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India Lewis

Articles By India Lewis

Julia Holter, Islington Assembly Hall review - shelter from the storm in experimental delight

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Jeff Young: Wild Twin review - a box of tricks

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Since Yesterday review - championing a neglected female music scene

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Claire Messud: This Strange Eventful History review - home is where the heart was

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Travels Over Feeling: The Music of Arthur Russell, Barbican review - a sublime evening undercut by tonal shifts

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Heather McCalden: The Observable Universe review - reflections from a damaged life

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Andrew O'Hagan: Caledonian Road review - London's Dickensian return

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Sheila Heti: Alphabetical Diaries review - an A-Z of inner life

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John Francis Flynn, The Dome review - new trad and taped tin whistles

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Lankum, Roundhouse review - a warm evening of folk mastery

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This Is The Kit, Barbican review - familiarity and charm

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Charlie Porter: Bring No Clothes - Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion review - dress to impress

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Annie Ernaux: Shame review - the translation of pain

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Tirzah, The Colour Factory review - dry ice and bedroom beats

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Zadie Smith: The Fraud review - the trials we inherit

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Henry Hoke: Open Throat review - if a lion could speak

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