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Arts

  • A color-tinted photo of three smiling white men wearing casual suits and standing in a row, looking in the same direction, in front of a pink rosebush and a white picket fence.

    Books
    'They always got away with it': new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

  • A scene from Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD.

    Games
    Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD – the scariest surprise is the price

    As ever, Mario’s brother is a scream, but the price of this remaster may spook you
  • Film still: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

    Film
    Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to open Venice film festival

    The much-anticipated sequel to the director’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice will get its world premiere at the festival in August
  • A color still of an older white woman and a younger white man appearing about to kiss in the vegetable section of a grocery store.

    Film
    From The Idea of You to A Family Affair: the summer of age-gap romances

  • Three states in Brazil banned Jeferson Tenorio’s book, ‘O Avesso da Pele,’ published in the UK as ‘The Dark Side of Skin.’

    Books
    Brazil’s unparalleled spate of book bans is page out of US culture wars

  • Black man wearing black shirt and white and red hat speaks into microphone

    Music
    Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government

  • Killer Mike at the BET awards on Sunday.

    Music
    Killer Mike will not face charges after Grammys arrest

Talking points

  • ‘You’re faced with your mortality – that’s what the show is about”… Crazy Smooth, centre, performs In My Body.

    Stage
    My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury

  • Just the ticket … audience interactions are propelling comedians to stardom

    Comedy
    How viral ‘crowd work’ clips are remaking standup for the social media age

  • Ella Fitzgerald, Donna Summer and Bruce Springsteen

    Music
    ‘Should not be played indoors’: writers on their all-time favourite summertime songs

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Film
    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

People

  • Jacqueline de Jong in 1982.

    Art and design
    Jacqueline de Jong, influential avant garde artist, dies at 85

  • Ismail Kadare

    Books
    ‘An ancient shadow permeates his work’: Alberto Manguel on the genius of Ismail Kadare

    • A composite photo showing Jacques Doillon, left, and Benoit Jacquot

      Film
      French directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon detained over sex assault allegations

    • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

      Film
      ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

    • Author Maggie Nelson in Cindy’s diner in Eagle Rock California on 4th May 2017. Please credit Cindy’s diner in caption if used. Pic © Dan Tuffs dan@dantuffs.com +1 310 774 1780

      Books
      Maggie Nelson: ‘I was overwhelmed with grief when Prince died’

The big picture

  • Basic instinct … Kissing in a Bar, New York City, 1977.

    Close encounters: Arles festival of photography – in pictures

    Enigmatic eggs, US army fashion and Japanese women of the sea feature in exhibitions at this year’s French showcase

Reviews

  • Despicable Me 4.

    Film
    Despicable Me 4 – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

  • A patient's couch belonging to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud at the Freud Museum, London.

    Books
    On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud – the shrink’s shrink engagingly examined by Siri Hustvedt, Susie Boyt and others

    • A house on Long Island, with a large US flag hanging in the front porch.

      Books
      Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner – an old-fashioned maximalist rush of storytelling

    • FILE PHOTO: Ghislaine Maxwell trial in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo

      Books
      The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley – a voice for the powerless

    • BESTPIX: Megan Thee Stallion performs during the Hot Girl Summer Tour at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles<br>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 21: Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage during the Hot Girl Summer Tour at Crypto.com Arena on June 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Live Nation)

      Music
      Megan Thee Stallion: Megan – rap skill showcase is a sour sermon on superiority

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Pictures & video

  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’
    Drag artists with Down’s Syndrome

    Fierce and fantastic, the artists who make up the collective Drag Syndrome explain why performing helps them express who they really are
  • Basic instinct … Kissing in a Bar, New York City, 1977.

    Close encounters
    Arles festival of photography

  • Leanne’s* two sons - Nathan* and Logan* , age 11 and eight, and her daughter, Faith*, six, at their grandma’s home in Tameside.

    Photo essay
    Families behind the two-child limit to benefits

  • Photography
    Giddy up! LensCulture critics’ choice awards

  • Photography
    ‘Some people refused to leave their flats’: Britain through the Thatcher years

  • Photography
    Bogart, Dietrich, Keaton: Faces from Hollywood’s golden years

  • The big picture
    A nudist paradise in 1930s France by Pierre Audebert

  • Gallery
    Bear witness: the white bears of Zakopane – in pictures

  • Photography
    Joel Meyerowitz’s vintage European road trip

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