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  • “People think I must be really messed up. but I swear I’m a happy, well-adjusted human”, says Ella Purnell.

    Television
    ‘I can’t do gore and I’m not a gamer’: Ella Purnell on being an unlikely scream queen

  • Nataliia Ivanova in the museum

    Art and design
    ‘There is a sense of safety here’: the artists keeping culture alive in Kharkiv

    War has created a ‘new era of collaboration’ among the Ukrainian city’s creatives, with artists, poets and curators working together
  • Marina Abramović with long dark hair and wearing a red, high-necked dress, against a deep blue background

    Art and design
    Marina Abramović: ‘Describe myself? Long hair, big nose, large ass’

    The performance artist on the pleasures of sex, chocolate and cashmere – and wishing she had more time
  • Two men in suits talk and walk in a corridor

    Film
    ‘I’m fine with people bashing us’: inside the controversial Trump biopic

  • illustration of crime scene

    Books
    ‘The facts of the case were so disturbing’: Kate Summerscale on our obsession with true crime

  • Cate Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft in Disclaimer.

    Television
    Disclaimer: Cate Blanchett’s new show is either beautiful … or a schlocky nightmare

  • A portrait of Joe Locke, with short dark curly hair and wearing a dark red jacket, against a bright blue background

    Television
    ‘I want to get hate-tweeted by Donald Trump!’: Heartstopper’s Joe Locke on trolls, typecasting and turning to the dark side

Talking points

  • Bane (Tom Hardy) and Batman (Christian Bale) in The Dark Knight Rises, 2012

    Film
    Give us DC’s Deathstroke and Bane movie – it can’t be worse than Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

  • RUGRATS, Angelica, twins, Chuckie, Tommy, 1991-present<br>HDB74D RUGRATS, Angelica, twins, Chuckie, Tommy, 1991-present

    Film
    A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

    Stuart Heritage
  • Marthe Keller starred in Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora

    Film
    Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!

  • Draught beer or daft beer? … Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Shelley Long, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt in Cheers

    Television
    Not just desperate but cruel! Making a British Cheers is the stupidest TV idea yet

People

  • Alan Hollinghurst.

    Books
    Alan Hollinghurst: ‘I wrote letters to my schoolfriends in dwarfish runes’

  • ‘It was like reliving everything’ … Shiori Ito in Black Box Diaries (2024)

    Film
    ‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement

    • Paul Simon on stage at teh Royal Albert Hall in November 2016.

      Music
      ‘I never said I was going to retire ...’ Paul Simon on disability, drive and the mystery behind his greatest songs

    • a man in a cowboy and a wearing a guitar gestures with his hands

      Country music star Garth Brooks accused of sexual assault in civil lawsuit

    • David Gilmour photographed in London 2024

      Music
      David Gilmour: ‘The rich and powerful have siphoned off the majority of music industry money’

The big picture

  • A wide view of a guitar thrown in the air to the roof of a stadium taken from the stage

    Abbey Road music photography awards – the winners

    The winning images and the photographers on how they captured them

Reviews

  • Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

    Books
    The Outrun by Amy Liptrot – brutal yet poignant account of life on the edge

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Sarah Paulson in a scene from "Hold Your Breath." (Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Film
    Hold Your Breath – Sarah Paulson gets lost in scattered horror

    • Caribou, AKA Dan Snaith.

      Music
      Caribou: Honey – this AI-aided album is dubious on so many levels

    • Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke) in Heartstopper.

      Television
      Heartstopper season three – the sex scenes are handled as delicately as fine china

    • Naomi Watts in The Friend

      Film
      The Friend – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama

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Pictures & video

  • Scraps of genius … The Drift by Maeve Brennan, 2017

    Jarman award
    A wild ride! Prize nominees go on tour – in pictures

    Featuring night workers and news reports from another dimension, nominees for the prestigious prize are taking their diverse, boundary-pushing films on tour. We meet the artists up for the prize
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    Travel photography
    Lost highways: an offbeat road trip through forgotten America – in pictures

  • Muscling in on the picture … World Body Building Guild (1972-1975)

    Photography
    Bodybuilders, gravediggers and a pile-up of pugs! Group outings – in pictures

  • Photography
    Association of Photographers Awards – winners

  • Art and design
    Salons, strippers and sexy beach kisses: American street life – in pictures

  • Art and design
    ‘How would I ever make sense of this place?’: new eyes on New York – in pictures

  • Travel photography
    Subversive holiday snaps: the travels of Luigi Ghirri – in pictures

  • Photography
    ‘I think Tom was annoyed with Nicole that night’: Jonathan Becker on photographing the world’s biggest stars

  • Photography
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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