Interview

Andy West, the man who inspired the hit new drama, on nature, change and the ‘terrible, dehumanising’ life behind bars

The star who began in children's theatre in a Norwegian forest is Oscar-bound with Sentimental Value

Being right or wrong is not as important as what you do in the service of those opinions and how far you are willing to go

She won’t talk politics, but her career speaks volumes - and it shows her city is a multicultural success

Wolfgang Flür, once part of the band’s classic line-up, on putting humanity into electronic music

Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest

As geopolitical tensions rise, a new generation of artists is quietly rewriting the script

When philosopher Manon Garcia went to the Gisèle Pelicot trial, what struck her most was the defendants’ sheer lack of remorse. If we can’t change this, she asks, can we live with men?

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

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

Exclusive: We track down the student whose arrest exposes absurdity of Palestine Action’s proscription

As a child in the National Front’s heyday, fear made HOPE not Hate’s CEO try to conceal his origins. Now he says tensions are worse than they were in 1979

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City reveals how the ghosts of Nazi occupation are still present, more than 80 years later

As the Pompidou Centre in Paris prepares to close for a five-year renovation, it is staging the largest single show in its entire history

The Voice of Hind Rajab, about the last hours of a five-year-old, is breaking audiences and winning awards

The Lib Dems beat Reform at the election but lost the media war. Now their leader warns that Farage and Robinson seek to tear Britain apart for personal gain

As his own star rises, global noir writer Nicolás Obregón is raging at the state of the world

One design house used an AI model for its latest campaign. The photographer Rankin says everyone’s at it

Formed at the height of punk and revered by fans like Kurt Cobain, the Raincoats are the band that refused to die

Victoria Mapplebeck’s remarkable Motherboard takes us on a journey from womb to adulthood

London’s Laptop Orchestra is reinventing classical music by teaching computers to play

In an exclusive interview, Gary Lineker talks to Matt Kelly about the war in Gaza, his exit from the BBC, and life as a podcasting media mogul

Chechen human rights investigator Natalia Estemirova defied Russia - and was killed. Now her daughter is keeping her fight alive

The creator and star of a new postwar drama talks literature, the second world war and unconventional Hollywood marriages

Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear

The Greens’ leader wants to fight Reform using left wing populism. But if he lets in the Corbynistas, will they ruin everything – again?

Meeting the painter Sean Scully was an opportunity to ask him about his art – but do the questions make any sense?

Meet Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia – she wants her country in Europe, not swallowed by Russia. And she has a fight on her hands

Lewis’s new book, The Genius Myth, skewers rebel innovators who come to believe they can do no wrong. Remind you of anyone?

A book that finds the joy in Europe’s lines of division

Is Italy’s most famous director all style and no substance?

‘When did anti-fascism become controversial?’ Director Joe Wright on the future of M: Son of the Century, his streaming series about Italy's fascist dictator