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The pain and the glory of the one-star review
Plus: the curse of being funny on Twitter, and the best thread of the year
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Duped by AI journalism
Plus: virtual girlfriends, Darth Greg, a strange apparition
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A squall for attention
Various thoughts on writing
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Writers are scared. How could they not be?
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How to craft the perfect pitch
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The strange life of a celebrity bodyguard
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What does an artist 'owe' their fans?
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Is there such a thing as a 'career' for today’s journalists?
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Digital spring-cleaning, the book of the summer, a trip to Lisbon
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Fiction's gender divide
Plus: the comedy that gets women right, and Gen Z's ingenious party trick
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What does an artist 'owe' their fans?
From Lauryn Hill to Frank Ocean
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Downtime #2
Thirty-year-old full moon energy, Soho's best dish and a Succession confession
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In our enigma era
Plus the eco-thriller I couldn't put down and the must-see theatre of 2023 (no, not James Norton's penis)
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Downtime
From the book that had me in floods to the feel-good film of the year, plus my new London bar obsession
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Face to face with a killer stan
Does Donald Glover's new Amazon Prime horror about a murderous superfan ask the right questions?
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