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It’s sometimes said that all war movies, whatever their stance, end up being propaganda for war. In The Kellerby Code, a version of the argument is made about PG Wodehouse. “Propaganda for poshos,” one character says briskly when she sees the protagonist reading The Code of the Woosters. “Every book set in an English country house is an advert for a system that fucks everyone apart from the chinny cunts who live in them.”Jonny Sweet’s debut novel, then, is very conscious of the tradition in which it stands. It’s a lurid…

Last updated: February 14th, 2024 at 18:33 UTC+01:00 Jonny Ive had long been the face of Apple's industrial design. We'd see him explain the design choices made for Apple products in his impeccable British accent at launch events. Ive's vision aligned with that of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the two famously got on very well. So it was a big deal for the company when Ive decided to leave Apple in 2019. Ive's design influence is no longer seen on Apple's devices. Some of the other members of the team have either…

Image: Dark Horse ComicsAs disciples of the riff know, it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll—a quest made even more difficult when annoyances like high school and monsters get in the way. A new Dark Horse release, The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee, brings this adventure to life, and io9 has a fun preview to share today.The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee comes from writer Rafer Roberts, artist Mike Norton (who also did the cover), colorist Allen Passalaqua, and letterer Crank! Here’s the set-up for this…

Jarak Qaribak album artwork.On their debut album, Israeli bandleader Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood fashion their own imagining of a modern Middle Eastern songbook, enlisting guest vocalists to produce new arrangements of tracks from Jordan, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco.The pair have form in updating folk traditions. Tassa’s group, Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis, have been performing versions of Iraqi standards since 2011, while Greenwood’s 2015 collaboration with the Rajasthan Express, Junun, paired sufi…

On a brisk morning in 1980, Winnie Mandela went to visit her husband on Robben Island. Nelson Mandela had been there since 1964. For years, he had only been allowed to see one visitor every six months. That day, she did not bring her usual packages of food and papers, but a single bundle: their first grandchild, only a few months old. This was a brazen violation of the rules: children or grandchildren had to be at least 16 years old to see a prisoner. The 62-year-old Mandela begged his young Afrikaner guard to let him…