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Arts

  • Alisha Weir as Abigail in Abigail, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett.

    Abigail
    Dracula’s daughter gets kidnapped in fun-sucking horror

  • a man plays the guitar

    Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band co-founder and guitarist, dies aged 80

    Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who wrote the band’s biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, dies at home in Florida ‘surrounded by his whole family’
  • ‘Forced the decisions on to authors’ … PEN America

    Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza

    Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

Talking points

  • Making its power felt … China

    Five of the best books to understand modern China

  • Tom Ripley ‘in disguise’

    ‘Like a stray Bee Gee!’
    Does Andrew Scott’s Ripley have the worst wig in TV history?

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1649933a) Woman Times Seven, Shirley Maclaine Film and Television

    Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine
    Her 20 best films – ranked!

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black.

    ‘The house was small, the life was big’: how Amy Winehouse’s homes were recreated for Back to Black

People

  • ‘Nothing’s passed me by’ … Sheila E pictured at home

    ‘I’ve used hairbrushes, spatulas, car keys, apples ...’ Sheila E on drumming with Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and more

  • Warwick Davis and his wife, Samantha, centre, with Harrison, left, and Annabelle in London in 2022.

    ‘My soul mate’
    Warwick Davis pays tribute to wife Samantha who has died aged 53

    • Kanye West and Bianca Censori at Milan fashiuon week in February 2024.

      Kanye West suspected of attacking man who allegedly sexually assaulted his wife

    • Gadd portrait

      ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’: Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer

    • Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt

      Quentin Tarantino scraps plans for his final film – reports

The big picture

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Party with an 8ft pink panther! Ibiza in the 70s and 80s – in pictures

    Oriol Maspons’s humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era

Reviews

  • Alex Pettyfer and Henry Cavill in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    Guy Ritchie’s fun wartime romp

  • Chloe Guidry and Lily Gladstone in Under the Bridge

    Under the Bridge
    Lily Gladstone leads respectful yet bland true crime drama

    • Sicily.

      The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya
      Sun, sex, scenery and family guilt

    • A volcanic eruption in the 2022 Werner Herzog documentary, The Fire Within, about Katia and Maurice Krafft.

      Books
      Adventures in Volcanoland by Tamsin Mather – fire and brimstone

    • The author David Nicholls, sitting at a table.

      You Are Here by David Nicholls
      Love is in the fresh air

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Pictures & video

  • Black-and-white photo of people dancing on a dancefloor, one in a leotard

    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

    Oriol Maspons’s humorous and playful photographs of the island’s beachgoers and clubbers disclose the new attitudes to nudity, sexuality and freedom of expression in the post-Franco era
  • From the series Soon Will Summer be Over, 2023.

    My best shot
    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra

  • Takkunen Hong Kong3

    All aboard the ‘ding ding’!
    A wild ride through Hong Kong

  • ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
    America by rail

  • Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards – in pictures

  • The Guardian picture essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

  • In pictures
    Exploring why we photograph animals

  • Nuclear reactor or medieval castle?
    Brutal Welsh architecture

  • Domestic bliss
    Legends in their own living rooms

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