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According to the right wing, both in Britain and elsewhere, major cities are ridden with violence and crime

Lessing wrote not about poverty, but literary poverty – what happens when eager minds are deprived of books

Generative biology will be inspired more by embryology than by genetic engineering

In my pre-enlightened days, I joined a Billy Joel fan club. When I left the piano man behind, his life descended into despair

With tired jump scares, flat CGI and a ludicrous government subplot, IT: Welcome To Derry is a giant turkey

The idea England ever spoke no languages other than English is a fantasy with no foundation in reality

Middleland is part elegy, part memoir – and reveals the isolation of a politician too thoughtful for his time

Bev Turner’s new late-night programme from Washington DC is stuffed with lies. So why am I watching?

Nick Trend’s new book explores the places where Giotto and Leonardo constructed a country’s heritage

Wolfgang Flür, once part of the band’s classic line-up, on putting humanity into electronic music

The advance of human civilisation has been driven by the use of minerals - in the long run, the lesson is that political and military power comes from the earth’s crust

Sally Wainwright’s punk requiem for the invisible offers a loud argument that rage can bring change

This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema

Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest

Starting with Jennifer Lawrence’s Die My Love, a new wave of women-led films is showing what it really means to come undone

Can an alignment of names and occupations ever have involved more than just simple coincidence?

His fans love his humour, his cheerful self-deprecation, his gritty gentleness, his ability to make sense of the brittleness of the world

When it comes to celebrating the dead, can AI do the job as well as a loved one?

As geopolitical tensions rise, a new generation of artists is quietly rewriting the script

As Cop30 approaches, apocalyptic visions look more everyday than ever

Nothing is more transparent than Silicon Valley’s fixation with longevity and, ideally, immortality, revealing a desperate fear of death

Digital mystics are flooding TikTok and Etsy – and with religion fading and loneliness rising, they’re filling a spiritual vacuum

The far right activist’s assassination was the catalyst for an artist drawing a line under his annual memorial project

It’s fun to entertain the possibility of panpsychism – that all the physical things around you have some level of experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s how reality works

At the heart of Tom Morris’s brilliant production is Toby Jones’s astonishing performance of Iago. It is, by far, the best I've ever seen

Eight ships that sailed into history show how the past can often be found in the great hunks of floating metal

There’s more humanity in this standout play about Thatcher’s Britain than in the decade itself

Bugonia is their fifth film together, and for some, the magic is wearing thin

From The Shining to Get Out, here's our editor-at-large's guide of what to watch this Halloween

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