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  • ‘God, I really need a pint after that’
    Actors on the toll of dying on stage night after night for months

    What’s it like to expire every evening, often in devastating, drawn-out scenes? Nathan Lane, Josette Simon and more talk about how playing death messes with their minds – and describe the ‘de-role’ rituals that bring them back

  • My best shot
    Iranian women asleep on a bus

    ‘As you can tell by their closed eyes, all the women around me that day were exhausted. In Iran, women have to be superheroes to overcome all the restrictions they face’

  • Slashed stone, daylight galore and doors by Tracey Emin
    The National Portrait Gallery’s £41m rebirth

  • Behind bars
    How rap lyrics are being used to convict Black British men

    Exclusive: Crown Prosecution Service claims no one is convicted solely via lyrics, but shocking new research finds juries being shown music and dance as evidence of guilt

    • Shunned, boycotted, exiled
      Has France treated Françoise Gilot worse than Picasso did?

    • Dear England
      Touching, funny retelling of Gareth Southgate’s quiet revolution

    • Secret Invasion
      The scenes between Olivia Colman and Samuel L Jackson are just glorious

    • Simple, stupid, joyful
      The comedy that really works in video games

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Staying in

  • What's on tonight
    TV tonight: Bridget Christie’s fantastic comedy about the menopause

  • The seven best shows to stream this week
    I’m a Virgo to Secret Invasion: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Jharrel Jerome is a 13ft-tall teenager in Boots Riley’s gloriously eccentric new show, and Samuel L Jackson is back in the MCU! Plus: watch Glastonbury from your sofa

  • The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Don’t Worry Darling to Rafiki: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star in a twisty 50s mystery with serious Stepford Wives vibes, and the defiant lesbian romance that is set in – and banned in – Kenya

News

  • Books
    Utah district returns Bible to school libraries after reversal of parent-led ban

    Davis school district, north of Salt Lake City, voted unanimously to accept recommendation by subcommittee to reinstate book

  • Music
    Pharrell Williams hits Paris catwalk with Louis Vuitton menswear debut

  • Books
    Carnegie medal for children’s books goes to a translation for the first time

    • Media
      New electric cars won’t have AM radio. Rightwingers claim political sabotage

    • Festivals
      Showers forecast for UK as crowds arrive at Glastonbury

    • Culture
      Translator alleges work on Chinese radical ‘plagiarised’ in British Museum show

    • Film
      Search for missing actor Julian Sands scaled back

    • Music
      ‘Larger than life’: Tina Turner outfits to star in V&A’s Diva exhibition

    • Film
      Apple TV+ remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled due to US writers’ strike

Reviews

  • Games
    Final Fantasy XVI – sophisticated spectacle is a breath of fresh air

  • Art
    Carrie Mae Weems – evil clowns, race riots and tense kitchen table dramas

    In this intriguing show, the photographer, film-maker and dancer explores the Black American experience from a wide range of angles

  • Film
    No Hard Feelings – Jennifer Lawrence comedy plays sex work for laughs

    This age-gap story – Lawrence has to seduce a teenage virgin boy to get a free car – refuses to make bought sex anything resembling an issue

  • Music
    Les Siècles – Raw, radical and revelatory as Roth’s period band thrill

  • Stage
    Roman Holiday – movie magic gets lost in translation

  • Music
    Rancid – pure punk rock creates arena-scale moshpit

  • Film
    The Wicker Man – one-of-a-kind horror returns for midsummer night’s screaming

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Pictures & video

  • The new nude
    Collapsing bodies

     
    These diverse studio nudes by Dominican-American artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez explore identity, spirituality and the free-falling nature of life itself

  • Here comes the sun
    Beach bodies in 1970s Los Angeles

     

  • Friendship, freedom and fragility
    The photographer who returns to her teenage years

    • Mystery man
      The many guises of Juan Pablo Echeverri

       

    • Glenda Jackson: A life in pictures
      From the RSC to the Commons

       

    • Chimp cuddles and clever coyotes
      The 10th BigPicture Natural World photography competition

       

    • Light up!
      The best of Photo Basel 2023

       

    • Smile for the camera!
      Magical images of childhood

       

    • Coral slime, burning trees – and hope
      Earth Photo 2023 shortlist

       
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You may have missed

  • Glenda Jackson obituary

    Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP

  • Bryan Cranston
    ‘My dad wanted to be a star. It’s a sign of immaturity’

  • ‘Like a falling apart’
    Ben Howard on returning to music after two strokes

  • ‘We had both grown up but didn’t know each other’
    A mother and son’s dance reunion

  • Boyd Holbrook
    ‘You know what I’m striving for? The perfect performance’

  • Alison Spittle
    ‘Think of the most shameful thing you have done, then imagine your mum watching!’

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