arts
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The visionary sci-fi series first aired in September 1966 – and its utopian, confident blueprint for society still resonates in the age of Trump
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The decade’s cultural shift was fuelled by the innovative, colourful work of illustrators and poster artists, showcased in a forthcoming exhibition at the V&A
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After a six-year absence, the actress returns to our screens this month as cinema’s highest profile singleton. But don’t mistake the much-analysed star for the character she plays
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The country megastar on her first song, her vast vault of unheard material and the lifetime’s experience of love in her new album
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The carnage in Turkey and Syria has led to a blossoming of poetry – with women at the forefront. Here, two of them tell their stories
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The Will and Grace star on writing songs about genitals and baring all in a new stage show about the blissful – and highly sexed – state of her union with Parks & Recreation actor Nick Offerman
autumn film festivals
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Speaking at a screening of Bright Lights, about her relationship with mother Debbie Reynolds, the actor and writer reveals she is taking classes to cope with the ageing process
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The Breaking Bad star gives a showy performance as a businessman who leaves his job to hole himself away and spy on wife Jennifer Garner in this grating and bizarre adaptation of EL Doctorow’s short story
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This brutal, illuminating change of direction from the Austrian dramatist of the grotesque is a semi-staged documentary provoking legitimate revulsion
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The first two episodes of the Italian director’s lavish series have premiered in Venice: a heady taster boasting extraordinary visuals, fascinating Vatican machinations – and Diane Keaton in a wimple
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people
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Icelandic singer brings her 360-degree VR show to London’s Somerset House, putting the universe of Vulnicura on display
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The author reveals at a Guardian Live event that his new novel, narrated by an unborn foetus, critiques current obsessions on university campuses
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the big picture
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A look back at the front covers of the controversial countercultural magazine Oz, co-founded and edited by the late Richard Neville
reviews
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Fede Alvarez’s simple housebound horror film is sparse on dialogue but its editing and sound design lend to a slow roll of dread that makes it a triumph
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The country legend’s latest isn’t quite the kind of back-to-basics project that gave Johnny Cash’s late career such a boost, but it’s a step in that direction
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pictures & video
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To celebrate the publication of John le Carré’s first memoir The Pigeon Tunnel this month, actor Toby Jones reads from the author’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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In The Young Pope, Jude Law plays Lenny Belardo – a saint, a sinner, a chain-smoker, and the first American Pope in history. Take a first look at the extended trailer before the programme’s world premiere at Venice film festival
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To celebrate the publication of John le Carré’s first memoir The Pigeon Tunnel, actor Rachel Weisz reads from the author’s novel The Constant Gardener
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Yvon Rainville works on one of Canada’s landmarks, 26 September 1973
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Shortly to premiere at the Venice film festival, David Lynch: The Art Life takes viewers on a journey with the iconic American director, back to his formative years in small-town Montana and the harder streets of Philadelphia
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The eerie, misty video to Beautiful People, shown at Sundance, is now online exclusively for the Guardian. Take a look
Shakespeare Solos
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Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from King Lear, in which Edmund reflects upon being an illegitimate son and plots against his half-brother, Edgar
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Jaques’s speech about the seven ages of man from As You Like It is performed by Zawe Ashton
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In a speech taken from the first scene of All’s Well That Ends Well, Sacha Dhawan’s Parolles stresses the importance of losing one’s virginity
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David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night in which, disguised as a page boy, she wonders whether Olivia has fallen in love with her
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Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. Emilia, Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s maid, counsels Desdemona on marital fidelity
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The Obama years Leading novelists assess his legacy