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  • Making a rukus! at Somerset House

    Art and design
    Making a rukus! review – rousing and emotional celebration of Black LGBTQ+ culture

    The rukus! Federation opens up its archives for an exhibition brimming with joy, sadness … and an incredible amount of sex
  • Michael Patrick as Richard III

    Stage
    ‘It’s a tragedy because everyone dies – not because he’s disabled’: the creatives casting Richard III in a new light

    The Lyric theatre Belfast’s new take on Richard III is produced by, and stars, disabled people. But bringing fresh authenticity to Shakespeare’s storied tragedy was not without its challenges
  • Young women browsing books on a stall in Spitalfields Market in London

    Books
    ‘I love the whole atmosphere and can spend hours browsing’: how did bookshops suddenly become cool?

  • Richard E Grant in Marvel satire, The Franchise.

    Television
    ‘It’s like Trump – how do you satirise something so ridiculous?’: Armando Iannucci’s hilarious superhero spoof

    Foul-mouthed farce The Franchise is deliciously ironic, star-packed TV with more than a hint of Succession. Its stellar team talk about why making Marvel look ludicrous is actually an act of love
    • Jeff Goldblum as Zeus in Kaos

      Television
      Kaos creator ‘gutted’ at Netflix show’s cancellation

    • Daniel Craig in No Time to Die.

      Film
      Are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out for a gen-Z 007?

    • Anna Kendrick in a green-and-gold Paisley-style blouse and a black skirt

      Interview
      ‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer

    • Coldplay’s Chris Martin performing in New York, October 2024.

      Music
      Coldplay: Moon Music review – a cloyingly upbeat ride to the heavens

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News

  • Crowds gather at Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul to purchase Han Kang's Nobel-winning novels.

    Books
    Han Kang’s books sell out as South Korea celebrates her Nobel prize in literature

    Nine of the Top 10 bestsellers in Korea’s largest bookstore chain are works by Han with her win being honoured by politicians, authors, readers and the entire country
  • A concept image from video game studio Longdue's upcoming game, a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium

    Games
    Disco Elysium ‘spiritual successor’ in development at new video game studio

  • Performance in which two women are kissing as two nuns look on.

    Opera
    Eighteen treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing

  • Heritage
    Music project captures ‘sound of carbon’ by recording in Durham coalmine

  • Books
    Imprisoned British-Egyptian activist named PEN writer of courage 2024

  • Books
    Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize

  • Music
    British musician and broadcaster Yung Filly charged with rape and assault

  • Stage
    Too much theatre memorabilia is being lost to private collectors, says David Hare

  • Music
    Lawyers for Sean Combs allege US government leaked assault footage to CNN

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Reviews

  • Elisa Verzier as Violetta in La Traviata at Glyndebourne.

    Opera
    La Traviata – perfectly pitched staging with Verzier and Federici breathtaking

  • Grant Doyle (Sam), Henry Neill (Junior), Elgan Llŷr Thomas (François) and Rowan Pierce (Dede) in A Quiet Place at the Linbury theatre.

    Classical music
    Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place – strong performances but Bernstein’s uneven pairing makes for a long evening

    Henry Neill and Wallis Giunta captivate as the miserable married couple of Bernstein’s unsettling 1952 opera, but even clear orchestration, sumptuous vocals and compelling acting can’t make the later A Quiet Place a convincing work
  • The Linda Lindas

    Music
    The Linda Lindas: No Obligation – viral LA teen punks are here to stay

    The foursome channel their blistering, rage-fuelled energy into a mature second album with hints of Foo Fighters and Olivia Rodrigo
  • Jackie Kay.

    Audiobook of the week
    May Day by Jackie Kay – family, love and activism

  • The Tapestry of Time: was the Bayeux Tapestry a record of events, or prediction for the future?

    Books
    The best recent science fiction, horror and fantasy – reviews roundup

  • MC5’s Wayne Kramer, second left, and co.

    Music
    MC5: Heavy Lifting – an enjoyable coda for Detroit’s punk pioneers

  • He sits on some stone steps among greenery

    Contemporary album of the month
    Surya Botofasina: Ashram Sun – Alice Coltrane-inspired expression of nature’s glory

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Regulars

  • Matthew Modine

    Film
    Matthew Modine: ‘The film and TV industry chews kids up and spits them out’

    The star of Full Metal Jacket and Stranger Things takes your questions on working with Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan, channelling his war hero uncle – and saving Michelle Pfeiffer’s life
  • Duran Duran in 1982, (l to r) John Taylor, Andy Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor.

    Duran Duran
    Dance into the fire! Duran Duran’s 20 greatest songs – ranked

  • The divers are just for scale’ … Ice Monster, taken on the Adélie coast in Antarctica.

    My best shot
    The hidden underside of an iceberg: Laurent Ballesta’s best photograph

  • Film
    ‘Rutger Hauer said he didn’t play bad guys’: how we made chiller classic The Hitcher

  • Honest playlist
    ‘I can’t listen to Angels – Robbie Williams stole my drummer’: James Blunt’s honest playlist

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Armando Iannucci’s cultural highlights

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

Staying in

  • Barbiemania … Matel’s star creation, Barbie

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: a shocking investigation into the bleaker side of Barbie

  • Deadly serious … Tony Hale as Ed and Anna Kendrick as Sheryl in Woman of the Hour.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Woman of the Hour to The Radleys: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Anna Kendrick directs and stars in the chilling true-life tale of a woman who goes on a dating show with a bachelor who is also a serial killer. Plus: Damian Lewis’s very bloody vampire horror
  • Danny Dyer and Lisa McGrillis in Rivals.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Rivals to Shrinking: the seven best shows to stream this week

    The 80s are back with a bang – and then some – in the sexy, starry and very silly adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkfest, plus Jason Segel’s underrated comedy with Harrison Ford returns
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    Photos of the day
    Barack Obama and the northern lights – Friday

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Frankfurt Airport, IV, 13 April 2001

    Photography
    Vera Lutter: photographs challenging the boundaries of space and time

  • girls clapping in traditional costume

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘You build a sisterhood’: training for the Mexican equestrian sport of escaramuza – photo essay

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    The hidden underside of an iceberg: Laurent Ballesta’s best photograph

  • The human towers of Tarragona – in pictures

  • Street photography
    Pipe dreams: Pau Buscató’s surreal streets – in pictures

  • On set
    ‘Noel and Julian were possibly aroused’: The Mighty Boosh turns 20 – in pictures

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

  • Travel photography
    Lost highways: an offbeat road trip through forgotten America – in pictures

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    Architecture
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    John Chowning, godfather of digital pop: ‘My wife told me: I didn’t think I’d have to compete with a computer’

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