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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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AGENDA 3-5 FEATURES 6-15 SCIENCE & TECH 17-

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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