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  • ‘Everyone keeps talking about nothing else’ … the 1970s masterpiece, reconstructed and on show in Vienna.

    Design
    ‘That damned kitchen!’ How the inventor of the fitted kitchen came to see it as a curse

    Her splashbacked, single-surfaced, cubbyholed, foldaway paradise revolutionised kitchen design. But Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky grew to regret her world-conquering creation
  • ‘If you band together, you’ll be victorious’ … ALU leader Chris Smalls raises his arms in Union.

    Film
    ‘If we can’t unionise at Amazon, we have no future’: the film about the workers who took on Jeff Bezos and won

    From the rousing leader dismissed for leading a walkout to the activists handing out free burgers, pizza and weed, an inspiring new documentary charts the long, hard fight to create the delivery giant’s first union
    • Hugh Laurie in House

      Stream team
      House at 20: perfectly mad 2000s television that has aged better than you’d think

    • Valentina Magaletti.

      Music
      ‘Drumming is full of machismo, so vulgar, so dumb’: Valentina Magaletti, the musician giving the underground its rhythm

    • Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price in Say Nothing.

      Television
      ‘No Americans putting on bad Belfast accents!’ How Disney drama Say Nothing brings the Troubles to life

    • Jack White in New York this year.

      News
      The White Stripes drop lawsuit against Trump campaign for unauthorised Seven Nation Army use

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News

  • The mother sits with her legs widely sprawled as her baby clings on to her chest. She also has a direct and unsmiling gaze, close -cut hair and a moustache.

    Art and design
    Steph Wilson wins Taylor Wessing photography prize with striking portrait

    National Portrait Gallery announces £15,000-winning portrait that conveys atypical image of motherhood
  • Bearing up … Paddington in Peru.

    Film
    Paddington in Peru records biggest opening weekend in UK for British film since No Time to Die

  • Photocall for the film 'Red One' in London<br>epa11705200 US actor Dwayne Johnson poses during a photocall for the film 'Red One' in Potters Field, London, Britain, 06 November 2024. EPA/TOLGA AKMEN

    Film
    Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson admits to peeing in water bottles on set: ‘Yeah, that happens’

  • Stage
    Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man

  • Film
    Final reckoning? Trailer for Mission: Impossible 8 suggests end to franchise

  • Books
    Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

  • Music
    ‘I was a fool’: Art Garfunkel describes tearful reunion with Paul Simon

  • Film
    Australian actor alleges Rebel Wilson made up a false sexual assault accusation about her

  • Film
    Tony Todd, star of Candyman, dies aged 69

Reviews

  • Andrea Corr performing with the Corrs at Manchester AO Arena.

    Music
    The Corrs – family folk-poppers surprise with grit, grunge and gothic drama

  • Virtuoso display … Stevie Hyper D in action in Hyper: The Stevie Hyper D Story.

    Film
    Hyper: The Stevie Hyper D Story – massively entertaining portrait of legendary MC

    Even those unfamiliar with 90s drum’n’bass will feel invited in and educated by an impeccably crafted account of this charismatic and vibrant pioneer
  • Nigel Farage in Immigration: How British Politics Failed.

    TV
    Immigration: How British Politics Failed – every one of these politicians is unbearable

    From Nigel Farage to Suella Braverman and Tony Blair, the bloviating talking heads in this documentary give a good sense of how immigration policy became polluted by racism
  • Jonathan Coe, novelist, photographed at the Guardian Photo Studios in London. Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s. Jonathan Coe published his first novel, The Accidental Woman, in 1987. In 1994 his fourth novel What a Carve Up! won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was followed by The House of Sleep, which won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Novel award and, in France, the Prix Médicis. As of 2022, Coe has published fourteen novels. Besides novels, Coe has written a biography of the experimental British novelist B. S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, which D. J. Taylor described in Literary Review as "a deeply unconventional biography," won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005. Also in 2005 Penguin published his "collected shorter prose", a volume consisting of only 55 pages, under the title 9th &amp; 13th. The same collection was published in France in 2012 under the title Désaccords imparfaits. He has written a short children's adaptation of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, and a children's story called The Broken Mirror. Both titles are published in Italy only, as La storia di Gulliver (2011) and Lo specchio dei desideri (2012). A handwritten manuscript page from The Rotters' Club was displayed as part of the "Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands" exhibition that ran at the British Library during 2012. Coe was a judge for the Booker Prize in 1996, and has been a jury member at the Venice Film Festival (in 1999, under the chairmanship of Emir Kusturica) and the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2007. In 2012 Coe was invited by Javier Marías to become a duke of the kingdom of Redonda. He chose as his title "Duke of Prunes", after a favourite piece of music by Frank Zappa. Coe read an excerpt of The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim to crowds at the Latitude Festival in July 2009. The central character was to be "a product of the social media boom", and "the sort of person with hundreds of Facebook friends but no one to talk to when his marriage breaks up." Coe's 2019 book Middle England won the European Book Prize and also won the Costa Book Award in the Novel category.

