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TV reviewTelevisionReviewThis adaptation of Mo Hayder’s novel is absolutely out there. Conspiracy! Murder! Camp comedy! It’s like two shows smashed together – and the bizarre results are addictive Well. What is it that I have just watched? It’s not rare that I ask myself this question. It’s rare that it’s not rhetorical and even rarer that I ask it, desperately casting about for answers, after watching all six episodes of a series, with mounting incredulity yet growing addiction to the wildness proliferating on my screen.

A brief survey of the short storyDavid Foster WallaceA brief survey of the short story: David Foster WallaceFor all its elaborate formal tricks, Wallace’s work is marked by a deep desire for authentic connection, to his subjects and to his readers David Foster Wallace was a maximalist. His masterpiece, Infinite Jest, is a 1,000-page, polyphonic epic about addiction and obsession in millennial America. His journalism and essays, about television and tennis, sea cruises and grammar, always swelled far beyond their allotted word counts (cut for publication, he restored many of them to their full length when they were collected in book form).

The global studentStudentsMoving country every two years has made studying tough, but travel has made me who I am, writes a student blogger Read more on our global student hub How to write for Blogging Students At the end of every two years, my parents remind me to pack my belongings and I realise that the time has come again for me to say goodbye to my existing surroundings and start again in my new home.

Homes for sale with a lake or moat – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Enjoy a waterside view at these properties from Bucks to North Yorkshire Jill Papworth Main image: Fantasy : Lakes : Denham, Buckinghamshire Photograph: Strutt & Parker Fri 12 Jun 2020 02.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 12 Jun 2020 03.00 EDT Lymm, CheshireGrand, luxurious and, in places, downright OTT, this eight-bedroom lakeside house with 11 acres, helicopter hangar, 22-car garage, indoor pool, orangery, media suite and multiple chandeliers has to be seen to be believed.

Folk musicObituaryIrwin Silber obituaryEditor of Sing Out!, he spoke for many left-leaning US folk fansAt the 1964 Newport folk festival in the US, a year before he controversially went on stage with an electric band, Bob Dylan turned away from his topical, political songs to perform a more personal, introspective repertoire. Irwin Silber – who has died aged 84, and who was editor of Sing Out!, America's top folk-music magazine – published an open letter to Dylan, deploring this change.

ObituaryMarc ReisnerThe man who blew the whistle on America's western water scandalWater has always been more important than gold or silver in the history and development of the American west, but unlike the fever over precious metals it was difficult to understand or make interesting. Marc Reisner, who has died of cancer at the age of 51, changed all that. His 1986 book, Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water, did a similar job for its subject to that of Rachel Carson's seminal work on pesticides, Silent Spring (1962).

England This article is more than 2 years oldPhil Foden happy to be called the ‘Stockport Gazza’ after pre-Euros haircutThis article is more than 2 years oldMidfielder’s look similar to Paul Gascoigne’s at Euro 96‘It wouldn’t be too bad if I try to bring a bit of Gazza on the pitch’Phil Foden has said he does not mind being called the “Stockport Gazza” after inviting comparisons to the former England midfielder by dying his hair blond.

Poster poemsPoetryIs the mood of February more winter or spring, death or rebirth? We look to poets from Thomas Kinsella, Boris Pasternak and Margaret Atwood for their thoughtsAnd so we find ourselves in February, at one time the last month of the Roman calendar and a time of ritual purification by washing. In Ireland, by way of contrast, it is officially the first month of spring, and the first day of the month was Imbolc, a Celtic fire festival.

The boozer who bottled bohemia: John Deakin's Soho photography Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email His circle of friends featured Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, and he took photos of Soho's artists, writers, drifters and newsagents as we wandered from one pub to the next in the 50s and 60s. Here's a selection of his best portraits