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  • D‘Why are people shocked? Do they not have the same thoughts?’ … Ireland.

    Stage
    ‘I went straight to whisky at 14’: David Ireland on tackling booze on stage

    His charged dark comedies tackling the extremities of religious conflict have occasionally led to walk-outs. Will his new play – about men, alcoholism and masturbation – be just as provocative?
  • Olaf Falafel

    Edinburgh festival 2024
    ‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners

    Children’s author, YouTuber, ‘sausage bird’ designer … the comic who was born Derek Chickpeas (maybe) talks about cooking up his hilariously daft alter ego – and we pick some of his funniest gags
  • Man makes shocked face on stage while holding microphone

    Joe Rogan’s Netflix special is another tired, and unfunny, tirade

    Jesse Hassenger
    The streamer’s latest remarkably laugh-free comedy special is another procession of eye-rolling jokes about cancel culture and LGBTQ+ people
  • Ten times more durable … the innovative vessels.

    Design
    Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

    In the 1980s, a company called Superfest pioneered extra strong glass – but it disappeared with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now it’s making a comeback
    • The destroyed interior of the Spellow Hub community library after a night of violent disorder in Liverpool.

      News
      Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds

    • Vultures 2 artwork.

      Album review
      Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

    • Soon this might be the only staff member left … Employees aren’t happy at the vet’s practice (photo posed by models)

      A month in Ambridge
      Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: further proof that having sex with the boss is rarely a good idea

    • Laurie Anderson.

      The reader interview
      Post your questions for Laurie Anderson

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News

  • Happier times … Lynch at the Cannes film festival in 2002.

    Film
    David Lynch says he is not retiring after revealing he is too ill to direct films in person

    The Twin Peaks creator says he has emphysema caused by smoking and cannot leave the house because of the risk of Covid
  • A red chalk drawing a naked woman in three different poses

    Art and design
    ‘Unique opportunity’ to see Italian Renaissance drawings in London

  • Comedian Chris McCausland

    Television & radio
    Strictly Come Dancing confirms first two contestants including first blind dancer Chris McCausland

  • Art and design
    Reclusive artist to show ‘extraordinary’ work in UK for first time in decades

  • Television & radio
    Police investigate alleged death threat sent to Amanda Abbington

  • Film
    Tom Cruise to rappel off Stade de France in Olympics closing ceremony

  • Film
    Bafta introduces new prize for best children’s and family movie

  • Television & radio
    Amanda Abbington says she fears taking public transport after Strictly threats

  • Film
    Tom Cruise to appear in Olympics closing ceremony – report

Reviews

  • The Influencer.

    TV
    The Influencer – judging by these social media stars, humanity’s future is bleak

  • The human cost of prison … Daughters.

    Film
    Daughters – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

    Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s documentary about a ‘daddy-and-daughter’ prom for prisoners is an intimate window on lives torn apart by mass incarceration in the US
  • 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival<br>CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 7: Kate Atkinson, English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories, attends the 2023 Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 7, 2023 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Books
    Crime and thrillers of the month

    In a month full of big hitters, Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie makes a welcome return, Mick Herron’s reissued debut doesn’t disappoint – and Janice Hallett is as ingenious as ever
  • Radical.

    Film
    Radical – Mexico’s heartwarming answer to Dead Poets Society makes the grade

  • my student id 1992 in moscow

    Books
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford – falling foul of Putin

  • Charlotte Kirk as Scarlett in Duchess, standing outside a hotel pointing a gun.

    Film
    Duchess – sneers and smiles in noughties throwback Brit-crime revenger

  • Zog and the Flying Doctors, staged by Freckle Productions, at Cadogan Hall, London.

    Children's theatre
    Zog and the Flying Doctors – plucky princess and her crew take flight

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Regulars

  • ‘Every song has a destiny’ … Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry and Ross Valory of Journey.

    How we made
    ‘When The Sopranos used it, my phone blew up’: Journey on Don’t Stop Believin’

    ‘It’s a song that gives you permission to dream – and there are still a lot of smalltown girls and city boys wanting to get on a midnight train to anywhere’
  • Sue Perkins.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights

  • Minnie Riperton in California in 1977.

    Ranked
    Soul, psychedelia and sensuality: Minnie Riperton’s 20 best songs – ranked!

  • Malcolm McDowell
    Malcolm McDowell: ‘Kubrick had stewed pears and sour chicken for lunch because Napoleon did’

  • My best shot
    Teenage militia take a break from battle: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham’s best photograph

  • Film
    ‘We went bankrupt and had to set up the explosives ourselves’: Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine on making Richard III

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Evie Wyld’s cultural highlights

Staying in

  • Fred Sirieix in First Dates.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: watch amazing and terrible dates in action

  • Noa played by Owen Teague in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to Mission: Impossible – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The gripping prequel to the original movie plunges into political tribalism, while Tom Cruise’s 1996 blockbuster bristles with meticulously formulated action
  • Tymika Tafari as Gina and Zoe Lister-Jones as Mae in Slip.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Slip to The Influencer: the seven best shows to stream this week

    An oddball, humour-packed drama about experiencing parallel lives via the medium of orgasm, while a Korean TV show pits influencers against each other in a highly Black Mirror-esque way
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Pictures & video

  • Mermaid in Italy … Alison and Thee, St Lawrence River

    Art and design
    ‘I never know what I’ll find’: Under the influence of Italy – in pictures

    From extraordinary painters to empty chairs, Regina DeLuise’s evocative photobook The Hands of My Friends emphasises her connection to her motherland
  • Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica

    ‘With the war in Ukraine, these stories no longer exist’
    The final images from inside Chornobyl

  • The Last Stand by Fiona Francois Charcoal drawing

    Art and design
    From Tasmanian cliffs to pig-nosed turtles: $100,000 Hadley’s Art prize – in pictures

  • Photography
    Sound systems and struggle: community spirit in east London – in pictures

  • Fashion photography
    Totally bananas! Gian Paolo Barbieri’s wild fashion shoots – in pictures

  • Photography
    Keep on Kicken! 50 years photographing Berlin and beyond – in pictures

  • Photography
    ‘Our own dirtbag Narnia’: hanging out with the trash people – in pictures

  • Art and design
    Big in the country: rural life across Europe – in pictures

  • In pictures
    Road to ruins: Peter Mitchell’s crumbling Leeds

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You may have missed

  • Mark Watson Edinburgh Fringe

    Edinburgh festival 2024
    ‘It ends with me crying in a pink cycle helmet’: fringe comics pitch their own Baby Reindeer

    With every streaming service now searching for their version of the Netfix hit, Mark Watson, Lucy Porter, Celya AB and more pitch the TV show of their lives, from real-life origin stories and flights of fancy to, erm, Baby Reindeer
  • books

    Books
    ‘A rumpled paperback showed me I was not alone’: Charlotte Mendelson, Michael Rosen and others on the books that marked their coming of age

  • From top left: Brittany Howard; Channel Tres, Calvin Harris, the Cavemen, Frank Ocean, Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Chappell Roan, Joe Talbot of Idles.

    Music
    New summer classics playlist: 15 artists pick sunshine tracks

  • Deadpool inside a graphical egg design, on a red background

    Film
    Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

  • Edna O’Brien.

    ‘She did not suffer a fool or hypocrite and loved a good laugh’: novelist Edna O’Brien

  • ‘There’s the opportunity to join a cult – or even duel’ … Emily Carding in The Key of Dreams.

    Stage
    ‘A torch illuminates a human skull!’ My horror all-nighter in a haunted manor

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