    Books
    The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe – a blue murder mystery

  • Arresting morbidity … Dayo Wong and Michael Hui in The Last Dance.

    Film
    The Last Dance – Chinese funeral business is backdrop for arresting, life-affirming drama

  • Twenty Four Seconds From Now Illo Twenty-Four Seconds From Now: A Regular Love Story by Jason Reynolds

    Children's book reviews round-up
    Young adult books roundup – reviews

  • All a bit a tongue-in-cheek … Elizabeth Hurley in Piper

    Film
    Piper – Elizabeth Hurley dances a merry tune in cheesy rat-based folk horror

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Regulars

  • ‘Everything happened so fast’ … from left, Arrion Love, James Smith, James Dunn, Herb Murrell and Russell Thompkins Jr in 1973.

    How we made
    ‘James Brown kept cutting our stage time’ – how the Stylistics made You Make Me Feel Brand New

    ‘The first time we opened for James Brown, we got 20 minutes on stage. Then when he heard the crowd response, he cut it to 15. By the end of the tour, he’d cut us back to five’
  • Monty Don posing for a portrait in a garden

    On my radar
    On my radar: Monty Don’s cultural highlights

  • Liz Hurley courtesy Debenhams (C)2024 - DAN KENNEDY

    Film
    Elizabeth Hurley: ‘If I were Queen, I’d outlaw air fresheners in cars and ban prison for white-collar criminals’

  • Ranked
    Top of the pips: Fiona Apple’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • My best shot
    Two bondage fans in Cuba: Jean-François Bouchard’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘I was a stuffed shirt, he was an oik’ – Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on making Have I Got News for You

  • Honest playlist
    ‘Last Nite by the Strokes is dead to me’: Julian Casablancas’s honest playlist

Staying in

  • Gena Marvin

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: the powerful story of a defiant Russian artist

  • Emilia Pérez.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Emilia Pérez to Dune: Part Two – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An audacious musical drama about a mob boss’s secret new life as a woman, and Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya’s spectacular fantasy saga
  • Bad Sisters.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Bad Sisters to Say Nothing: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Sharon Horgan’s pitch-black comedy is back, plus a gripping new drama about a mother of 10 abducted in Northern Ireland during the Troubles
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Pictures & video

  • ‘A sense of longing’ … Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s Untitled, 1988.

    Art photography
    Unseen desire: the radical gaze of Rotimi Fani-Kayode – in pictures

    After escaping civil war in Nigeria, the ‘outsider’ photographer moved to the UK to capture Black queer self-expression. A new exhibition explores his legacy
  • A triptych of images from Propagandopolis

    Art and design
    Propaganda: 100 years of fear, manipulation and persuasion – in pictures

  • A driver waits for tractor man Eddy during the Pallamallawa mud trials

    The Guardian picture essay
    Mud in their blood: the wild world of mud bombing

  • Photojournalism
    From war to resilience: World Press Photo’s emerging photographers

  • Punk
    ‘It sounded dreadful – but to me it was the second coming!’: punk rock memories – in pictures

  • My best shot
    Two bondage fans in Cuba

  • Art and design
    Grape expectations! The best of Paris Photo fair – in pictures

  • Art
    Posters from the Montreux jazz festival through the decades – in pictures

  • US
    Sun, surf and the Trump Store: a Florida road trip – in pictures

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  • ‘They were very clear they didn’t care about history’ … Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal in the forthcoming Gladiator II.

    Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths

    As Gladiator II follows Those About to Die in bringing swords and sandals back to the screen, the ‘Colosseum consultant’ who advises all the epic productions about accuracy tells us why he is ‘paid to be ignored’
  • ‘Everything happened so fast’ … from left, Arrion Love, James Smith, James Dunn, Herb Murrell and Russell Thompkins Jr in 1973.

    ‘James Brown kept cutting our stage time’ – how the Stylistics made You Make Me Feel Brand New

  • Vivas Arquitectos’s residential centre for homeless women in Barcelona.

    Architecture
    ‘They look like homes for rich people’: why Britain should look to Europe for its council housing revolution

  • Adam Cooper (The Swan), centre, in Swan Lake by Matthew Bourne @ Sadler's Wells, London. An Adventures In Motion Pictures production. (Opening 14-11-1995) ©Tristram Kenton 11-95 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Stage
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  • Beyoncé campaigns for Kamala Harris at a rally in Houston, Texas.

    Culture
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  • Graphic showing various punk stars in cut outs with ink splattered background.

    Music
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