Interview

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

The Oscar-winning director of The Artist returns with a fairytale rooted in horror

Set in a future where the government decides who gets to have children, The Assessment is a personal triumph for film-maker Fleur Fortuné

The acclaimed artist takes Florence in her first institutional solo show in Italy

Under communism, Polish artists were given freedom to produce posters advertising Hollywood films in a way their makers never dreamed of

The Irish writer with the ‘blazingly daring’ style is back. But don’t call her the next James Joyce

A new biopic covers the short life of basketball’s Dražen Petrović, Croatia’s greatest sporting hero

In a time of crisis, the former Labour leader says he’d rejoin the EU tomorrow – and wants the Brexit reset to be speeded up

Five years after Britain left the EU, the co-presidents of European Movement UK believe the country needs to begin a serious discussion about rejoining – but Farage, and his Tory admirers, are getting in the way

There were at least six orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty years after the camp’s liberation, most of their music has been lost to history. Can conductor Leo Geyer change that?

Jesse Eisenberg’s film turns the darkest material into a deftly funny Oscar contender

From catchy pop hits to far right death threats and knife attacks – the shocking story of the Swedish pop group

The Bad Sisters bad guy turns hero in William Tell – and tells us how his name is really pronounced…

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

Death of England, one of the cultural highlights of 2024, is coming to streaming. But what’s next for playwright Roy Williams?

The chair of the Labour Movement for Europe explains why the group is not campaigning to rejoin the EU – but trying to salvage relations instead