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  • Building Relationships.

    Summer games previews
    ‘The windmill is pretty flirty’: Building Relationships, the game where you take a house out on a date

    In this uniquely absurd mishmash of adventure and dating game, you are a house looking for love on an island of eligible bachelor pads
  • Shaad D'Souza

    Music
    The music industry is engineering artist popularity – listeners are right to be angry

    Shaad D'Souza
    • Tightly choreographed … Sampa the Great on stage at Womad.

      Music
      Womad festival review – wildly entertaining treasure trove for adventurous music fans

    • A lab, a haven … Afolabi Alli, Matthew Romain and Harry Treadaway rehearsing for The Grapes of Wrath.

      Stage
      ‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

    • Amy Sherald’s For love, and for country, 2022.

      Art
      Hello sailors: what these two kissing seamen can tell us about Kamala Harris’s White House bid

    • LL Cool J.

      The reader interview
      Post your questions for LL Cool J

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News

  • Sinéad O’Connor

    Music
    Sinéad O’Connor died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, death certificate says

    Irish singer’s cause of death confirmed one year after being found unresponsive at her London home at age 56
  • The writer Edna O’Brien

    Books
    Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

  • Jeremy O Harris, Olivia Washington and Kit Harington

    Stage
    Games of Thrones actor defends ‘black out’ theatre nights

  • Music
    Céline Dion ‘so full of joy’ after return in Paris Olympics opening ceremony

  • Books
    Melania Trump to tell her story in memoir scheduled for this fall

  • Art and design
    Joy Gregory unveils billboard art project at Heathrow inspired by asylum seekers

  • Film
    Inside Out 2 becomes highest-grossing animation of all time

  • Film
    ‘It’s been a fun ride’: former Bond George Lazenby announces retirement at 84

  • Film
    Jennifer Aniston criticises JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment

Reviews

  • Robert Plant Cambridge Folk Festival 2024

    Festivals
    Cambridge folk festival review – Robert Plant thrills, Peggy Seeger inspires and Oysterband rock

  • Three film still

    Film
    Three review – Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war

    Aleksandar Petrović’s 1965 interlinked stories focus on the changes wrought in one young Yugoslavian by the brutality of the war and its aftermath
  • A Place Called Silence (Part 1) 8徐娇 JOSIE XU

    Film
    A Place Called Silence review – secrets and lies in high school dripping with horror

    Sam Quah brings real artistry to story of buried guilt and conspicuous violence, but his neat contrivances tie things up rather too easily
  • a Phoenician terracotta mask.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Phoenician by Angela Leighton

  • Gboyega Odubanjo - poet

    Books
    Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing

  • Ernesto looks out from a window in the film Light Falls vertical

    Film
    Light Falls Vertical review – startling domestic violence memoir goes deep into past trauma

  • Outside Noise.

    Film
    Outside Noise review – dreamy twentysomethings wander around Europe in charming study

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Regulars

  • Evie Wyld, author

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

    The author on a musical tribute to Andy Warhol, the book that made her swear out loud, and an exciting new restaurant in Peckham
  • Interpol, press photo 2022

    Interpol
    Interpol: ‘I’m very glad we said yes to putting a song in Friends – it was a pretty hardcore moment’

  • 1985, COMMANDO<br>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Character(s): John Matrix Film 'COMMANDO' (1985) Directed By MARK L. LESTER 04 October 1985 SSZ101431 Allstar/20THCENTURY FOX **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20THCENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20THCENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Film
    Brawn, bazookas and killer bots: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finest films – ranked!

  • How we made
    ‘I thought the chorus was wicked’: Aswad on how they made Don’t Turn Around

  • Honest playlist
    James Martin’s honest playlist: ‘I learned to play guitar so I could perform Don’t Stop Believin’ every night’

  • Culture
    On my radar: comedian Sophie Duker’s cultural highlights

  • Film
    Rob Delaney: ‘The average British citizen is funnier than the average American’

Staying in

  • The Eiffel Tower with fountains in front of it.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: the epic tale of the Eiffel Tower gets a topical outing at the start of the Paris Olympics

  • Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman in Wicked Little Letters.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Wicked Little Letters to The Shining: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley indulge in some sensational swearing in a hugely enjoyable comedy, while Stanley Kubrick’s iconoclastic horror still packs a punch
  • Women in Blue

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Women in Blue to Celebrity Send Off: the seven best shows to stream this week

    The warm, likable tale of Mexican women joining the police to catch a serial killer, plus Shaun Ryder asks Bez to plan his funeral – with predictably eccentric results
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Pictures & video

  • Lee Friedlander – Topless Bridesmaid, 1967

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

    From cold war subcultures to topless bridesmaids, a new exhibition at Kicken Berlin features half a century of groundbreaking images
  • The Group for Mutual Improvement 6

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

  • Farming Family, Poland © Colin Robins and Oliver Udy

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

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

  • Photography
    ‘Some of the most shocking photographs ever taken’ – The Camera Never Lies review

  • My best shot
    A wild moment with date paste

  • Photography
    Feeling sheepish: Sergio Purtell’s American dream – in pictures

  • Photography
    ‘You never know what you’ll bump into’: a wander around Britain – in pictures

  • Photography
    Joy, trauma and identity: themes from Kuala Lumpur’s photography awards

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You may have missed

  • The spire of Notre Dame collapsing as the fire engulfed it on 15 April 2019.

    Paris
    ‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame

    For the past five years, Agnès Poirier has had unique access to the army of artisans tasked with rebuilding the 12th-century ‘soul of France’
  • Composite of screen shots from summer films

    Film
    From steamy summertime romances to spring-break chaos: the 20 best films about holidays

  • China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.

    Books
    ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix

  • B-boy poses in front of the Eiffel Tower

    Music
    ‘Improvisation is key’: DJs ready for supporting role in breakdancing’s Olympics debut

  • Portrait of Alan Sparhawk, who wears a dark denim shirt.

    Music
    Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

  • Parklife festival in June 2024.

    Festivals
    ‘I puked virtually every morning’: inside the stressful life of a festival organiser

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