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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

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

The singer’s remarkable new album West End Girl reveals a world in which women are gaslit into accepting their partners cheating

Scott Cooper’s superior biopic is a nuanced and absorbing account of a very particular cultural and personal moment in time

Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent thriller A House of Dynamite is part of a mushrooming trend

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

I’ve no idea why film is the one medium I just can’t seem to crack. Maybe it’s my attention span

Morphemes are the building blocks essential for the composition of words

The Thai duty-free magnate bought Leicester City and brought it the most unlikely title in English football history

The industry has fostered a cult of personality that seems to leave the tech press starstruck and unquestioning of nonsensical claims

From September to early October, red wine gushes from Rome’s central two fountains. Forget the Trevi, this is what you need to see when you visit

In his boldest book yet, Ben Myers turns his gaze on the German actor’s infamous 1971 performance and on his own obsession with it

Lucy Easthope, one of the world’s prominent emergency planners, on coping with horror and tragedy

In a former grain silo, two pioneering abstract artists’ visions of warmth and peace

The mysterious serial killer who terrorised Florence is the subject of yet another true crime Netflix show

While Donald Trump may have forged a ceasefire, an exhibition at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe outlines the cultural vandalism Palestinians have suffered

The Artist’s Way is an old self-help book enjoying a revival – because its advice seems tailor-made for our scrolling world

The celebrity version of the show offers fake deaths and fake terror, but surprisingly real tedium

Shootings and snakes won’t stop Nicholas Evans’s award-winning work documenting the world’s smaller languages

Despite the star power, it’s hard to feel engaged or uplifted by a self-indulgent snooze

Peter Barron goes in search of The Last Wolf, the new Nobel Laureate’s shaggy tale of a visit to the beautiful but remote region of Extremadura

Bold and unsettling, Luca Guadagnino’s latest project easily transcends its contemporary source material

A sci-fi film from 2013 was meant to offer a utopian vision of the future – in fact it is a perfect picture of our age of techno nihilism

A new exhibition at IWM London is a stark reminder of how Britain's post-colonial conflicts shaped the modern world

How 17th-century French pronunciation was taken across the Atlantic Ocean from northern and western France to North America

Discouraged by the sexism she’d suffered in mountain climbing circles, Tabei took matters into her own hands

Ketty La Rocca’s early death brought a sudden halt to her witty, melancholy outsider art

The old models aren’t working like they used to – it’s time for something different

Jung Chang on her family’s painful history with the communist regime – and her sequel to the bestselling Wild Swans