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Film Drop // Widows by Steve McQueen
Film
Film Drop // Widows by Steve McQueen
Film

Directed by Turner prize and Oscar-winning Artist/Director Steve McQueen, we follow a group of women who are forced to pick up the criminal hot potato left by their recently deceased husbands.

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Film
Book Drop // Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Books
Book Drop // Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Books

Anthony Bourdain is an unapologetic, loud-mouthed, straight-talking, rough-around-the-edges pirate of the culinary seas, and this is where the joy in his autobiography lies.

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Books
Music Drop // Brand E by John Frusciante
Music
Music Drop // Brand E by John Frusciante
Music

The album is named after and dedicated to his late cat Maya and, for this reason, it is published under his real name.

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Music
Film Drop // Beach Rats
Film, Netflix
Film Drop // Beach Rats
Film, Netflix

The film, like Frankie, is short on words and captures a feeling more than a plot; the sensation of wistful, long summer days and nights where Frankie and his friends drift shirtless on beaches and park benches, getting high, watching girls and waiting for the days to pass.

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Film, Netflix
Music Drop // AUATC by Bon Iver
Music
Music Drop // AUATC by Bon Iver
Music

This is the song we needed right now.

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Music
Book Drop // A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Books
Book Drop // A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Books

What had initially been set up as a novel about class, ambition and society, is quietly subverted into one about abuse, suffering and the long road to recovery.

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Books
Film Drop // It’s Only the End of the World / Juste la fin du monde
Film, Netflix
Film Drop // It’s Only the End of the World / Juste la fin du monde
Film, Netflix

Based on the stage play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, this film by Xavier Dolan is about an award-winning French writer named Louis who returns to his family home for the first time in over a decade with the intention of telling them that he is dying.

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Film, Netflix
Art Drop // William Eggleston at David Zwirner Hong Kong
Art
Art Drop // William Eggleston at David Zwirner Hong Kong
Art

Born in 1939, Eggleston's distinctive pictorial style transforms the everyday into poetic images. As a pioneer of colour photography, his understanding of colour, line and composition has elevated the medium, making him widely known for increasing photography's legitimacy as an art form.

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Art
Film Drop // The Farewell
Film, Amazon Prime
Film Drop // The Farewell
Film, Amazon Prime

"Based on an actual lie", we follow Billi, an NY-based writer who moved to the US when she was six but whose grandmother "Nai Nai" still lives in China and is recently found to be dying of stage four lung cancer.

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Film, Amazon Prime
Book Drop // Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Books
Book Drop // Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Books


Kamsie's novel reimagines the Greek tragedy 'Antigone' in the story of two British-Pakistani families divided over the fate of a rebel brother who has joined ISIS. The play's messy moral conflicts - of love and obligation, justice and law, family and country - are explored in modern London, in a layered tragedy of cultural tension and radicalisation.

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Books
Film Drop // The Souvenir
Film
Film Drop // The Souvenir
Film

The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg is a 2019 semi-autobiographical film that follows a shy yet ambitious young woman, played by Honor Swinton Byrne, as she tentatively begins film school in London in the 1980s.

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Film
Music Drop | Jai Paul
Music
Music Drop | Jai Paul
Music

This music drop comes from Jai Paul, an amazing, yet elusive, British electro, R&B, pop fusion artist from Rayners Lane in London.

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Music
Film Drop | Mudbound
Film, Netflix
Film Drop | Mudbound
Film, Netflix

Mudbound is a powerful generational story of race, family, class and trauma in Jim Crow America, at a time when young men from all classes and races were returning from war to find that the normal rules that were suspended abroad, still applied back home in rural Mississippi.

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Film, Netflix
Book Drop | Linton Kwesi Johnson
Books
Book Drop | Linton Kwesi Johnson
Books

Today's drop features Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ, a Jamaican dub poet and activist. Born in Jamaica in 1952, he has lived in London since 1963. His politically-charged verse, written in transcribed Jamaican patois, is often performed over dub-reggae.

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Books
Music Drop  | Slowthai feel away ft. James Blake & Mount Kimble
Music
Music Drop | Slowthai feel away ft. James Blake & Mount Kimble
Music

A musical collaboration between three UK artists; the rapper @slowthai, musician @jamesblake and the electronic duo @mountkimbie.

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Music
Books | Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Books
Books | Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Books

Good Morning, Midnight follows the escapades of Sasha Jansen, a middle-aged English woman returning to Paris after a prolonged absence. She brings with her the ghosts of an unhappy marriage, financial turmoil and the grief of losing a child.

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