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  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
    Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

    The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judged
  • Barenboim has not conducted in the UK since 2019.

    Proms 2024
    BBC unveils lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco

    The 81-year-old conductor makes a rare UK visit with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, while Yo-Yo Ma, Doctor Who, Florence Welch, Sam Smith and Rule, Britannia! all feature
  • Dylan and Ayala in Growing Up Jewish.

    TV review
    Growing Up Jewish – wildly inappropriately lightweight for our times

    You will laugh and may cry watching these charming youngsters prepare for their bar and batmitzvahs – but with antisemitism on the rise, this film feels bizarrely flimsy
  • Sarcasm and the supernatural … Anjli Mohindra as Grace Narayan in The Red King.

    TV review
    The Red King – like a wickedly playful new spin on The Wicker Man

    Anjli Mohindra is marvellous as a cop shunted off to a remote island, only to find a strange lawless land full of pagan – possibly satanic – rituals. Then a body turns up and all bets are off
    • Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur at Tramway, Glasgow.

      This Turner prize shortlist is one in the eye for petty nationalists

      Adrian Searle
    • Women's prize for fiction shortlist 2024.

      Women's prize for fiction
      Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad among shortlist

    • On the way to Santa Paula … the road trip from LA in an old Merc.

      My best shot
      The photography studio with four wheels and a sunroof

    • Children playing the OG Game Boy in 1989.

      Pushing Buttons
      Readers’ memories of the game-changing Game Boy at 35

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News

  • Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser in an auction house.

    Gustav Klimt
    Lost painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna

    Unfinished Portrait of Fräulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subject
  • (from left)( Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller and Penelope Cruz in Zoolander 2.

    Ben Stiller
    I was blindsided by Zoolander 2 flopping

  • Rebel Wilson.

    Rebel Wilson
    Memoir to be published in UK with Sacha Baron Cohen passages redacted

  • Megan Thee Stallion
    Rapper accused of ‘abusive work environment’ including sexual harassment

  • Film
    Multiple crew members hospitalised after accident on set of Eddie Murphy film

  • Ivor Novellos
    Sampha, Yussef Dayes and Daniel Pemberton top nominations

  • Studio Ghibli
    Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

  • Music
    Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

  • Film
    Soiled nappies and karate: AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

Reviews

  • Portrait Franz Kafka

    Book of the day
    Diaries by Franz Kafka – caught in the act

  • ‘We are no closer to ridding ourselves of these terrible predators’ … Paul Gadd in Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile.

    Television
    Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile – a most sickening nostalgia trip

    This relentless documentary takes us back in time to meet the women abused by glam-rock star Gary Glitter as children … and the roadies who tried to stop him (and set his wig on fire) 25 years before he finally got caught
  • David Nicholls.

    Books
    You Are Here by David Nicholls – a well-mapped romance

    A midlife couple take a hike through the Lake District in this witty and likable crowd-pleaser
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Regulars

  • ‘My whole stance was world domination’ … Breakin’ Convention.

    How we made
    ‘We have to have graffiti!’ How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

    ‘At the first one, we had DJs in the foyer and people were jumping in to battle with the dancers. We took out seats to make more standing room and the noise was crazy’
  • CMAT, AKA Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson.

    On my radar
    On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

  • ‘Nothing’s passed me by’ … Sheila E pictured at home

    Music
    ‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’ Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more

  • Shirley MacLaine
    Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!

  • My best shot
    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra: Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘It’s really saying you’re not gorgeous at all’: how Babybird made You’re Gorgeous

Staying in

  • Talia preps for her batmitzvah in Growing Up Jewish.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: the fascinatingly diverse world of bar and bat mitzvah

  • Daniel Zolghadri in Funny Pages.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Funny Pages to Phil Spector: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Owen Kline’s coming-of-age tale is very funny and endlessly excruciating, and Al Pacino plays the music producer on trial for murder with relish
  • Consigned to hell for decades … Dead Boy Detectives.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Dead Boy Detectives to Secrets of the Octopus: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Teenagers who solve paranormal mysteries from beyond the grave – yes really – and a beautiful and psychedelic show about our fascinating deep-sea friends
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Pictures & video

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Greetings from New York
    AIPAD’s The Photography Show

    A cover shoot for New York magazine and the subversive work of Lee Miller join a selection from top galleries at Aipad’s photography bonanza
  • THRESHOLDS at the German Pavilion & La Certosa.

    Venice Biennale 2024
    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked German

  • Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Winner, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • My best shot
    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra

  • All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

  • ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

  • Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards – in pictures

  • The Guardian picture essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

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You may have missed

  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’
    David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

    He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school
  • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

    ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’
    Inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

  • ‘My whole stance was world domination’ … Breakin’ Convention.

    ‘We have to have graffiti!’
    How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

  • It could all have been prevented so easily … Richard Gadd with Jessica Gunning, who plays his stalker, in Baby Reindeer.

    The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
    Should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

  • Fern Brady Autistic Bikini Queen

    Comedy
    With her Netflix special Autistic Bikini Queen, Fern Brady is a cynic to savour

  • Efficiency and wit … Taylor Swift.

    Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department
    Fame, fans and former flames in the line of fire

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