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The city of imminent doom: why Naples is to the 2020s what Berlin was to the 1920s and London to the 1960s theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Time to clear my desk. Long Read in tomorrow’s Guardian.

My Long Read profile of a radical realist (on a good day) theguardian.com/environment/20…

I ran an interview with a softly spoken Georgian filmmaker through a transcription software and it came up with this Tarantino screenplay about a Peruvian gangster with a Business & Management MSc and a subscription to Cahiers du Cinéma.

“We are always on the look-out for something that is being created in the moment”: on promoters, the unsung heroes of German theatre theguardian.com/stage/2023/sep…

Graham Greene was ‘ready to go to jail for Lolita’, says Véra Nabokov’s diary theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

Wrote this long piece on the deaths, violence and starvation at the Poland-Belarus border, and how an ongoing humanitarian crisis has been turned into electoral capital: theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Feels like it’s time for last orders on here. Anyone got an invite for the saloon across the road?

As Europe’s energy security becomes more reliant on renewables, our relationship with the elements is changing. I spoke to four artists across the continent who work with wind. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Adania Shibli says the speech she had prepared for her awards ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair before it was cancelled was on book banning theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

Venice Biennale’s incoming rightwing director has art world guessing theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

What Hannah Arendt said about the nation-state of Israel was far more damning than anything Gessen wrote. 1) Arendt from Jerusalem in 1955: "On top of that, they treat the Arabs, those still here, in a way that in itself would be enough to rally the whole world against Israel."

Discomfort reading for January

Revealed: the artwork sneaked into a German gallery by an employee – and the story behind it theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

My piece in the Observer this morning about how Portugal’s 1974 Eurovision entry played an (accidental) pivotal role in the unfolding of the revolution. With special thanks to Commander Carlos Almada Contreiras for his time

Exclusive: film director Mohammad Rasoulof says he is in Germany after escaping an imminent 8-year jail sentence in Iran by walking across the border on foot theguardian.com/film/article/2…

‘It was incredible but it just ran over.’ This was the moment Rishi Sunak arrived for the interview having just landed back from Normandy after cutting D-Day commemorations short to return to the election campaign.