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Paradise Cinema's Jack Wyllie and Khadim Mbaye talk to Bernie Brooks about mbalax, optimism, appropriation, and the rhythms that come together on their self-titled debut LP. The interview with Khadim Mbaye was translated by Anna Wood
Written on a typewriter in the fever dream of high lockdown, Ryan Diduck’s new book for Repeater, *The Limits of Control*, is a restless meditation on discipline and mediation. In this exclusive extract he recalls Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record break at the World Snooker Championship on 21 April 1997
With Variety, Bette Gordon proved her knack for disrupting male spaces and transgressing the limits of the film noir genre. She also proved her punk-powered production is much more than "a feminist Vertigo", finds Brian Quinn
For years, Sym Gharial struggled reconciling his Sikh heritage with his love of rock & roll. Here he tells tQ how after years of poor mental health and recovering from addiction issues he was able to find a new sense of himself with a new musical project, Primitive Ignorant
In an exclusive extract from his new book, *John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures*, Yuval Etgar examines the development of the collage artist's technique, ahead of a major show of Stezaker's early work opening at Luxembourg & Co., London, at the end of the week
Young Knives' first LP in seven years sees the brothers Dartnall plumbing the depths of human darkness and emerging with by far their best record to date. They speak to Patrick Clarke about their bold new sound, and why they no longer consider themselves a 'band'