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The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition showcases artworks so black that they seem to undermine the very rules by which we perceive the world

How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age

Some words have two unconnected meanings – others have simply drifted apart

The chancellor decided that too many Germans were skiving, so he tried to change the rules. But it didn’t work

Homer’s epic speaks powerfully to any age troubled by anxiety that the notion of home, reciprocity and social stability is in jeopardy

I used to pray for days of 30-degree temperatures. But this year, something has shifted

Billed as a sex comedy, it’s subtle, ambiguous and moving

It has always happened. But why? And how far can it go before things start to turn unhealthy?

I hadn't downloaded any films or podcasts for my journey, but in the end it turned out I didn’t need any. All I needed was the window

Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth

Women are getting the needle with the president – but history shows many examples of the use of knitting as a tool for protest

I bought a huge cross of St George for the 1990 World Cup and I recently got it out again. But I’m having second thoughts about actually flying it

Little has made me proud to be British in recent years – except this

The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour

Visiting JR’s La Caverne du Pont Neuf, the installation a storm couldn’t stop

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

With guns, grenades, flamethrowers and sabotage training, the Home Guard were no laughing matter

Fresh analysis of dietary trials raises some awkward questions about UPFs and evidence-based science

His final goal captured everything fans loved about the man who called himself ‘a small guy from Gondomar’

Exploring sporting polysemy – the cases where a single word has several different, even if often related, meanings

It would be a cruel twist – but Silicon Valley doesn’t care about copyright and trains its AI systems using the work of writers who see no benefit. If that continues, the role of the writer may cease to exist

Photographs of iron curtain research labs reveal the depth of communist ambition – and the fatal flaw buried within it

The PM-in-waiting’s playlist choices are sound. But then so were Boris Johnson’s

The extremist thug, agitator and convicted fraudster has somehow managed to get his show on to Spotify. If his first episode is anything to go by, it’ll be a downpour of race-baiting poison

From Rwanda to Iraq, Sally Hayden has spent her career reporting from war zones. Her new book highlights extraordinary acts by ordinary people caught up in crisis

The Curb Your Enthusiasm star’s US history sketch series is pretty, pretty funny – and stacked with digs at Trump

Trump wants to change the rules around building in the great wild spaces of the US west. But if he gets his way, something fundamental will be lost that can never be won back

The former chancellor’s Can We Be Rich Again? offers a dated prescription that breezes past immigration in the blink of an eye