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Editor at The Londoner ~hannah@the-londoner.co.uk Freelance arts and culture at the New Yorker/FT/Atlantic/Granta/Guardian etc etc ~h.katewilliams@gmail.com

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‘Train Dreams’ Is Afraid Of Its Own Shadow | Defector By now, you have probably heard about Train Dreams. Since premiering this past January at Sundance, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella has been lauded by critics, screened at…

The movie adaptation of 'Train Dreams' is something palatable, a safe choice between seasons of 'Yellowstone.' defector.com/train-dreams...

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Gift of Thomas Arndt

Gift of Thomas Arndt

The Son of God, Pilsen, Chicago https://www.artic.edu/artworks/159919/

06.12.2025 14:39 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
anna's castle (law office), 6th avenue, ouray, colorado, 1991

anna's castle (law office), 6th avenue, ouray, colorado, 1991

anna's castle (law office), 6th avenue, ouray, colorado, 1991

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Shop front with large novelty mouse and cheese sculpture on roof of Atomic Pest Control

Shop front with large novelty mouse and cheese sculpture on roof of Atomic Pest Control

Atomic Pest Control, Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis (2009)

Photo: William Bearden / Memphis Public Libraries

26.10.2025 13:10 👍 52 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Quilt with stylised simple figures and significant symbols

Quilt with stylised simple figures and significant symbols

Harriet Powers (1839 -1910), African-American former enslaved woman, folk artist, quilt maker from Georgia who used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts #WomensArt #BlackHistoryMonth

23.10.2025 13:04 👍 515 🔁 85 💬 0 📌 4

One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.

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"I remember hundreds of photos and videos of brothers, sisters, fathers—people whose faces say they are no longer of this world even as they remain in it." Mary Turfah on Gaza and the limits of war photography in LARB Quarterly, no. 46: Alien. https://lareviewofbooks.org/edition/alien/

14.10.2025 13:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

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If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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A truly bizarre piece

12.10.2025 22:58 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

yes, as mentioned i know why news is printed in this way. but *all* articles on the bbc website are written in this way - no matter if features or op columns

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Aside from the content of this, I will never understand the BBC's insistence on one sentence paras in non-breaking news articles. Do they think their readers are near illiterate?

06.10.2025 10:30 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
silver grill cafe, alberton, montana, 1987

silver grill cafe, alberton, montana, 1987

silver grill cafe, alberton, montana, 1987

06.10.2025 04:36 👍 171 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2

Stunning diva

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How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down For Gaza Hundreds of thousands blocked ports and roadways to demand an end to military collaboration with Israel.

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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iceberg restaurant, tulsa, oklahoma, 1979

iceberg restaurant, tulsa, oklahoma, 1979

iceberg restaurant, tulsa, oklahoma, 1979

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Exclusive: Corsica Studios is closing next year Plus, Thames Waters’ wasted £500mn, arson attack on an asylum hotel and the return of one of Bermondsey’s best boozers, all in your Monday briefing

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Iconic south London club Corsica Studios is set to close next year.

Read: www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-co...

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Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

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Steam, stodge – and so much suet: I made 10 endangered British puddings. Are any actually worth saving? With many classic puddings on the verge of dying out, I set out to discover which should be back on the menu. It was a journey through some of the heaviest desserts in history

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se... Would it not have been a better idea to get somebody who can actually cook to write this... the bread and butter is completely burnt...

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I wrote about going to the Crossbones Graveyard vigil last month (non-paywalled): www.the-londoner.co.uk/honouring-lo...

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Luella Bartley was kinda the Simone Rocha of the early 2000s...

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Why is a Sky News Australia YouTube video promoting Douglas Kirk conspiracy theories showing up in Google news on London...

18.09.2025 09:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, just quite a disturbing day - hard not to come away thinking that the online space getting several degrees more mad in recent years played a big role

15.09.2025 11:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The day the right took London A special dispatch from this weekend's Unite the Kingdom rally

After a chaotic Saturday of dodging bottles and interviewing all involved, my dispatch from the front lines of the 'unite the kingdom' is now up - for @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-day-the-...

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👑Javier Bardem at the Emmy's yesterday. Discussing the Film Workers' for Palestine pledge: "I won't work" with any company that is in business with Israel: "I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide."
Can't stop the tide! #BDS #FreePalestine
Video: Variety

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Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Given his career as a human rights barrister, it was hoped Keir Starmer would be the PM to restore the UK’s commitment to international law. The reality tells a different story

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

29.07.2025 06:27 👍 219 🔁 98 💬 15 📌 31
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This was for sale in 2023! www.instagram.com/p/Cq-WFO3unYO/

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Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’ The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events

Good that the Guardian is calling Kirk “far right” and showings its readers his views - not “common sense”, not “conservative”, but far right conspiracy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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lexington hotel, route 13-a, lexington, new york, 1976

lexington hotel, route 13-a, lexington, new york, 1976

lexington hotel, route 13-a, lexington, new york, 1976

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