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Music

Elvis Costello and the Roots: Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs

Alexis Petridis: Elvis Costello and the Roots are a surprisingly good fit on this eerie, angry collaboration
Film

David Cronenberg: 'I never thought of myself as a prophet'

Interview: The film director on death, predicting the future and Martin Scorsese being terrified of him

Books

Why this is the best Booker shortlist in a decade

Sarah Churchwell: Nothing can account for the sheer intensity of feeling and intelligence of ideas in this year's lineup
Photography

Garry Fabian Miller: Sea Horizons

Gallery: A series of photographs made in 1976 and 1977 by Garry Fabian Miller captures the dark and strange serenity of the sea and sky
Art and design

A journey through subcultural London

Video: Adrian Searle visits the ICA's new off-site project, which explores subcultures in London from New Romantics and acid house to the present day
Television and radio

Better Call Saul has what it takes to be a superior spinoff

Comment: Breaking Bad's Saul Goodman is a lawyer who's dodgier than his clients – and fertile ground for the prequel's writers

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Toronto film festival 2013: Sunshine on Leith and Life of Crime - video review

Catherine Shoard waves goodbye to Toronto as the city's 38th annual film festival comes to a close. As a parting shot Catherine reviews Dexter Fletcher's Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith and Life of Crime, the last film adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel before he died

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The Brisbane festival podcast: coming soon

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Tash Aw, Jonathan Coe and the best autumn fiction – books podcast

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In pictures

Mercury Prize 2013: the odds - in pictures

Gallery (12 pictures)
After Allende: Chile 40 years on - in pictures

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Latest culture news

Author Terri Bruce stops publisher selling error-strewn books

13 Sep 2013: Terri Bruce claimed that Eternal Press introduced 260 mistakes to her novel Thereafter and made her sound like 'an illiterate git'
ICA takes journey through London's post-punk subculture

13 Sep 2013: Space above Selfridges foodhall is filled with evidence of capital's unofficial underground cultures of past 30 years
Portrait of jockey Katie Walsh shortlisted for Taylor Wessing prize

13 Sep 2013:
Spencer Murphy's image of jump jockey after race is one of four contenders for prize at National Portrait Gallery
Bonnie Prince Charlie: it's a dog's life

12 Sep 2013:
<strong>Alex von Tunzelmann:</strong> Producer Sam Goldwyn thought Anthony Kimmins's tale of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion was about a lovable Scots terrier. Frankly, it might as well have been
Nicki Minaj sued by mystery man for copyright infringement

12 Sep 2013:
Rapper's hit Starships plagiarised music from Clive Tanaka's Neu Chicago, according to lawsuit
Geri Halliwell returns to making music – in Australia

12 Sep 2013: Spice Girls singer's role as judge on Australia's Got Talent leads to her return to the musical fray
The World Before Her: women learning to kill or wear a bikini in India - video extracts

12 Sep 2013: Video (5min 48sec)
Nisha Pahuja's documentary contrasts a Hindu nationalist training camp where girls are trained to kill in self-defence and the bikini-clad women of the Miss India pageant

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Sting: 'Have you ever heard me complain?'

13 Sep 2013:
He happily admits to being a pretentious yogic high-flyer who wound people up with talk of his tantric sex life. He talks to Rob Fitzpatrick about his first album in nearly a decade and a musical on Broadway
And the winners of the Celebrity Spectacle Wearer of the Year awards are …

13 Sep 2013: Rylan Clark and his amazing teeth-and-glasses combination merited praise, but when it comes to pointless awards ceremonies, there are always so many to choose from
John Turturro on nuns, Woody Allen and middle-aged sex

13 Sep 2013:
Actor John Turturro plays a sex worker in his new film, with Woody Allen as his pimp. He tells Catherine Shoard about middle-aged sex and why religion is erotic
Jennifer Coolidge: 'I like milf, not cougar'

