To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on

Apples For Isaac finds Echo & The Bunnymen reconnecting with their wild, inventive roots in one of their strongest albums for decades

Inventive jazz drama explores a little-known chapter in a legendary musician's life, turning loss, addiction and renewal into great cinema

Michael Wood is an emeritus professor at Princeton. He has written books on Yeats, Nabokov, Stendhal, Hitchcock and Empson, among other things.

Cuts to the Access to Work scheme will mean no more contributions to shows like Sex Education, Call the Midwife or The Hack. It will be devastating to lose such talent, says TV writer Annalisa Dinnell...

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

The old rock and roller with his two-seater stroller

Cornetto to Magnum: How fifteen influential years changed British culture. Words by Ruby Tandoh. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026

McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026

The six-part series stars Matthew Rhys as Harry Evans, whose team broke some of the biggest stories in UK history

In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’

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In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial

Like a klatch of backslapping gerbils

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10 things we learned from attending Morrissey's show at London's The O2 Arena on Saturday, February 28, 2026

NSP Guest Post! Joey Connolly on perplexity, burstiness and the strange new light AI is turning on our all-too-human art form

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Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on

Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet brings it all back home again as a street-smart hustler in Josh Safdie's screwball caper

Soft Cell's Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all: “It was sex, drugs and electronic rock’n’roll!”

Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic

Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic

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With his new film, One Battle After Another, director Paul Thomas Anderson rises to the challenge of his times

This is the bass-drum head from the kit I used as a member of an R&B band in 1964-65. Last week, two days after I’d taken it to the recycling centre as part of a general clearout of super…

Brett and the boys set the controls for the heart of darkness on resurgent 10th album