Now forgotten, Out of the Unknown was a series of bold, one-off sci-fi dramas

Embeth Davidtz stars and directs, with outstanding performances from Zikhona Bali and seven-year-old Lexi Venter as Bobo as white minority rule ends Continue reading...

How Mary Shelley's novel's phenomenal success overshadowed its message

A bothered bear; a great guide to drawing; a life of Josephine Baker; a role model daughter; a search for words and more Continue reading...

Apple TV+ show Mr Scorsese gives deep insight into the great US film-maker

Albert Speer distanced himself from Nazi atrocities at the Nuremberg tribunal

The ninth novel in the Slough House series, this tale of IRA infiltration is a perfect mix of one-liners, plot twists and real-world-tinged intrigue Continue reading...

What if Descartes had melted his brain on acid? Find out in this mind-expanding exploration of drugs and formal philosophy Continue reading...

The TV star and his co-author make a compelling argument for properly addressing the legacies of slavery Continue reading...

New Netflix comedy drama Boots shows what gay recruits have had to endure

A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastrophe Continue reading...

Where better to hunker down in the autumn than the ultimate snug home?

Scabrous satire drives this camp, goofy sequel about a cabal of writing students at an Ivy league university – its hot-boyfriend golems are adorable Continue reading...

For centuries the ultimate emblem of Britishness has had many meanings

The bestselling author returns with an account of how her homeland has changed – and the personal costs of fame Continue reading...

How the unflinching, surreal gaze of Lee Miller bore witness to WW2 brutality

A data scientist rebuts 50 arguments against green technology with lively pragmatism and authority Continue reading...

The bestselling novelist, who died yesterday, was beloved in the UK – here's why

In 1987, the BBC reported on the scientists who used sonar to hunt for Nessie

Adapted for the screen from his own novel Walter Mosley examines power dynamics and racial tension with a deftly disquieting hand in this deeply strange parable Continue reading...

Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking points Continue reading...

The Oscar-winning drama about the birth of Facebook was eerily prophetic

Code-breaking hero Robert Langdon is back for another conspiracy thriller, featuring underground laboratories and new thoughts on the nature of consciousness Continue reading...

New film Good Boy tells its scary story from the point of a view of a pooch

Longlisted for the Booker, this capacious story of love, work and family set between India and the US is both dizzyingly vast and insistently miniature Continue reading...

From a Dwayne Johnson MMA biopic to Julia Roberts in a campus drama

An ambitious history of Britain’s volatile relationship with Europe, culminating in the 2016 referendum Continue reading...

Why Anna Magnani deserves to be as well-known as Sophia Loren around the world

Essays from Zadie Smith; Wiki founder Jimmy Wales on how to save the internet; a future-set novel by Ian McEwan; a new case for the Slow Horses - plus memoirs from Kamala Harris and Paul McCartney… all among this season’s highlights Continue reading...

From the return of rom-com Nobody Wants This to a series about Martin Scorsese

On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image of a human face

Their recovery tells a story of loss and resistance

From an 'epic' coming-of-age story to 'delicious' dark academia

A secret world in the original Super Mario Bros game has become legendary

A new Netflix show tells the thrilling story of brewing dynasty the Guinnesses

The play's nude scene was infamous, but other aspects were just as radical

How a painting by US artist Kerry James Marshall is packed with significance

From Taylor Swift to Hamnet, what to watch, listen to and read this season

Marie Antoinette was once the most despised woman in Europe – but why?

This luminous and tender 20th-century saga of wounded souls and small-town secrets has a deep melancholy Continue reading...

This "virtuosic" triumph is "ridiculously funny"

The newsroom-set series with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon is back

Troubled by a photo of her grandmother living it up in Mussolini’s Italy, the author of Free delves into archive and memory to uncover the truth Continue reading...

Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera star in a true story of a heroic rescue

From Shakespeare’s fools to Donald Trump, this exhilarating read considers stupidity in its many forms Continue reading...

In 1955, the Royal Navy annexed a bleak, uninhabited rock

Originally published a year before her death, the Danish author’s final novel is an autofictional suicide note Continue reading...

The first novel from the Send Nudes author moves from a Brighton club to baby feeding Continue reading...

From Michelangelo to Banksy - art has routinely been censored

A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed tale Continue reading...