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By Igor Toronyi-Lalic

This week Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about his ominous new vision of Cornwall. Rod Liddle is pleased to find Iggy Pop in bilious mood. Deborah Ross watches an explosive new film – with an Oscar-winning lead performance. James Walton is compelled by a doc about one of the strangest figures in pop history. Laura Gascoigne finds it hard to overstate how understated Giorgio Morandi’s still lifes are. And Lloyd Evans hails a new play at the National that the National seems to dislike... Enjoy!

Petrol, seawater and blood: the horror of Cornwall

Tanya Gold

Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about Enys Men

Gobbets of bile and hard-bitten wisdom: Iggy Pop’s Every Loser reviewed

Rod Liddle

The delightful contrarian sprays profanities about with abandon on his latest album

Clever and witty state-of-the-nation play: Kerry Jackson, at the Dorfman Theatre, reviewed

Lloyd Evans

Plus: at the Ambassadors Theatre a popular new play full of surreal, off-beat flourishes

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Guiltily compelling: Spector, on Sky Documentaries, reviewed

James Walton

Plus: on BBC2 a titillating glimpse into a world we normally only see in shows like Succession

Other artists’ still lifes may be showier, but none are as companionable as Giorgio Morandi’s

Laura Gascoigne

The Estorick Collection’s new show also includes the artist’s distinct gauzy etchings

A. E. Stallings: This Afterlife

In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith’s guest is the distinguished poet A. E. Stallings, whose new selected poems This Afterlife marks her first UK publication in book form. She discusses why the idea that formal verse is stuffy is wrong, how she thinks Greek myth is a living tradition, and why women poets have to be both Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Riveting: Tár reviewed

Deborah Ross

Cate Blanchett is masterful as the fictional maestro Lydia Tár

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