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Assignment – share your images
of what ‘energy’ means to you at
witness.theguardian.com
Gallery – vintage National
Th eatre posters
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Showcase –
original photography
commissioned for the
Observer last month
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artanddesign
Architecture
Rowan Moore on how Frank
Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao
- now 20 years old – became a
symbol for urban regeneration
Photography
Alex Clark on Amélie actor
Audrey Tautou’s self-portraits
Interview
Games of Th rones star Natalie
Dormer talks to Kathryn Bromwich
On my radar Th eatre director
Marianne Elliott’s
cultural highlights
Q&A Teenage Labour
activist Lauren Stocks
David Mitchell
Photobook Th e universe as
seen in astronomy and art
Climate change British artist John
Akomfrah on his ambitious new fi lm
John Naughton Is Facebook about
to revive the company town?
Fascinating article (Th e new science
of sleep, cover story, last week). I
would love to know Matthew Walker’s
take on mending the body after
periods of extreme sleep deprivation,
for example, the sleep patterns of
parents of young babies. I think back
to those times of exhaustion with
a shudder. Can the body ever fully
recover from this?
Eist, posted online
Alarming. I am a shift worker and lucky
if I sleep four to fi ve hours a night. I can
already see the eff ect it is having on
my health. However, it’s diffi cult to see
what I can realistically do about it – I
need to earn a living.
trundlesome
Read this. Slept 7.5 hours last night.
Felt focused and productive. And no, I
don’t care if it’s the placebo eff ect.
@_davideast on Twitter
Th e greater respect, freedom and
authority of the writer in TV now,
compared with Hollywood, is why
fi rst-rate actors are happy to work on
premium TV shows (Secrets of the
writers’ room, last week).
swiftpope
An absolutely beautiful piece (My
absent friend, last week). I have read
all of Bruce Chatwin’s work except
for some of the letters. His sensibility
was extraordinary. He was just
preternaturally curious about culture ,
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language and history. One of the
greatest writers of his time.
barbkay
Bruce the person calls to mind Mark
E Smith of the Fall. He treated some
of those around him thoughtlessly,
but they all say that they would go
back in an instant in order to savour
the strange genius of someone who is
genuinely heterodox and unique.
greenmill
We are naturally closer to hunter-
gatherers than we think (Th e Naked
Ape at 50, last week). We probably
overrate our own intelligence and
sophistication. For proof, just take a
look around at the world we live in.
Drowning in plastic... on the brink of war.
EdwardNorfolk
Angela Saini is doing good work
debunking some of the mythology
passing as science in the subject of
gender diff erences, but she should
judge Desmond Morris on what was
known in 1967. If we knew then what
we know now, Morris would have
written a very diff erent book.
arkley
Th e 1960s opened up a schism
between accepted explanations and
new thoughts on various subjects. Th e
Naked Ape was a counter to those who
thought that religious ideology should
still control lives.
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Mark Kermode’s verdict on
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Laura Cumming on the Turner prize
Kitty Empire on Miley Cyrus’s
new album and Lorde
live in London
Euan Ferguson on
Th e Child in Time
Kate Kellaway on
ENO’s new Aida
Robert McCrum on a long-overdue
life of Anthony Powell
Sam Leith reviews Martin Amis
collection of essays
Tim Adams on John Banville’s
sequel to Portrait of a Lady
Katharine Norbury on Robert
Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s
Th e Lost Words
Alison Flood’s thriller of the month
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