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  • 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

    What happens when a Hollywood actor and SF author join forces on a novel? The pair talk about their literary bromance – and their quest to turn Reeves’s comic book series into something deeper
  • A movie still of three young, good-looking people - one woman and two men, one Latino and two white - looking in concern out a door.

    Film
    ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?

    Twisters is the latest in a long line of movies that fail to address the environmental emergency – experts say it’s a missed opportunity
  • Toddlers playing on the beach at sunset

    Books
    Sand with everything: writer Catherine Newman on family summers at the beach

    Growing appetites and changing tastes … how summers at the beach capture the flavour of family life
  • Parklife festival in June 2024.

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

    You’re battling rising costs to source enough essentials for a small city and always competing for the best acts. So why would anyone run a festival? We speak to those behind Green Man, Parklife and Krankenhaus to find out
    • Graziano Di Prima picks up Zara McDermott on the dancefloor

      Strictly Come Dancing
      How professionals chasing social media fame may undo Strictly Come Dancing

    • Bruce Dickinson with his hair pulled back and wearing a black leather jacket, against a mid-blue background

      The Q&A
      Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’

    • B-boy poses in front of the Eiffel Tower

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

    • Joe Swash and Seann Walsh in Battle in the Box.

      The watcher
      Battle in the Box: kids’ birthday parties have better games than Jimmy Carr’s tedious new show

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News

  • Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band<br>HELSINKI, FINLAND - JULY 12: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band perform live at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on July 12, 2024 in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo by Venla Shalin/Redferns)

    Music
    Bruce Springsteen is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes

    The Boss, who sold his musical catalogue to Sony in 2021 for a reported $500m, has an estimated net worth of $1.1bn
  • A rough portrait, in dark and earthy tones, painted straight on to wood, of a dark-haired saturnine young man

    Art
    ‘It was magical’: hidden self-portrait by English artist Norman Cornish found at museum

  • A rendition of the revamped HSBC tower

    Architecture
    Canary Wharf Group to carve chunks out of HSBC tower after bank leaves

  • TV
    Strictly Come Dancing has ‘dark heart’, says ex-contestant Rev Richard Coles

  • Rust film set shooting
    Armorer seeks to undo conviction after judge dismissed Alec Baldwin case

  • Film
    Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s Sam Altman would make a good Marvel villain after voice dispute

  • Heritage
    Brinsley Headstocks mining landmark to be reconstructed after public outcry

  • Music
    Adele announces ‘big break’ from music

  • Heritage
    Dover Castle ‘rises from ashes of the 1216 siege’ in digital exhibition

Reviews

  • Halle Butler From Orion Books

    Book of the day
    Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler – witty millennial angst

  • Elim Chan conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra baton-free.

    Music
    First Night of the Proms – a thrilling adventure ride

    A seemingly safe ticket – Handel, Bruckner, Clara Schumann and Beethoven’s Fifth – became in the hands of Elim Chan and the BBCSO a dazzling, joyous launch night
  • Olisa Odele, Kadiff Kirwan and Kaireece Denton in The Hot Wing King.

    Stage
    The Hot Wing King – Katori Hall’s comedy sizzles with joy

    This Pulitzer-winning play delicately explores issues of race, sexuality and masculinity with humour as the main ingredient
  • Jan Lisiecki performing at London's Wigmore Hall.

    Classical music
    Jan Lisiecki – titanic moments in one man’s fight to free the prelude

  • Mat Fraser and Liz Carr, both dressed in white and black, hold a discussion

    Stage
    Unspeakable Conversations – Liz Carr and Mat Fraser’s straight talk is enthralling

  • Efficient and characterful … Rose Wollman and Dror Baitel.

    Classical music
    Breaking Glass Ceilings: Music by Unruly Women album – a celebration of defiant female composers

  • George the Poet

    Audiobook of the week
    Track Record by George the Poet – a heartfelt blend of the personal and political

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Breaks For Good

  • Illustration of cocoa farmers harvesting crop

    From pruning to reforesting
    How good agricultural practices can lift cocoa communities

  • Image from Ivory Coast Trip 2022 - Nestlé Cocoa Plan: Income Accelerator Program

    Cocoa farming
    Uncovering the biggest challenges – and what’s being done to tackle them

  • Illustration of people enjoying the outdoors: walking, gardening, reflecting

    From birdwatching to forest bathing
    Eight relaxing ways to have a break with the environment in mind

  • Portrait of young urban woman drinking coffee while walking alongside her bicycle.

    Having a quick break?
    Seven ways to make it more sustainable

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Regulars

  • Rob Delaney promoting Deadpool & Wolverine.

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

    The American comedian returns to the big screen next week in Deadpool & Wolverine. He answers your questions on comic-book heroes, the end of Catastrophe, being attractive, Richard Linklater and full English breakfasts
  • Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child in Melbourne, 2005

    R&B
    So good, so good, so good: Destiny’s Child’s greatest songs – ranked!

  • ‘Some people tried it and made polite noises’ … an image from Bittersweet: A Story of Food and Yemen.

    My best shot
    A wild moment with date paste – Sayed Asif Mahmud’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘We were smoking a lot of weed’: how we made People Just Do Nothing

  • Cressida Cowell
    On my radar: Cressida Cowell’s cultural highlights

  • Music
    Stewart Copeland: ‘The Police’s recording sessions were very dark. We beat the crap out of each other’

  • Shelley Duvall
    Shelley Duvall: her 20 greatest films

Staying in

  • Killer smile… Elizabeth Olsen in Love &amp; Death

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: Elizabeth Olsen and Jessie Plemons’s outstanding murder drama

  • Falling for an avatar … Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer in Free Guy.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Free Guy to Young Woman and the Sea: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Ryan Reynolds’s charm carries a super-fun video-game comedy, and Daisy Ridley is steely and inspirational as Trudy Ederle – the first woman to swim the Channel
  • Time Bandits.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Time Bandits to The Decameron: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Taika Waititi reimagines Terry Gilliam’s cult classic, plus a starry comedy set in 14th-century Italy about debauchery and the Black Death
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Pictures & video

  • Chips with everything … Mrs Clayton and Mrs Collins, Summer, 1974.

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

    Demolished flats, boarded-up cinemas, disused buildings … Mitchell’s photographs of Yorkshire (and beyond) have established him as a key chronicler of a changing Britain
  • Landscape with tanks … Time Taken 2, High Summer, 2013-2014, by Simon Norfolk.

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

  • ‘Some people tried it and made polite noises’ … an image from Bittersweet: A Story of Food and Yemen.

    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

  • Photos of the day
    Desert blooms, Romanian blouses and Mr Afghanistan

  • Art and design
    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives

  • Photography
    Latin American Foto festival

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You may have missed

  • Kyle Gass performing with Tenacious D.

    Feature
    Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

    Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?
  • ‘Characters are like paint brushed on my canvas’ … Baker filming Janet Planet.

    Interview
    Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut

  • Jimmy Jewel, Dave Hill and Jonathan Pryce in Comedians at the National Theatre in 1975.

    Theatre
    The play that changed my life: ‘Comedians got me the job running the National Theatre’

  • man wearing black shirt and open blue short-sleeve button-down surrounded by paintings

    ‘All art is worthy of preserving’
    What should artists do to protect what they leave behind?

  • Skeleton staff … Fern, the new bronze replica of Dippy, oversees the garden.

    Architecture
    ‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

  • ‘The flag and the fist together are what make this so powerful’ … Trump’s first in parallel with the American flag.

    Photography
    ‘Is this what a second Trump presidency will be like?’ – our art critic on the chilling shooting image

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