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CultureCritic | 20.July.2012 | 16:25

J.K. Rowling tackles adult fiction (not the 50 Shades of Grey variety)…

Shakespeare looks set to usurp Dickens as literary man of the moment this summer; the British Museum’s new exhibition opens this week and Timon of Athens at the National Theatre is impressing just about everyone…

So is The Dark Knight Rises…

Pulitzer-winner Junot Díaz has a new shorts collection out in September…

Folkies festival of choice Green Man kicks off next month. Look out for CultureCritic favourites Lower Dens and tUnE-yArDs…

… and the news that Julianna Barwick is heading over to the UK in November reminds us that OMBRE’s debut album (pictured below) is out next month. We’ve heard it, it’s great.

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Cinema

91%	Grave Of The Fireflies (25th Anniversary)
86%	Behind the Candelabra
82%	Much Ado About Nothing
79%	Our Children
78%	A Hijacking
75%	In the House
74%	The Gatekeepers
72%	In the Fog
70%	Thursday Till Sunday
69%	Good Vibrations
68%	A Late Quartet
68%	Rebellion
68%	Man of Steel
66%	The Stoker
66%	Spring Breakers

Recorded music

85%	James Blake - Overgrown
85%	Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
84%	Sigur Ros - Kveikur
84%	Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
84%	The National - Trouble Will Find Me
83%	Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
81%	Colin Stetson - New History of Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
80%	Savages - Silence Yourself
79%	Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
79%	Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
78%	Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
78%	Big Deal - June Gloom
78%	Phoenix - Bankrupt!
77%	Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
76%	Deerhunter - Monomania

Books

86%	Iain Banks - The Quarry
82%	Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
80%	WG Sebald - A Place in the Country
78%	James Salter - All That Is
76%	James Robertson - The Professor of Truth
76%	John le Carré – A Delicate Truth
76%	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
75%	Lionel Shriver - Big Brother
75%	Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs
75%	Gill Hornby - The Hive
74%	Julian Barnes - Levels of Life
72%	Amity Gaige - Schroder
71%	Taiye Selasi - Ghana Must Go
70%	Paul Auster & JM Coetzee - Here and Now
70%	Louise Erdrich - The Round House

Exhibitions

96%	Life and Death Pompeii and Herculaneum
84%	Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan
81%	David Bowie is
76%	Patrick Caulfield
75%	Saloua Raouda Choucair
64%	Ellen Gallagher: AxME
55%	George Catlin: American Indian Portraits

Theatre

92%	Chimerica
87%	Merrily We Roll Along
82%	Othello
80%	As You Like It
78%	The Book of Mormon
76%	Strange Interlude
75%	Passion Play
68%	Children of the Sun
63%	Sweet Bird of Youth
56%	Race

Opera & Dance

Ads

90%	Death in Venice
48%	The Perfect American