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Arts

  • closeup of a man

    Film
    Joaquin Phoenix exits Todd Haynes gay drama five days before filming begins

  • Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Film
    Is this really the end of the line for Deadpool? Disney will never turn off the money tap

    Ben Child
    Poised to take a billion dollars at the box office, the sweary and ultraviolent Deadpool & Wolverine proves where there’s muck there’s brass – so there can’t not be a sequel
  • VIP Guests At Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 13<br>PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 08: Travis Scott attends the men's basketball semi-final match between Team United States and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Karwai Tang/Getty Images)

    Music
    Travis Scott arrested in Paris over altercation with security guard

    The rapper was arrested for an incident involving a hotel security guard while he is in the city for the Olympics
  • Chappell Roan at Lollapalooza in Chicago last weekend

    Music
    It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom

  • Anthony Ammirati in the men’s pole vault.

    Television
    From gatecrashing whales to vaulter beaten by own pole: the top TV moments of the Olympics

  • 94869<br>Sugarcane still: a statue of Mary and Baby Jesus looks over St. Joseph's Mission, a former Indian residential school near Williams Lake, British Columbia, where a search for unmarked graves of former students is underway

    Film
    ‘Designed to tear families apart’: a shocking film exposes abuse and infanticide

  • Malcolm McDowell in Caligula, 1979.

    Film
    ‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas

Talking points

  • Footballer Steve Heighway plays Pong in 1977.

    Games
    How to recreate the best Paris Olympics moments with retro video games

  • Rich Pelley playing Elden Ring, video game, for piece about controlling video games with your mind

    Games
    ‘Use the Force, Rich!’ Can you really play video games with your mind?

  • Dhurata Dora performs during the Sunny Hill Festival, Kosovo, July 2024

    Music
    The other K-pop: Dua Lipa, Rita Ora and the Kosovan chart takeover

  • Not from concentrate … Mtume performing in London, 1985.

    Music
    Still fresh: why Mtume’s Juicy Fruit underpins generations of rap classics

People

  • Ben Gibbard (second left) with Death Cab for Cutie.

    Music
    The Postal Service’s Ben Gibbard: ‘You write things when you were 21 that you wouldn’t write today’

  • Jamaica Kincaid

    Books
    Jamaica Kincaid: ‘Don’t get me started on the New Testament, that celebrity magazine’

    • Matt Johnson of the The in London last month.

      Music
      ‘Fame is like inhaling a toxic substance’: the The’s Matt Johnson on pop, politics and his death-defying return

    • A man who is Colin Farrell at a movie premiere

      Film
      Colin Farrell opens up about son with Angelman syndrome: ‘We still struggle’

    • Gillian Welch performs during the 2024 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island

      Music
      Americana icon Gillian Welch: ‘Bob Dylan walking on to our version of Billy put a smile on my face’

The big picture

  • ‘Malik’s only regular exercise is his daily morning pushup routine, which he does with his feet perched on the bed’ … a shot from Say Less

    Struck by a bullet: life as a New York gang casualty – in pictures

    Practising doctor Greg Gulbransen was drawn to photographing Malik – a member of the Crips who was shot and paralysed – and the gang members who provide his care

Reviews

  • Sharp, funny writing with the occasional shock … The Crush House.

    Games
    The Crush House – Love Island with a dark heart

  • Ravyn Lenae.

    Music
    Ravyn Lenae: Bird’s Eye – a breathtaking R&B follow-up

    • Hilary Mantel.

      Books
      A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel audiobook – preoccupations of a vibrant mind

    • Group shot of band taken from above

      Music
      Charly Bliss: Forever – alt-rockers put pop first

    • jpegmafia in a black t-shirt and a white stetson, a crowd of fans beneath him

      Music
      Jpegmafia: I Lay Down My Life For You – scattergun brilliance

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Pictures & video

  • Sunbathers in La Palma

    Association of Photographers Awards
    See the documentary finalists

    The finalists have been announced in the documentary category of the AOP Photography Awards, celebrating excellence in the creative photography and image-making industry. Winners will be announced at the AOP Annual Showcase event in London on 26 September where, alongside selected finalists, the winning entries will also be exhibited
  • ‘Malik’s only regular exercise is his daily morning pushup routine, which he does with his feet perched on the bed’ … a shot from Say Less

    Struck by a bullet
    Life as a New York gang casualty

  • Model Yvonne Rankin paces the runway

    Modern clothes, ancient stories
    From Country to Couture 2024

  • Dreams and deities
    Black bodies reimagined

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

  • 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

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