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For Coloured Girls

The film from Tyler Perry based on the seminal 1975 play by Ntozake Shange.

Paul Ryan exhibition

Paul Ryan's controversial exhibition No Country for Dreaming

New music from Rumer

Anglo Pakistani singer Rumer talks about her music

AfroCubism - Nick Gold

Music producer Nick Gold on the Malian and Cuban line-up he planned to record in 1996.

Arcade Fire

The Canadian band are back with their much-anticipated third album

Hector Abad

The Latin American wirter talks about his new novel

William Gibson

Talks about being bullied by his characters

Howard Jacobson wins 2010 Man Booker Prize

Anna McNamee talks to the author of The Finkler Question, a comic story of love, loss and being Jewish.

The Social Network

Creating an internet phenomenon