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  • Ben Whishaw and Keira Knightley in Black Doves.

    Television & radio
    ‘We’ll ruin Christmas’: Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw on their gun-packed festive spy thriller

    Blood, bullets, bad Santas – Black Doves will guarantee you a raucous holiday season. The stars talk rage, raising kids and what their show has in common with East 17
  • Nightbitch director Marielle Heller and star Amy Adams at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

    Film
    ‘That’s my own hair. I can really grow whiskers’: Amy Adams and Marielle Heller on toddlers, incontinence and Nightbitch

    The film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel offers a whip-smart depiction of motherhood – and some icky body horror. Its director and star talk awful husbands, menstrual blood and canine transformation
  • Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Civil War.

    Film
    ‘More brains than brawn’: will the new Captain America be hamstrung by his lack of superpowers?

    Marvel has decided to take Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson right back to the superhero stone age with its latest iteration, in which he will basically have no power at all
  • soprano Claire Booth

    Classical music
    ‘How do you sound like a sickly moon or a gigantic black butterfly?’: Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and its ‘sing-speech’

    The song cycle’s exploration of madness, death, sex and trauma redefined music – and singing. But how do you hiss, whisper and sing at the same time?
    • Billy Preston as he poses against a red backgound, London, England, January 28, 1972. (Photo by TPLP/Getty Images)

      Music
      ‘I just had to rejoice’: the brilliance and tragedy of ‘fifth Beatle’ Billy Preston

    • DJ Próvaí from Kneecap arrives at Belfast high court where the Irish language rap-trio has won its legal challenge.

      Music
      Kneecap: UK government acted illegally in withholding funding from Irish rap trio

    • A Highland Landscape by John Knox at Romance to Realities at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.

      The week in art
      A Renaissance pooch, pop art hammers and sublime northern landscapes

    • Buckle up … who will be the Texas Renaissance festival heir in Ren Faire?

      Television & radio
      TV tonight: ‘Succession meets Game of Thrones’ in an absurd new series

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  • Jon Ransom.

    Books
    Jon Ransom wins second Polari prize in two years with The Gallopers

    The author has been named winner of the LGBTQ book prize for his second novel, having won the Polari first book award in 2023. This year’s debut award goes to Nicola Dinan, with Sarah Hagger-Holt taking the children’s prize
  • The original Band Aid lineup in 1984.

    Music
    Band Aid 40 fails to reach UK Top 40 in opening week

  • Cynthia Erivo at the LA premiere of Wicked on 9 November.

    Film
    ‘It’s wonderful’: Wicked star Cynthia Erivo says she’s fine with audiences singing along

  • Television & radio
    Gregg Wallace accused of ‘highly inappropriate’ behaviour while filming

  • Books
    ‘Significant’ drop in racially minoritised characters in children’s books, report says

  • Music
    Cher reveals Lucille Ball’s advice pushed her to leave Sonny Bono

  • Film
    ‘A very poor idea’: Julia Roberts rejected Richard Curtis’s proposed Notting Hill divorce sequel

  • Music
    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs denied bail for a third time over ‘serious risk’ of witness tampering

  • Books
    Novels about serial killers and loyal dogs voted Waterstones books of 2024

Reviews

  • Ren Faire.

    TV
    Ren Faire – the hilarious, heartbreaking tale of a furious power struggle … fuelled by jousting

  • Expendable at Royal Court Theatre - Lena Kaur, Humera Syed

    Stage
    Expendable – stories of women caught up in grooming scandal told too briefly

    As reprisals against Pakistani men suspected of abuse rage outside, one family is trapped at home where we are sped through the many issues this raises
  • Kendrick Lamar in a black and white photo, crouching in front of a car

    Music
    Kendrick Lamar: GNX – amply backed-up grandstanding

    Fresh from his feud with Drake, the US hip-hop star’s latest album finds him on imperious form
  • Dickie (Phil Dunning) in Smoggie Queens

    Television
    Smoggie Queens – an adorably sweet drag sitcom

  • Fanie Naude

    Books
    The best translated fiction – review roundup

  • Uneasy listening … Ilan Volkov conducts the LSO performing Helmut Lachenmann’s My Melodies at the Barbican, London.

