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Arts

  • William Boyd on his friend Martin Amis
    He was ferociously intelligent – and very funny

  • ‘It was fun until it wasn’t’
    Hip-hop A&R Dante Ross on De La Soul, ODB – and punchups with P Diddy

    Hailed as the genre’s Forrest Gump for his time with artists from Busta Rhymes to Santana, today Ross contends that streaming, sampling and materialism have changed the genre beyond recognition

  • Cannes 2023
    Firebrand – Jude Law’s obese and oozy Henry VIII rules supreme in Catherine Parr drama

    The ailing king’s misogyny is compellingly disturbing but Alicia Vikander is underused as his final wife

Talking points

  • ‘I want to express rage’
    Ukrainian punks Death Pill take fury on tour

    • The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s Architecture Biennale spotlights Africa

    • Speak now: why pop stars must do more to defend LGBTQ+ fans

      Jeffrey Ingold

    • Forget Jurassic Park: inside the gorgeous David Attenborough series that’s redefining dinosaurs

People

  • Cannes 2023
    Sean Penn says failing to resist rise in AI screenwriting is a ‘human obscenity’

    At Cannes film festival, the actor expressed his solidarity with the striking Writers Guild of America

  • ‘Only God can say – That’s enough’: Wanda Sykes, the uncancellable standup superstar

    She ditched life as a government agent to become a comedian, one so fearless she even has a ‘tampon lasso’. The comic legend discusses cancelled men, coming out – and calling out Roseanne

    • Helmut Berger, star of Visconti’s The Damned, dies aged 78

    • ‘Taking their clothes off was a metaphor’: The Full Monty creators on the return of their Sheffield strippers

    • Andy Rourke, bassist for the Smiths, dies aged 59

The big picture

  • Andy Rourke of the Smiths: his life in pictures

     
    The bassist whose melodic lines chimed with Johnny Marr’s guitar in the landmark indie band has died. We look back at moments in his life on stage and off

Reviews

  • Books
    Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer – beauty and the beast

    Is it OK to love the art of a morally repugnant artist?

  • Music
    Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark – country provocateur holds too much back on faltering fourth album

    There are some gorgeous songs here, and some inventive arrangements, but the wit and honesty of her previous work seems diminished

    • Television & radio
      Muted – so bad you’ll want to howl at your TV screen

    • Music
      Blur: The Narcissist – a band finally at ease with themselves

    • Books
      Anam by André Dao – decades-spanning family epic probes the difficulties of memory

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Pictures & video

  • The big picture
    Bud Lee captures the 1967 Newark riots

    The American photographer’s stark images of the clashes in New Jersey and their aftermath kicked off a nationwide debate about police violence

  • The water’s lovely
    Art that celebrates bathing – in pictures

     

  • Andy Rourke
    His life in pictures

     

    • The 1967 Newark riots
      Where there is oppression, there is resistance

       

    • Take it to church
      Inside a dwindling service

       

    • ‘What do we need to feel safe?’
      Lives affected by homelessness

       

    • Shore thing
      The unique landscape of Lake Erie

       

    • Wayne McGregor’s UniVerse
      A Dark Crystal Odyssey

       

    • Human skulls and grass bums
      Pioneering female photographers

       
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