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Oh James Graham is having the time of his life!

Patti Smith talks art, drugs (‘I never had speed, I have a high metabolism’), Kamala and her reconciliation with the daughter she gave up for adoption aged 19 - great Venice-flavoured interview by Kate Mossman thetimes.com/article/847284…

I spoke to British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi about shooting her first feature in the West Bank, Stanley Kubrick and why her father won’t watch her film thetimes.com/article/bf18d7…

Was lucky to know Tom Grass, who died too soon - today sees the launch of a writing prize in his name, fiction and non fiction, for emerging writers. If that’s you, please enter thebookseller.com/news/the-tom-g…

Cracking big thoughtful / hopeful piece by melissa denes about children reading. Great helpful shoutout to Bunny V Monkey Jamie Smart

Have kids fallen out of love with reading? I talked to ⁦the brilliant Frank Cottrell-Boyce⁩ ⁦Sam Leith 🐝⁩ ⁦Jeffrey Boakye⁩ ⁦Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky⁩ and felt a) more optimistic and b) more angry about English GCSEs thetimes.com/article/a08874…

Hard agree - Manville’s Jocasta is especially upsetting and moving, but an engrossing production all round

This is great, on the radical clarity of Gisèle Pelicot

Lovely piece on the benediction of Bob Dylan - went to my first ever gig with low expectations and it felt momentous and fresh

Terrific long read by my former fellow New Stateswoman Sophie McBain on the science, optimism and parents driving a big increase in the survival rate of babies born at 22 weeks - in ‘the grey zone’ theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Solidarity with friends and former colleagues at the Guardian and Observer, whose loss or dilution would put a huge hole in news, comment, cultural coverage and Sundays. The two papers have been fully blended on the site for so long that few readers realise how much will go

Watched three eps of Adolescence with my 14yo this weekend - the last as taut as the best theatre. Here’s co-creator Stephen Graham on where it came from (free to read today): Stephen Graham on Adolescence: ‘We don’t know what kids do in their rooms’ thetimes.com/article/843114…

So sad to hear this. Duncan was a brilliant reporter and a lovely man - I loved working with him on his definitive account of the Hatton Garden robbery: nobody knew the accused like he did theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/j…