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Research shows that listening to a novel is just as good for our brains as leafing through one. Now sales are outperforming every other sector of publishing

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

His Thursday Murder Club books are brilliantly crafted. Which makes the total failure of the film version so puzzling

The Mayfair version of a glitzy Manhattan restaurant arrives with style – and some doubts

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

Our English orthography gives no assistance at all to help readers tell where the emphasis should be placed

It was Emilie who organised the move of their factory to Brünnlitz, Czechoslovakia, one which would lead to the saving of 1,200 lives

Trump and Kennedy want a simple answer to this very complex problem. And it must be an answer that fits their scepticism of much mainstream medicine

In a London exhibition, Gaza’s photographers reveal their world of sorrow and defiance

A book that reveals shifting attitudes between sympathy and exclusion in society’s treatment of learning disability

Carlos Acosta’s ballet celebrates a band that is woven into Birmingham’s cultural soul

The Royal Observatory is celebrating its 350th year, and partly owes its existence to a king’s mistress

Just when America most needs dissenting voices, the comedian is retiring from his brilliant WTF podcast after 16 years

The new David Bowie Centre fails when it reduces his ambiguities to tidy lessons – and soars when it simply shows off stagewear and possessions

Once shocking, Mr Sloane now feels quaint - but still fun

Sensational and deeply cerebral, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature film is a stone-cold masterpiece

A new book on the role of the whips office raises an exasperating question about the role of politicians

The Eat, Pray, Love author is back with a shocking memoir that reveals far more about her glib manipulations than she understands

The actor excels as a pub philosopher in Conor McPherson’s The Weir

Indhu Rubasingham banishes the doldrums of her predecessor with a big, bold Bacchae

This year’s long list boasts parental bonds, family dynamics and an entry I cannot get my head around

Happy-clappy beige influencers are everywhere now, encouraging us to stay away from anything that makes life worth living

The sport’s familiar – but often baffling – terminology has its origins in Anglo-Norman instructions, Old French numbers and Arabic palms

From The Man From UNCLE to NCIS, the Scottish actor defied typecasting to become a global star and a fixture of television history

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has found organic carbon in Martian rocks – but scientists have warned against jumping to conclusions after previous false alarms

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City reveals how the ghosts of Nazi occupation are still present, more than 80 years later

Today’s worldwide boom follows decades of resistance – but the battle for equal status is far from won

Winnie M Li’s novel brought back painful memories of sibling resentment and hurt

More fans are taking it in the stands. The bans have begun, but it won’t change the British need to do everything to excess

In the face of a crackdown, the Istanbul biennial returns with fewer homegrown artists and political content neutered

The London artists who united in their desire to oppose the first wave of fascism in Europe