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  • Ryan Coogler, photographed in New York, April 2025

    The G2 interview
    ‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners

    The highest grossing Black film-maker of all time is known for his superhero movies and reinventing the Rocky franchise. Now he’s made his most personal film yet – and it’s a vampire thriller
  • Guardian<br>Actress Verada Sethu. MUST CREDIT: Hair - Sandra Hahnel Makeup - Clarice Gill

    Television
    ‘I can’t believe I’m paid to watch Ncuti Gatwa!’: Doctor Who’s boundary-pushing new companion, Varada Sethu

    From being crowned Miss Newcastle to making waves in Star Wars’ first same-sex couple, the Doctor’s latest assistant has had a stellar rise to fame. The actor chats stunts, space and why she’s hungry for more
  • ‘All of a sudden, they exploded’ … Prodan, centre, with his band Sumo.

    Feature
    ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

    He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the still-worshipped frontman
  • a painting of people standing on the shore of a lake

    Art
    ‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

    The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals
    • Klaas Roemers, 90, and Fenny Roemers-Visser, 86, holding hands. The photograph was taken, with permission, by their son Martin moments after their deaths. They had applied to end their lives under the Netherlands' assisted dying process

      My best shot
      My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

    • Tionne (Akins Subair), Tiana (Chenée Taylor) and Tanika (Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie) in Just Act Normal.

      TV review
      Just Act Normal – to watch this wonderful show is to see stars being born

    • A painting showing the word 'art' in capital letters, partially obscured by stylised reflections

      Art
      Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction

    • Salty Brine in These Are The Contents Of My Head at Soho theatre, London.

      Stage
      Salty Brine – daring diva mashup with hella pizzazz

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News

  • Dutch angle shot of a man in a green and black checked shirt and a red cap standing in front of a bookstore receiving a book from someone to his right and passing a book to someone on his left.

    Books
    ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

    A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront
  • A painting showing the word 'art' in capital letters, partially obscured by stylised reflections

    Art and design
    Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction

  • stack of books with the top one fanned open

    Books
    A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles

  • Film
    New details of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s final days released

  • Film
    Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage

  • Music
    The Who appear to fire drummer Zak Starkey over Royal Albert Hall performance

  • Books
    Rare letter offers glimpse into Bram Stoker’s early thoughts on Dracula

  • Blue Origin
    Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

  • Books
    Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

Reviews

  • Tionne (Akins Subair), Tiana (Chenée Taylor) and Tanika (Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie) in Just Act Normal.

    TV review
    Just Act Normal review – to watch this wonderful show is to see stars being born

  • Salty Brine in These Are The Contents Of My Head at Soho theatre, London.

    Cabaret
    Salty Brine review – daring diva mashup with hella pizzazz

    The drag queen’s latest intermingling of Annie Lennox covers, southern gothic literature, Judy Garland and family anecdotes is a bravura feat of idiosyncratic connection
  • Lou Wall, comedian

    Comedy
    Lou Wall: Breaking the Fifth Wall review – a silly and profound standup masterpiece

    Melbourne international comedy festival, then touring
    The Australian comedian’s latest show takes a straightforward story about Facebook Marketplace and unravels it into something much more meta
  • Rumi (Ramy Youssef) in a still from the animated series No 1 Happy Family USA

    Television & radio
    #1 Happy Family USA review – a truly special comedy that’s packed with 00s nostalgia

  • A frog in duckweed in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.

    Book of the day
    The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

  • actor on stage

    Book of the day
    Audition by Katie Kitamura – a literary performance of true uncanniness

  • Neil Young: Coastal

    Film
    Neil Young: Coastal – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

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Regulars

  • From a town called Porpoise Spit … Rachel Griffiths, Daniel Lapaine, Toni Collette and Bill Hunter in the 1994 favourite.

    Film
    How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’

    ‘I wanted to do an Australian Mike Leigh film. I was convinced it was terrible – but we showed it at Cannes and they went crazy. Audiences had never seen a character like that treated sympathetically’
  • Kit de Waal.

    Culture
    On my radar: Kit de Waal’s cultural highlights

  • Bassey in silver sequin gown, singing at the mic, looking fabulous

    Ranked
    She’s got the Midas touch: Shirley Bassey songs – ranked!

  • Jack O'Connell
    ‘I had to spit in Michael Caine’s face’: Jack O’Connell on Skins, impostor syndrome and stripping off

  • Photography
    A lifesaving midwife in Afghanistan: Noriko Hayashi’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘I wrote it while bored on a health farm’: how Mike and the Mechanics made All I Need Is a Miracle

Staying in

  • Jono Lancaster presents Love My Face.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: people with facial differences make a tough decision

  • Too much pressure … Pauline Black: A 2 Tone Story.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story to Twisters: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A sobering feature-length documentary chronicles the life of the singer, actor and activist’s life, plus an action-stuffed remake of a beloved 90s classic
  • Fitting in … the Hussein family remain unrelentingly upbeat despite the challenges of living in post 9/11 America.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    No 1 Happy Family USA to Sloborn: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Ramy Youssef’s warm, witty animated comedy follows the travails of a Muslim-American family who are determined to prove their loyalties to the US during a dark time for their community
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Pictures & video

  • Our impact on nature … a winning image by Zed Nelson.

    Art and design
    Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards

    Artists on the moon, gods in the sea, and guns at the ready in America … here are photographs from the overall winners of this year’s professional competition
  • At Amarah’s Al-Sadr hospital, medical staff, patients and their families struggle as busy wards overheat and tempers fray.

    Extreme weather
    Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency

  • Looking out from behind the DJs' decks at the crowd under a night sky

    Festivals
    Lady Gaga, Green Day and Enhypen: 2025 Coachella festival – in pictures

  • Photography
    Martin Parr catches the cherry blossom season in Kyoto – in pictures

  • Art and design
    ‘A place between fiction and reality’: small town dreamscapes

  • Nightlife
    ‘Everybody seemed thrilled they’d made it inside’: sizzling images from Studio 54

  • Cars
    Vroom with a view: images from behind the wheel

  • Art
    ‘They exist in a time tunnel’: photographs that look like Monet landscapes

  • Family
    ‘Their relationship has ebbed and flowed’: a father and son grow up

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You may have missed

  • ‘The machine could read the physicality of the brushstroke’ … Red Scarf, 2025.

    Painting
    ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

    Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume … American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?
  • Rev. Robert Schenck in The Dark Money Game

    Television
    ‘We’re on a knife edge’: Alex Gibney warns about the dangers of dark money

  • soliders in combat uniform with guns

    Film
    Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?

  • Jacob Elordi wearing a second world war army uniform, sitting with his shoulders slightly hunched, looking serious

    TV
    ‘We were all in it together’: Jacob Elordi on his wartime epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North

  • Here I go again … Sara Poyzer as Donna in Mamma Mia!, a role she played for 10 years.

    Stage
    Super troupers! How do stars of long-running hits from Mamma Mia! to The Lion King keep the pizzazz pumping?

  • From a town called Porpoise Spit … Rachel Griffiths, Daniel Lapaine, Toni Collette and Bill Hunter in the 1994 favourite.

    Film
    How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’

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