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  • David Lynch.

    Film
    ‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph

  • ‘Somebody will always be with me’ … Dame Judi Dench.

    Film
    ‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone

    The actor, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 2012, has also struggled to see on film sets and learn lines having done so thanks to a photographic memory
  • a man holds a microphone

    Music
    Chris Brown sues Warner Bros for $500m over sexual assault allegations in documentary

    The singer has filed a lawsuit against the media conglomerate for making defamatory claims against him in the 2024 film Chris Brown: A History of Violence
  • The force is strong in this one … Ryan Gosling.

    Film
    I’m just Kenobi: Ryan Gosling set to join Star Wars franchise in as-yet-untitled movie

  • Lucy Liu in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence.

    Film
    Presence – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family

  • Edmund White in 1988

    Books
    The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White – a glorious celebration of queer love

  • Leo Woodall scribbles in a notebook, looking apprehensive

    Television
    Prime Target – this stylish thriller is like Good Will Hunting meets The Bourne Identity

Talking points

  • Sensual indulgence … a detail from The Romans in Their Decadence, by Thomas Couture.

    Art and design
    Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art

  • It ain’t me babe … Timothée Chalamet as Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

    Film
    ‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown

  • gospel choir performing

    Art and design
    Arlene Gottfried: the New York photographer who captured the soul of a city

  • Me, me, me … from left, The Visionary by Ralph Wolfe Cowan; The Awakening by Ray Simon; Donald Trump, from the America series, by Andres Serrano.

    Art and design
    Trump’s favourite artists – from the fawner who made him Gatsby to the court sketcher who tackled his bullet-grazed ear

People

  • Receiving his lifetime achievement Grammy … Garth Hudson in 2008.

    Music
    Garth Hudson, founder member of the Band and Bob Dylan collaborator, dies aged 87

  • a man with a gray and white beard looking at the camera

    Film
    Controversial French director Bertrand Blier dies at age 85

    • black and white photo of a man holding an open book in front of a bookcase

      Culture
      Jules Feiffer, award-winning political cartoonist and writer, dies at 95

    • ‘She was loved for good reason’ … Hélène de Beauvoir at work.

      Art and design
      ‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone

    • American novelist Edmund White at his residence in Chelsea , New York Monday 2nd December 2024 New York , NY Amir Hamja for The Guardian

      Books
      Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’d had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

The big picture

  • ‘An imaginary refuge’ … Aminata sleeping, Dakar, Senegal, 2016

    Dream states: the Lynchian imagery of Henry Roy – in pictures

    Over a four-decade career, the Franco-Haitian artist has built his own world of contrasts, contradictions and blissful escape

Reviews

  • With a torn picture of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, top, a Syrian fighter helps a woman outside the palace of justice in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

    Books
    Prosecuting the Powerful by Steve Crawshaw – from the Nuremberg trials to the pursuit of Putin and Assad

  • USA - Music - Rapper Mac Miller Portrait Session<br>Studio City, CA-053113- Rapper Mac Miller. Photo by J. Emilio Flores/CORBIS (Photo by J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Music
    Mac Miller: Balloonerism – poignant second posthumous album

    • An august institution … from left: Barry Burns, Stuart Braithwaite, Martin Bulloch and Dominic Aitchison of Mogwai.

      Music
      Mogwai: The Bad Fire – noise stalwarts’ journey into hell is unexpectedly heavenly

    • Statue of the ancient Greek philosopher SocratesGreece, Athens, June 17 2020 - Statue of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.

      Books
      Open Socrates by Agnes Callard – a design for life

    • Julia Garner, Matilda Firth and Christopher Abbott in Wolf Man

      Film
      Wolf Man – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability

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Pictures & video

  • ‘An imaginary refuge’ … Aminata sleeping, Dakar, Senegal, 2016

    Photography
    Dream states: the Lynchian imagery of Henry Roy – in pictures

    Over a four-decade career, the Franco-Haitian artist has built his own world of contrasts, contradictions and blissful escape
  • Nuanced and compelling … Mona and Beth in the shower, Ward 81, Oregon State hospital, US, 1976.

    Photography
    ‘Women we might have been’: sisters and psychiatric wards – in pictures

  • Three roda polo players on e-wheels on a sports field near Buenos Aires

    Photography
    Off your high horse: Argentina’s new sport of e-wheel polo – in pictures

  • My best shot
    Maria at the beach on a perfect summer day: Carol Allen-Storey’s best photograph

  • Art and design
    Seeing stars: meet the amateur astronomers

  • Photography
    Trumpland: carnival to insurrection

  • Portraits
    ‘I had to transcend my fear’: LGBTQ+ lives – in pictures

  • Photos of the day
    Solar sculpture and winter landscapes

  • Music
    ‘Is it sexual? Or violent?’: the year’s best record sleeve art

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