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Arts

  • Inside the mind of a teenager … Inside Out 2.

    Inside Out 2
    Pixar returns to emotional Mission Control for Riley’s teen years

  • ‘There’s definitely a tinge of jealousy’ … Russell Crowe in Gladiator.

    Russell Crowe
    I’m ‘slightly uncomfortable’ with Gladiator 2

    Actor’s character was killed in Ridley Scott’s 2000 original and focus in sequel, due for Christmas release, moves to role played by Paul Mescal
  • The poster for Paddington in Peru.

    Hard stares ready: first trailer released for Paddington 3

    Paddington in Peru, which sees Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas and Emily Mortimer join the cast, sees the beloved bear travel to Peru to visit Aunt Lucy

Talking points

  • Dictators as gangsters … a cut-out of Hitler adorns a manuscript of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Brecht’s allegory about the Führer’s path to power.

    Glued to Hitler
    What Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold

  • Books on shelves in library

    Book about book bans banned by Florida school board

  • Composite of Tom Cruise and the Paramount logo.

    Paramount tycoon Shari Redstone pulls the plug on proposed Skydance merger

  • Mickey Mouse in a 1928 version of Steamboat Willie.

    After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

    Stuart Heritage

People

  • Kevin Jonas.

    Pop singer Kevin Jonas documents skin cancer treatment

  • Francoise Hardy circa 1965.

    Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist

    Alexis Petridis
    • four men in green suits on a stage holding microphones

      Four Tops
      Singer sues hospital for assuming mental illness after he revealed identity

    • ‘The rabbit hole felt like the place to aim at’ … Tilda Swinton.

      ‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’
      Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience

    • ‘It’s good to be vigilant’ … Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

      Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments

The big picture

  • Mellow in yellow … an image from Shin Noguchi’s In Color In Japan: Selected and New Works

    Doggy dazzlers! Colourful Japanese street scenes – in pictures

    Peeping pooches, five-year-old photobombers and a guest appearance from the Fab Four all feature in Shin Noguchi’s vibrant photography

Reviews

  • Still shows Jake Gyllenhaal and Renate Reinsve in a scene from the series Presumed Innocent.

    Presumed Innocent
    Jake Gyllenhaal gets his first TV role … and it’s impossible to care about it

  • Aamna Mohdin.

    Books
    Scattered by Aamna Mohdin – the road to survival

    • Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

      Books
      Sandwich by Catherine Newman – emotional crisis and comedy in Cape Cod

    • Lauren Elkin at the Cheltenham Literature Festival

      Books
      Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin – an erudite first novel with horny energy

    • Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson

      Books
      Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove – a soundtrack for the world, from the Sugarhill Gang to Kanye West

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Pictures & video

  • Two girls on a swing attached to a lamp-post

    Sam Hanna
    The ‘Lowry of film-making’

    Hanna’s work depicts people of all ages as they lived and worked in a region that was rapidly losing its industrial identity in postwar Britain
  • Mellow in yellow … an image from Shin Noguchi’s In Color In Japan: Selected and New Works

    Doggy dazzlers!
    Colourful Japanese street scenes

  • Grandmother and Grandson, Tamburi

    ‘Protecting them is impossible’
    Raising children near steelworks

  • Photography
    Two miles above ground: Donn Delson’s aerial photographs

  • Teenage kicks
    The bumpy ride of adolescence

  • Flowered up!
    The best of Photo Basel

  • Where the magic happens
    Americans and their bedrooms

  • New York City
    Inside the last of the original artists’ lofts

  • Now spread your wings!
    Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake

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