvert expectations www.ft.com/content/f9cf...

Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller discuss their new film, Project Hail Mary, with fellow Director Guillermo del Toro in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. pca.st/episode/8250...

The Times on the London Library: "Unlike most libraries of this size, you can wander freely through the 17 miles of books in the stacks, which are arranged according to the library’s idiosyncratic cataloguing system." www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Dave Depper of Death Cab for Cutie reports in on opening night of Bob Dylan's summer tour and one of the most obscure songs Bob has ever busted out live!

An English language version of a hit Welsh drama which was a huge ratings winner on S4C is to air on Channel 4 this month, featuring a host of Welsh acting talent

Thomas Bangalter: ‘Not spoiling Daft Punk became very difficult’ www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...