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  • Niall Williams

    The books of my life
    Niall Williams: ‘When I first read Chekhov, I thought: “He’s not so great”’

    The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien
  • Neko Case in 2018.

    Pop and rock
    ‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death

    The Grammy-nominated indie icon has written her memoir, and confronted a shocking deception by her family. But now, she says, it’s the music industry that really angers her
    • still from Vietnam: The War That Changed America shows US troops arriving in Vietnam.

      TV
      Vietnam: The War That Changed America review – a stunningly powerful tale of regret

    • Bill Gates in 1984

      Book of the day
      Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review – refreshingly frank

    • A woman's hands, with many bangles on both wrists, operating a sound mixing desk, as seen from above.

      Radio
      From missing goats to health tips: how a female-run radio station is giving rural India a voice

    • Peter Hujar: Ethyl Eichelberger, 1979

      Art and design
      Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – life, death and a gnarly dildo

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News

  • Elizabeth Debicki in Paris this January.

    Stage
    Elizabeth Debicki will return to the stage in London this summer

    The Crown actor and Kate Fleetwood will join Ewan McGregor in Lila Raicek’s My Master Builder, inspired by Ibsen
  • Damian Barr and Val McDermid holding books in front of a staircase with a graphic displayed across the steps saying: 'Celebrating 100 years'

    Books
    Val McDermid and Damian Barr urge Scottish councils to halt library closures

  • Smith performing in 2014.

    Music
    Patti Smith collapses on stage in Brazil after suffering days-long migraine

  • Film
    Joan Collins to play Wallis Simpson in new biopic

  • Theatre
    Broadway hit Shucked kicks off Drew McOnie’s debut season at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre

  • Culture
    BBC apologises to staff who ‘felt unable to raise’ Russell Brand concerns

  • Heritage
    English Heritage plans up to 200 redundancies and winter closures of some sites

  • Film
    Meryl Streep cut a car-sized hole in her garden fence to escape LA fires

  • Musicals
    Stage adaptation of Coraline cancelled after allegations against Neil Gaiman

2025 culture preview

  • Clairo and Tyler, the Creator – two of the artists touring the UK this year.

    Music
    Billie Eilish, Sex Pistols and Beethoven’s skull: music to listen out for in 2025

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

    Games
    Games to look forward to in 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • stage

    Stage
    Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

  • music

    Film
    Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025

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Reviews

  • Worlds he constructs are consistently inviting … Mike.

    Music
    Mike: Showbiz! review – a master rap craftsman building his own world

  • Singing as the oats baked around them … Cynefin.

    Folk album of the month
    Cynefin: Shimli review – this Welsh folk music is a quietly political antidote to the modern age

    Singer Owen Shiers combines traditional ballads, musical settings of poems, and originals built on stories collected from rural west Walians, all sung in Welsh
  • Angry and articulate … Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pansy in Hard Truths

    Film
    Hard Truths review – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage

    Marianne Jean-Baptiste is exceptional as a woman in the terrifying endgame of depression in this deeply sober and compassionate drama, not without flashes of fun
  • Impassioned … Mared Jarman in Byth Bythoedd Amen at the Sherman theatre.

    Theatre
    Byth Bythoedd Amen review – searing drama with the edge of standup comedy

  • An Update on Our Family.

    Television & radio
    An Update on Our Family review – these influencers’ murky tale makes you long to end the internet

  • Comic book artist Guillaume Singelin once again provides visuals … Citizen Sleeper 2.

    Games
    Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – we’re putting together a crew

  • a woman in a grey jumper

    Sundance 2025
    Opus review – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud

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Regulars

  • Troubled times … Cary, Axiuli and Haytoo in their home in a former laundry.

    My best shot
    Cary with her goose Axiuli and her cat Haytoo: James Clifford Kent’s best photograph

    ‘When I asked Cary why her white cat Haytoo was covered in dark patches, she said, “Oh, he likes to sleep on the stove and sometimes his fur catches fire”’
  • ‘It’s relentless’ … from left, Mike Kellie, Alan Mair, John Perry and Peter Perrett.

    How we made
    ‘It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet

  • Rufus Wainwright

    Honest playlist
    ‘I’d dress as Judy Garland and scare my parents’: Rufus Wainwright’s honest playlist

  • Goldfrapp
    On my radar: Alison Goldfrapp’s cultural highlights

  • Film
    ‘Her face is a marvel!’: Vanessa Redgrave’s 20 best films – ranked!

Staying in

  • Danny Robins in Uncanny.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: ghost-busting on a haunted farm in Bury with Danny Robins

  • Richard Farnsworth in The Straight Story.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Straight Story to You’re Cordially Invited: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    David Lynch’s classic about a man who rides his lawnmower across America. Plus: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell’s slapstick comedy about weddings … and alligator wrestling is a nostalgic treat
  • Kaitlyn Dever as Belle in Apple Cider Vinegar.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Apple Cider Vinegar to Clean Slate: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Kaitlyn Dever stars in a wild, glossy drama about the rise and fall of a ‘wellness guru’, and Laverne Cox stars in a warm new comedy about a woman returning home to Alabama
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Pictures & video

  • The face of a man holding a flower to his lips

    The Guardian picture essay
    AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025

    A review of this year’s Photo Brussels festival, where the theme of artificial intelligence and its impact and potential were examined by the curated work
  • People looking at reproductions of Banksy's work.

    Art and design
    New Banksy museum opens in Madrid

  • ‘I took photos purely for the colours’ … Quiet Sleep motel, California, 1983

    Wim Wenders
    Light fantastic: the road trip that inspired Paris, Texas – in pictures

  • Architecture
    Radical statement or eyesore? Japan’s divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures

  • Conflict
    ‘Devastated by war’: Ukraine’s battle scars – in pictures

  • Photos of the day
    Lunar new year preparations and a rage room: photos of the weekend

  • Photography
    Let it glow: fireflies illuminating Japanese woodlands – in pictures

  • Road trip
    This is not ‘flyover country’: A journey down America’s spine – in pictures

  • Photography
    Dream states: the Lynchian imagery of Henry Roy – in pictures

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    Music
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  • Blocky fun … 450 Warren.

    Architecture
    ‘The banks thought we were mad’: coral castles and look-at-me loos reinvent New York housing

  • Morgan Lloyd and Kate Bond of You Me Bum Bum Train.

    Stage
    You Me Bum Bum Train: ‘There have been weddings, children and lifelong friendships made through this show’

  • ‘This is how revolutions start’ … Rod Wooden in Newcastle.

    Stage
    The play that changed my life: ‘Your Home in the West was an explosive act of anger’

  • Andy Marshall AKA Andy the Furniture Maker in 1985.

    Culture
    ‘He was unforgettable’: the mesmerising star of cult documentary Andy the Furniture Maker

  • ‘In opera you get 80 different perspectives’ ... a rehearsal for Festen at the Royal Opera House.

    Opera
    ‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film

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