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Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision of a beautiful, sustainable planet. Now it inspires Hollywood movies and real-life tech. Can it change the world?

Mick Herron’s spy thriller series and Will Smith’s magnificent adaptation have become pitch-perfect accompaniments to the shabbiness and disillusionment of Britain today

Jonathan Buckley’s female protagonist only exists to validate the male characters around her. She’s utterly unbelievable

Robert Redford’s death reminds us of his effortless greatness - and that the age of the Hollywood giant is itself fading into history

Most entertainment produced by streaming giants is quite nothingy these days

The guitar took Jimi Hendrix to stratospheric heights; first as a backing musician for the Isley Brothers and Little Richard, then to swinging London

As the Pompidou Centre in Paris prepares to close for a five-year renovation, it is staging the largest single show in its entire history

Music made with artificial intelligence is funny, viral and quietly insidious

The Voice of Hind Rajab, about the last hours of a five-year-old, is breaking audiences and winning awards

New experiments have failed to prove that cold fusion will lead to a practical energy source

How many native English speakers would be entirely comfortable conducting a press conference in some language other than their own?

Should I have felt betrayed when I discovered the autobiography I’d read was mostly fiction?

Folklore still fascinates at Iceland’s pan-Nordic jazz mash-up

Uniting in collective mockery of self-obsessed billionaires can help us to remain sane

François Ozon makes bold artistic decisions in his adaptation of L’Étranger

A wave of female writers use pitch-black fairytales to address the evil in Argentina’s past

Major Tom may be gone, but the new David Bowie Centre at V&A East displays the extraordinary treasures he left behind

When he won the presidency promising “the Chilean path to socialism”, the US immediately registered him as a profound ideological threat

This film by Chinese physicists lasts just 60 thousandths of a second, and can only be followed by eye when slowed down by a factor of 30 or so

The wartime artist who lampooned Hitler gets his first exhibition

We invented algorithms to sort our words. Now the algorithms are teaching us how to speak

The word algorithm would appear at first sight to come into the same Arabic-loan category as algebra, and it does indeed have an origin in the Arabic language

A package resort deal reminded me of one of the most important things in life – the ancient Greek philosopher would have approved

The uncanny art of Jane and Louise Wilson uncovers the future hidden inside surveillance footage, irradiated film and ancient wood

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

The UK adopted intrusive US-style sirens in the 1990s. They’re scientifically worse for our ears and our sleep than the ones used in Europe. Do they have to be so shrill?

A giant of 20th-century design had fallen into obscurity – but then it turned out he was still alive

Indie director Jim Jarmusch scooped the award with Father Mother Sister Brother - but what does this say about the future of film festivals?

Anything she releases is devoured by her millions of fans. But what, really, is she selling?