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Candy Crush users spent $493m in 2013, leading to burned retinas and empty wallets. We scoured the web for tales of your app addiction The number of glassy-eyed, finger-swiping Candy Crush Saga users who live among us is staggering: 93m people play this sweet little app more than 1bn times per day.

The acclaimed artist made his way from Ghana to being feted by New Yorks high society and is now showcasing his varied work in a Chelsea exhibition The Ghanaian artist Tafa Fiadzigbe known to the art world simply as Tafa has come a long way. I grew up in the slums of Ghana,

The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah 344pp, Bloodaxe, 12 "It is tempting to describe Mahmoud Darwish's writing life through geography and history," opens the translator's preface to this remarkable book, which assembles the first three volumes Darwish published on his return to Ramallah after a 26-year exile. Yet to do so,

Kiese Laymons memoir, Heavy, is about his childhood in Mississippi and is written in the form of a letter to his single mother, an academic, who loved him but also beat him ruthlessly for fear of what white America would do to him if he wasnt perfect. In the book he comes clean about all

Released in the same year as Goodfellas, and disappearing fast as a result, the difficult prohibition-era noir deserves a fresh analysis When Millers Crossing was released 30 years ago, there emerged two competing camps on the Coen brothers, who had previously written and directed the stylish 1984 neo-noir Blood Simple and the deliriously farcical 1987