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The brilliant novel Dear Monica Lewinsky made me think back on a summer on a movie set with men who knew better than to cross the line

A recent mathematical breakthrough by an AI model suggests that it can, but when it comes to questions of morality, empathy and inspiration, things start to look very different

A vampiric director exploits his own characters in the master film-maker’s witty, honest Bitter Christmas

How the little pets went from the bottom of the garden to the top of social media

Those defending Jason Arday’s accuser consider themselves to be politically neutral defenders of academic values. They are deluded

The bucket and spade jaunt gave way in the 80s to cheap package holidays in the Med. But now southern Europe’s just too hot, it’s time to hit the UK riviera

The inside story on why Will Self has had a long go at the editors of The New World

The epitome of acceptance and joy, she was a protector for anyone ever felt unseen, unloved or unsafe

No 10: Full Confidence offers a surprisingly good lesson in the misery of governing Britain

The smart, subversive cartoon comedy that a studio tried to kill turns an accident-prone predator into an unlikely champion against corporate power

Electra/Persona merges Sophocles and Bergman with enthralling results

A show on Channel 4 says the condition has nothing to do with the brain, but is environmental. I have ADHD – I can tell you, that's dead wrong

Each rock movie is packed with clichés about real events and songwriting. Now Sam Mendes has that problem fourfold

Hollywood used to understand desire. Now even its sex comedies are embarrassed about the bedroom

Silent as a child, she was feted by Warhol and the press before vanishing at the height of her fame

Most music biographies are lazy and rubbish. Here are 10 exceptions

Seven decades after Ellis faced the hangman, author Louisa Treger argues that the attitudes behind her execution have not disappeared

Felix Hartlaub’s scathing notes on ‘one fanatic and a heap of ingratiating rubber dwarves’ may have got him killed

Seventeen reasons to be cheerful about our terrifyingly intense summer

If you finish a novel and you haven’t posted about it, have you really read it at all?

He built a global philosophy of physical freedom – but demanded absolute commitment

Younger people now tend to pronounce it Low-es-toft, but Low-st’f is historically accurate

If you pick a lane at the lido then you need to move at the right speed – and if not, then what on earth are you thinking?

It was once a great search engine. But then along came AI, and that was that

The pristine Italian lake is now threatened by an invasive species, some of which grow to nearly 3m in length. No one wants to eat them – so what do you do?

A shop in the US put up a sign banning influencers and the response made it all the more clear that it is absolutely time to ban influencers

The New World’s writers give travel tips for getting to the parts of Europe others cannot reach

People think the only way tech companies can sell targeted ads is through snooping – the truth is much more mundane and in a way, much worse

Dominic Sessa is formidable in the biopic about the making of a celebrity chef

From an actor in a bag to brutal Japan and Britain’s privatisation rip-off, here’s what belongs in your suitcase