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Steve Rose

@steverose7.bsky.social

Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, tech, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, etc. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose

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Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social · 20h ago

I teach non-fiction writng at @faberacademy.bsky.social and one of my students wrote a brilliant piece as a homework assignment. I invited an editor from The Guardian to talk to the students and that is how that story ended up in the paper today. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love

Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds

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Steve Rose@steverose7.bsky.social · 22h ago

I spoke to Gil Durán about his new book THE NERD REICH, on Silicon Valley fascism and its roots iin a combination of extreme wealth, messianic narcissism and batshit right wing ideologies. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Steve Rose@steverose7.bsky.social · 7d ago

I spoke to MICHAEL THOMAS, who's back 20 years after his award-winning debut with an intensely personal yet dazzlingly expansive memoir, which details his "perfect storm" of traumas and explains his long absence. It's an incredible read. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

‘I had a really crippling break’: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more

In 2006 the novel Man Gone Down made Thomas famous and won him a €100,000 prize. He expected to produce a follow-up within a year – but life had other plans

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Steve Rose@steverose7.bsky.social · last wk.

I spoke to SEAN ASTIN about surviving child stardom, his chaotic Hollywood upbringing and Lord of the Rings (miraculously unscathed) — and battling AI, etc as the new president of SAG-AFTRA. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood

His mother was an Oscar-winning actor who had been exploited from a young age; Astin appeared in The Goonies at just 13. Now, he has followed in his mother’s footsteps again as a union leader. He talk...

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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Josh Gabbatiss@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 2w ago

As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

cumulative line chart showing that UK newspapers have published 251 editorials criticising Ed Miliband since the start of 2024
Steve Rose@steverose7.bsky.social · 2w ago

Had fun talking to the legendary JOHN CARPENTER - and introducing him to Slavoj Zizek’s analysis of They Live. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/ Irony number one: Many of the people now cheering me on spent years insisting heat pumps don't work. Air conditioners ARE heat pumps. Same refrigeration cycle, same physics, running in reverse. Most modern units do both. If AC works (it does), heat pumps work (they do).