Interview

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

Jacques Audiard’s brilliant Emilia Pérez is a musical like no other, by turns funny, tragic and thrilling

The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family

An edge-of-the-pulpit papal thriller from the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light offers lessons in weakness, venality and doubt

The Feargal Sharkey-approved hip hop trio are tearing up the world with message-based rap that’s neither hectoring nor earnest

The story of Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko captures the reason why the country must fight, why it must win and why the west needs to support it all the way

Over two years after her release, the former detainee on stolen time, hostage diplomacy and the lessons to be learned from her case

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

Johnson says that his new book on Harold Wilson isn’t meant as a message to the current PM. But it is

The Green party risks being dismissed as a hard left protest vote – how can it broaden its appeal?

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

Launched in London by a pair of Italian brothers, the much-loved I Camisa is closing after nearly a century in Soho. Why?

How Råpunk – raw punk – brought pure rage to Sweden

How Berlin made the notorious, magnificent Einstürzende Neubauten

A remarkable new documentary sees the son of commandant Rudolph Höss meet a survivor of his father’s murder factory

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world

A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist

Did the Gaza encampments that sprung up across British universities achieve anything?

A new movie role shows there is much more to Sofie Gråbøl than that chunky jumper she wore as Sarah Lund in the classic Scandi noir drama

The remarkable Alice Rohrwacher on buried treasure and directing without a safety net

Photographer Polly Braden has spent two years following the lives of Ukrainian women and children displaced by Putin’s invasion

Dutch sensation Froukje makes dance music with lyrics about grief, the climate crisis and her own brand of radical optimism

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

His great contemporaries are gone, but the director is still shaking his fists – and miraculously, his films are getting even better

A flood of Russian money has undeniably corrupted British politics – but to what extent? It is now time for an inquiry to find out

The actor – reliably excellent as the singer’s father, Mitch, in Back to Black – on addiction, social media rage and antisemitism

The Italian-Northern Irish stand-up has built a huge following by poking fun at Britain’s past

Timpson’s high street company mends shoes, cuts keys and helps prisoners rehabilitate. Is it all too good to be true?

After 40 years on hiatus, south London’s Cymande are stars of a superb biopic and out on a European tour

A long (and brilliant) article about Steve McQueen’s long (and brilliant) documentary about Amsterdam under the Nazis, Occupied City

A “yes” to independence would also mean “yes” to Brussels