Review

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity

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

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

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

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

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

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

He is back to thrill and torment us with Red Sheet. Just don’t ask him about Trump

Artist Richard Dadd stabbed to death the father he loved – then spent 42 years producing remarkable work inside the hospital known as Bedlam

A definitive new history settles decades of myths about the ultimate cult band – but are some mysteries better left unresolved?

The director and critic returns with more episodes of his new epic The Story of Documentary Film

Tony, a new biopic of the celebrity chef’s early years, cuts through the sanctimony and myth

The Love Me Tender star on method acting, motherhood and refusing to fit in

The Ghanaian-born collage artist uses newspaper pages and archival photos to connect stories from Britain, West Africa, and the Caribbean

Paying for 30 minutes of rampant destruction offers a rare chance to break plates, rules and a few social expectations too

A new book knows its stuff about the WWE star, but glosses over some of his worst moments

The former minister’s editors have done him no favours, and his lightweight summaries of wars would leave a GCSE history examiner unimpressed

Punishment Park, the brutal mock-doc by Brit Peter Watkins that anticipated our age of rage and recrimination

Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew shine in a show that's far deeper than a standard cat-and-mouse cop drama

A photographer who survived Greece’s deadliest blaze has turned her trauma into testimony against neglect and cover-ups

The painter-turned-director’s In the Hand of Dante has divided critics. Luckily, he thinks it’s a masterpiece

He was a playboy who rubbed shoulders with Warhol and Jagger – and a photographer who captured big beasts driven to the brink

We used to love high-speed trains – before cowardice and waste took over