13 Sep 2013:
From American Pie's hot mom to Austenland's trussed-up romantic, the comic actor talks Upstairs Downstairs, online dating and dead parrots
Channel 4's Dispatches on Cyril Smith is uncomfortable but powerful viewing

13 Sep 2013:
Mark Lawson: The Paedophile MP: How Cyril Smith Got Away with It highlights the similarities between his story and that of Jimmy Savile – and the TV culture that turned a blind eye
Dive In (No 1,595)

13 Sep 2013:
Ever wondered what a boy band produced by Dave Fridmann might sound like?
Grandma's House – box set review

13 Sep 2013:
David Renshaw: Simon Amstell's venture into writing and acting was a brave move – and it paid off in this often hilarious semi-autobiographical sitcom

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Talking points

- It's time for science fiction to face up to discrimination
  
  David Barnett: Why are most SF authors straight, white western men? Science fiction writers can't ignore the diversity that exists on planet Earth

He has a visual aesthetic: a bit cold, removed, glacial, but always beautiful, and conceptually sound, that was a really big influence on me for a few years. Probably the ultimate contrary hipster. I would like to see what he could do if he wasn't obsessed with hiding any warmer emotion or message in his work. Though he would have to reveal a bit of himself, become a bit more vulnerable, and I don´t think that would happen.
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commenting on Peter Saville: the UK's most famous graphic designer

- Stoner: A Novel by John L Williams reviewed by stpauli
  
  His story is executed in such beautiful, gentle, precise yet understated prose that I found it profoundly moving and at times, almost unbearably sad
  - Write your own book review

- Doris by Earl Sweatshirt reviewed by Crisky
  
  Like a young DOOM, Earl's unorthodox, self-deprecating rolling flow is the freshest thing since Protect Ya Neck was passed around St John's school in the early nineties.
  - Write your own album review

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TV and radio blog

Peaky Blinders recap: episode one

13 Sep 2013:
Julia Raeside's episode blog: This Birmingham-set gangster drama is British telly trying to do US-style box set viewing. But it's styled like a John Lewis ad with almost as many cliches. Will you keep watching?
Music blog

Readers recommend: songs about nerds and geeks

13 Sep 2013:
Bookish, unsporty, obsessional, routinely mocked – and likely to go far in life. Help us find the best songs about geeks, nerds and assorted outcasts
Theatre blog with Lyn Gardner

Which actors pass the telephone-directory test?

13 Sep 2013:
The old adage says that some actors are so mesmerising that people would flock to watch them even if they were reading the telephone directory. Tell us who you would pay to see in any show
Jonathan Jones on art

Analyse this: has Freud's sofa become a religious relic?

13 Sep 2013:
Jonathan Jones: In London, the Freud Museum is inviting the public to watch them restore the psychoanalyst's famous couch. Meanwhile, an exhibition of Klimt and Schiele paintings evoke the sensuality of Vienna in Freud's time
TV and radio blog

Channel 4's Dispatches on Cyril Smith is uncomfortable but powerful viewing

13 Sep 2013:
Mark Lawson: The Paedophile MP: How Cyril Smith Got Away with It highlights the similarities between his story and that of Jimmy Savile – and the TV culture that turned a blind eye

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The Blueblack Hussar – review

13 Sep 2013: Adam Ant has lost the warpaint but this intriguing documentary finds his dandyish, swashbuckling nature intact, writes Mike McCahill
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Def Leppard Viva! Hysteria – review

13 Sep 2013: British heavy metal takes Las Vegas by storm in this concert movie, but a better film might have explored the musicians' off-stage dynamics more, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Sir Billi – review

13 Sep 2013: Scotland's most famous knight took a special interest in this tale of an wildlife-saving vet, but the results are tame

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Arts head: Steven Bode, Film and Video Umbrella

The director talks artists' film and video, from advances in technology to moving-image art being taken more seriously
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When did creative writing eat itself?

Was the experimental novel killed by the creative writing course, the conservatism of publishing and awards – or are both linked?
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