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J Cole: The Fall Off review – rap legend’s final album is a self-obsessed hip-hop history lesson

(Interscope)Bowing out after six consecutive US No 1 albums, Cole references rap greats and even conjures a convo between Biggie and 2Pac – but the lens rarely strays from himself

The Guardian - UK

Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’

The writer on bingeing Henry James, his friendship with Benjamin Zephaniah and a confidence-boosting classic

The Guardian - UK

Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?

The trend for cultural reappraisal could risk upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle

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‘It’s about total freedom’: Jeff Wall on his photographs of fallen horse riders and flooded graves

A new exhibition displays 40 years of work by the artist who stages scenes to painstakingly replicate the images in his mind – and some, he says, are definitely easier than others

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The audacity of Kamala Harris’ laughter – and the racist roots of Trump’s derision

Just when the summer uproar over Donald Trump calling his potential rival “Laffin’ Kamala” and “Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris” was beginning to subside, an apparent new round of attacks by Trump and other Republicans has emerged after their initial U.S. presidential debate.

The Conversation

Kamala's cackle: Harris gets last laugh

Donald Trump may be irreparably triggered by the joy of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

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A century on from Rhapsody in Blue, debates about cultural ‘theft’ rage still

Societies are robbed of subtlety and depth when racism is conflated with the borrowing of ideas

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Advice from a critic: Read 'Erasure' before seeing 'American Fiction'

With the first Percival Everett-inspired screen adaptation American Fiction coming to theaters starting on Dec. 15, we're taking a moment to revisit his provocative and affecting satirical novel.

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Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson made a suggestion during the 1963 March on Washington − and it changed a good speech to a majestic sermon on an American dream

Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.

The Conversation

Cormac McCarthy's fearless approach to writing

Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13, 2023, at the age of 89, is often characterized rather narrowly as a Southern writer, or perhaps a Southern Gothic writer.

The Conversation

6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 – became a federal holiday in 2021. In honor of this year’s Juneteenth, The Conversation reached…

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