    Classical music
    LSO/Volkov – Lachenmann’s My Melodies offers eerie mutterings, brutal force and unpitched sounds

  • A scene in the round sees actors singing and dancing on stage under luxurious lighting

    Stage
    Spend Spend Spend – punchy revival of a rags to riches to rags tale

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Regulars

  • Joan Armatrading

    Joan Armatrading
    Joan Armatrading: ‘I love the Beano – in fact, I was in it, having a slap-up meal’

    The singer-songwriter answers your questions on the bank robber that inspired her, playing with Bob Dylan and Clarke Peters, and her love of classic comics
  • Washington in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

    Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington at 70: his 20 greatest films – ranked!

  • ‘I was absolutely petrified of the man’ … Samuel Beckett in 1973.

    My best shot
    Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘Charles had just bought a mean-looking Chevrolet’: how War made Low Rider

  • Edith Bowman
    ‘I do both the Beyoncé and the Jay-Z parts of Crazy In Love’: Edith Bowman’s honest playlist

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Mathew Baynton’s cultural highlights

  • Film
    Daisy Ridley: ‘I made a toilet cake on Bake Off because flushing with the lid up is unhygienic beyond belief’

Staying in

  • Buckle up … who will be the Texas Renaissance festival heir in Ren Faire?

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: ‘Succession meets Game of Thrones’ in an absurd new series

  • That Christmas

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    That Christmas to Beatles ’64: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Richard Curtis gets the festive season off to a cracking start with a bubbly animation, plus Martin Scorsese’s fly-on-the-wall epic about the Fab Four on tour
  • Ben Whishaw and Keira Knightley in Black Doves.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Black Doves to The Agency: the seven best shows to stream this week

    It’s spy week! Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw lead Joe Barton’s slick, nasty festive thriller, while Michael Fassbender stars in a very serious cold war show
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Pictures & video

  • Photo left shows people climbing over the wreckage of cars on a street amid debris. Photo right shows people walking along the same street after it has been cleaned.

    Photography then and now
    Floods in Valencia, Spain

    As Spain marks one month since floods in Valencia killed 230 people, photographs taken four weeks apart show the results of work by thousands of people to clear debris and repair damage in the traumatised region
  • ‘Relentlessly toiling’ … Chicago and North Western Railroad roadhouse, Iowa, 1943

    Vintage photography
    Feeling blue: how denim built America – in pictures

  • Pillar To Post<br>Travelling 0049 "Connor" – Connor wears a designer tracksuit while riding his horse, blending tradition and modernity. The horse symbolizes heritage and rural life, while the Armani tracksuit and Nike Shox represent contemporary style and urban culture.

    Community
    Horse trading with Travellers and Romani Gypsies – in pictures

  • International Space Station
    ‘Portal to space’: the place where astronauts take off and land – in pictures

  • Photography
    Pride and protest: a photographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights

  • The Guardian picture essay
    A life of hard work on the hills of a Welsh valley

  • Photography
    Going for gold: the best of Africa Foto Fair – in pictures

  • Robert Frank
    ‘It changed 20th-century art’: revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans – in pictures

  • My best shot
    A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph

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You may have missed

  • Clockwise from top left: Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge!, John Turturro, George Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson in O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Danny Sapani as Jason and Helen McCrory as Medea: poet CP Cavafy; Joseph Fiennes as Troilus at the National Theatre.

    Books
    ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

    Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit
  • John Lithgow, Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in Conclave

    Film
    ‘We create gods because the world is chaos’: Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci on celebrity, sin and papal thriller Conclave

  • Phil Dunning as Dickie in Smoggie Queens.

    Television & radio
    ‘Stunning, but so wrong’: inside raucous new drag sitcom Smoggie Queens

  • Stephen Graham shot for OM

    Film
    ‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes

  • Acrobats practice outside in a desert in front of a circular metal structure.

    Stage
    The circus that bought a tiny California town: ‘We’re creating our own Disneyland’

  • Haruki Murakami.

    Books
    Haruki Murakami: ‘My books have been criticised so much over the years, I don’t pay much attention’

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