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The poet’s uncompromising second collection, about her husband’s addiction to crystal meth, is fascinating and troublingThere is always the temptation to tell it like it wasn’t when a subject is painful. Words can tinker therapeutically, be balm, re-...
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Young gang members tell their chilling, occasionally poetic stories in Everardo González’s documentary. But without seeing their faces, it’s hard to engage emotionallyThere is a faceless lack of accountability concerning gun violence in Mexico. Film-...
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It’s 20 years since they topped the charts – then fought, stagnated and imploded. But now Pete Doherty and Carl Barât are back. Was it easy recording together again? Depends who you ask …I have done battle with the Libertines three times over the pas...