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One bad night’s sleep and it’s moan, moan moan. They reckon they’re the pinnacle of the species – but what’s the point of living forever if you don’t have a life to start with?

Natasha Walter’s Feminism for a World on Fire has convinced me to leave my lane - it’s the most vital book of the year

Catrin Nye’s BBC podcast Swingers exposes questions of coercion and consent inside online sex communities

A new biopic of the great jazz pianist who died too soon neatly sidesteps music biopic cliches

There are three contenders, but none of them are official

Fact and fiction blend in a gripping and brutal tale of war and ambition

He’s remembered for a single phrase, “the end of history”. But it didn’t mean what everyone thought. It was a much more perceptive comment than it appeared

She parachuted into occupied France as an SOE radio operator. The statue of her in London was the first monument to an Asian woman anywhere in Britain

The equations say that something has to be holding all these galaxies together, or they’d just fly apart. That’s dark matter – has a new experiment finally found it?

Germany has made it easier for families to reclaim artworks stolen by the Nazis. But it looks as if the AfD has other plans

A new book reveals that second-hand stores are struggling to cope with a deluge of thin, synthetic ultra-fast fashion

In the face of war and discrimination, the country’s ballroom scene refuses to surrender its joy

How one photographer helped create the image of the band that we still believe

The Tory choice to run for mayor of London is absolutely not getting my vote. No chance. But I still think he’s a good thing. Here’s why

EXCLUSIVE: The New World’s new diarist goes behind the scenes at a star-studded event in Venice

James Marriott's new book warns about the dark consequences of a new, post-literate age

Non-fiction books aren’t fact-checked any more – and no one has a perfect memory, even of their own lives. So what the hell do publishers expect will happen?

Gloria Steinem, who has died aged 92, was a feminist who changed women’s role in society. So why are these online leftists treating her death with such indifference?

The legend has survived centuries, power ballads and Mel Brooks because it speaks deeply to our concept of Englishness

The answer is that no one can possibly play the Fab Four as well as they played themselves

The extraordinary exhibition that shows how artists found the humanity and horror in a city under siege

The novelist’s portrait of a movie star raises unsettling questions about privacy and truth

The writer tried to embrace the new tech of his age – and ended up imagining ghostly ‘Duplicates’ of humans endlessly churning out text

The actor poured his vulnerability into The Wire’s most celebrated character – with devastating consequences

Ankara wants the world to use its native language name – but there’s more than one problem with that

You’ve come back exhausted, with loads of stuff to do, and facing the prospect of a grim autumn of politics. As for me – this year I did things a little differently

The man who helped to invent modern liberalism also had some distinctly illiberal ideas – including on slavery

Nowadays we doomscroll, but once, we “surfed” the web. One way back to those happier times is to start visiting different kinds of websites. Try these for starters