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  • Jon Stewart on Trump allegedly falling asleep during the first day of his criminal trial: “Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial.”

    Jon Stewart on Trump’s trial nap
    ‘Imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial’

  • Nathan Sawaya with his sculpture Big Yellow, a man made of yellow Lego opening his chest with his hands

    The Wall Street lawyer who quit to make Lego art
    ‘It is a job, not a hobby’

    Nathan Sawaya’s sculptures have been in galleries around the world – and a Lady Gaga video. He talks about art critics, auditioning to be a ‘master model builder’ and why he has no Lego at home
  • The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, An American Bombing

    ‘More than just a crime story’: the Oklahoma City bombing and a rise in domestic terrorism

    The documentary An American Bombing shows how the 1995 act of terror, which killed 168 people, spoke to an increase in US anti-government extremism
  • Romeo + Julet - Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler

    Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler to lead ‘brutal’ Romeo + Juliet on Broadway

  • Bryce Dallas Howard at Toronto international film festival.

    Post your questions for Bryce Dallas Howard

  • The closed Israeli national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy.

    Artists refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until ceasefire is reached

  • Searching for the meaning of life … Harold Halibut.

    As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman
    Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game

Talking points

People

  • ‘All of the instruments on this record are from Jeff’ … Claire Rousay.

    ‘Gender and sexuality on a spectrum – I started to unravel all of that’
    Musician Claire Rousay on dating, depression and Jeff Tweedy

  • ‘The body knows. And the camera shows’ … Self-Portrait Lying Down, 1975.

    ‘He was a born member of the underground’
    How Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

    • Hannah Waddingham on Olivier Awards red carpet

      Hannah Waddingham
      Don’t say ‘show a little leg’, actor rebukes photographer

    • Todd Howard, director of the Fallout game series, and Jonathan Nolan, director of the Fallout TV show.

      ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’: Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout

    • Akon

      Akon’s honest playlist: ‘The best song to have sex to? Smack That by Akon’

The big picture

  • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

    ‘We’d wait all day for a train’: America by rail – in pictures

    Justine Kurland’s images capture her unique life raising a child on the road – and offer up a joyous escape from the traditional family photo album

Reviews

  • The author David Nicholls, sitting at a table.

    You Are Here by David Nicholls
    Love is in the fresh air

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Knife by Salman Rushdie
    A story of hatred defeated by love

    • Cleveland Cavaliers James slam dunks against the Los Angeles Clippers during their NBA basketball game in Los Angeles<br>Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James slam dunks against the Los Angeles Clippers during their NBA basketball game in Los Angeles November 11, 2007. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES)

      Books
      There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib – hoop dreams and home truths

    • Rooftop Beatles<br>30th January 1969: British rock group the Beatles performing their last live public concert on the rooftop of the Apple Organization building for director Michael Lindsey-Hogg's film documentary, 'Let It Be,' on Savile Row, London, England. Drummer Ringo Starr sits behind his kit. Singer/songwriters Paul McCartney and John Lennon perform at their microphones, and guitarist George Harrison (1943 - 2001) stands behind them. Lennon's wife Yoko Ono sits at right. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) white;format landscape;male;musical instrument;audio equipment;equipment;Music;Pop;Songwriter;Drummer;Guitarist;Film; P/BEATLES/1969;The

      Books
      All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines – from best man to muckraker

    • Rupert Thomson.

      Books
      How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson – a stark study of male rage

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Pictures & video

  • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

    ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

    Justine Kurland’s images capture her unique life raising a child on the road – and offer up a joyous escape from the traditional family photo album
  • Olivier Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall some members of the cast of Guys and Dolls

    Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards – in pictures

  • triptych crab

    The Guardian picture essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

  • In pictures
    Exploring why we photograph animals

  • Nuclear reactor or medieval castle?
    Brutal Welsh architecture

  • Domestic bliss
    Legends in their own living rooms

  • Freemasons, rodeo riders and praise dancers
    Black lives in the US south

  • My best shot
    Mediumweight finger-wrestlers at the Bavarian championships

  • Cracking geysers
    The world’s most thrilling hot springs

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