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The flailing president’s ludicrous name change has an embarrassing linguistic twist

There have been Black people in Britain since the Roman period and yet people still struggle to understand what that really means

For far too long, Germany’s far right have monopolised both the flag and patriotism. Now, the national football coach has a plan to win both of them back

Daring and polarising, Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film reminds us of the important difference between culture wars and authentic argument about art

Emily St John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party is set in a future of mistrust, surveillance and civil war. So why is she still optimistic?

The rankings are parochial and boilerplate – they could easily be renamed ‘Dad’s DVD Collection’

The Dodge City novelist set out expecting a hostile, divided country. What happened next surprised him

In Digger, the Hollywood hero is taking on his toughest stunt yet: trying to disappear

The people-watching painter’s scenes of dancing and flirting captured a Paris on the brink of a social revolution

Despite swirling rumours, no charges had been filed against Sean Combs by mid-May 2024. Then a shocking video and a damning article changed everything

Ink is an advert for the old media that skirts over the damaging journalism Rupert Murodch’s tabloid unleashed

David Kynaston’s new book shows how the Beatles, Carnaby Street and Geoff Hurst obscured years of decline, racism and repression

The French eat three million jambon-beurre baguettes a day – and an affordable place in Paris might serve up the greatest

A company is offering a service that lets parents select the embryo they find most genetically acceptable. If you think this sounds sinister, that’s because it is

The murdered Saudi dissident believed his country could change – and that a journalist must uncover all the facts so people could decide

Sometimes, the least likely explanation in etymology turns out to be the one that’s true

Min Jin Lee’s long-awaited book third book exposes the sacrifices and betrayals that drive family ambition

Åsne Seierstad’s extraordinary Never Say War exposes the violence and indifference at the heart of Russia

The people behind cinema’s unsung stars - from the German Shepherd star of Brad Pitt’s new movie to a black widow spider

Doireann Ní Ghríofa resurrects the forgotten women of a Cork asylum in a mesmerising work of literary séance

The women who made the masterpiece filled it with sex, violence and propaganda

Alex Gibney’s documentary Knife shows the ‘wounded happiness’ of a writer returning in triumph to the venue where he was nearly killed

A film-maker’s obsession with Afghanistan’s forgotten cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand becomes a deeply personal journey into his family’s past

A new biography reveals his mentor Roy Cohn as a man who turned corruption and cruelty into big business

The Windsors were never quite posh enough for our school. Now Harry and William are getting ready for a different kind of class war

Netflix’s new Ted Kaczynski movie arrives just as his violent war on technology is gaining a new generation of admirers from both left and right

The British Museum has decided that smartphones will be banned from the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. I see the point – but I also feel the pain

Ronnie’s has been Britain’s premier jazz venue for decades. But as the cost of a night out in Soho escalates, can it and its new challenger both succeed?

In This F*cking Guy, Erin Ryan catalogues the worst people in the US, from Karoline Leavitt and Kash Patel to Alex Jones and Pete Hegseth

Physicist Carlo Rovelli’s new book says quantum mechanics has demolished one of our most basic assumptions about the world we live in