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Her memoir, A Hymn to Life, details unimaginable abuse at the hands of the man she loved – and still manages to leave you with hope

Alarm over the spread of AI, social media addiction and kids having phones in schools overlooks one small detail – they’re the most important technological advance since the printing press

The new Gorillaz album is a triumph. It also landed its chief creator with more accusations of cultural appropriation

Mackenzie Crook’s gentle comedy has a hard edge - and beneath the supernatural, it’s a show that actually understands real people and their struggles

Do you secretly know very little about art? Are you interested in good stuff that doesn’t need a mortgage to buy it? Then this is the place for you

The genre is big business - but Alice Evelyn Yang’s intoxicating debut novel has ambitions well beyond gore and fantasy

As Ramadan and Lent collide, so do old religion, modern body anxiety and the eternal quest for a reset

Flawed, flamboyant and freakishly gifted, Warne turned leg-spin into high art – and made every ball an event

Ski-slope bump or influential person? Two similar-sounding but unrelated words have merged

This September, I will have lived in the UK for longer than I lived in France. And yet the defining characteristic of British society still remains, to me, a total mystery

Every child who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life

Wagner Moura is magnificent in a Brazilian thriller that’s a stone-cold masterpiece

Dominic Sandbrook’s new literary podcast struggles with forced chemistry

In Good Luck. Have Fun. Don’t Die, Sam Rockwell and Gore Verbinski poke fun at the young’s tech addiction - without realising that older generations are even worse

The Wellcome Sanger – half academic research institute, half industrial laboratory – is perfectly positioned to produce socially useful applications for discoveries

The former president made some comments about extraterrestrial life on a podcast and a lot of people got very excited for all the wrong reasons

Taxi Driver is 50 years old but its main character’s sexless white supremacy makes it more relevant than ever.

By ducking tough questions about Gaza at its opening press conference, the Berlin Film Festival has enraged film-makers, signalled its own irrelevance… and put genocide in the headlines

A new documentary reminds us of what a consummate politician he was - and how much his achievements are tarnished by Iraq

The BBC documentary series shows that when the police fail, survivors become the last line of defence

Emerald Fennell’s third film is far from a well-behaved literary adaptation, but it's thoroughly enjoyable

Jack Thorne has followed Adolescence with another triumphant and troubling piece of work

Chronovisor, Bowels of Hell and Variations on a Theme stand out at the Rotterdam Film Festival

The Old Vic’s elegant new production of Arcadia understands the power of the late playwright’s words

The Saltburn director ropes in Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to give a bleak classic the Bridgerton treatment

Smoking and drinking might be bad for the health, but sitting around with people who see the world differently can have profoundly beneficial effects

How a genuinely old dialect word became part of a made-up East Anglian pub game

How the creator of Peanuts created humour from loneliness and sadness

The former iCarly actor’s debut novel, Half His Age, rewrites the story of an age-gap relationship in crude, embarrassing, brilliant style

An icon’s death marks the end of the era of brilliant individuals who lived like deities

What happens to real women when men get used to girlfriends they can design and silence?