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  • Eminem

    Music
    Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) – guess who’s back, with less bite than ever

  • Seth Meyers to Democrats: ‘There’s still time to turn things around but Democrats need to choose a path now and start the work of righting the ship.’

    Television
    Seth Meyers: ‘Democrats need to choose a path now’

  • Katy Perry.

    Music
    Katy Perry: Woman’s World – what regressive, warmed-over hell is this?

    Perry’s solo return is a dated attempt at writing a feminist anthem about how women really can have it all! It’s a song that made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it
  • Natalie Portman in Lady in the Lake.

    Television
    Natalie Portman on love, divorce and Paul Mescal: ‘I’m very in awe of his talent’

  • Judi Dench.

    Books
    Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench – a class act

  • Woody Allen and Shelley Duvall in Annie Hall.

    Film
    ‘A magical being’: Shelley Duvall remembered by Woody Allen, Daryl Hannah and Michael Palin

  • Remi Wolf

    Music
    Remi Wolf: Big Ideas – slight but vibrant genre-agnostic pop

Talking points

  • Titane, a 2021 body-horror film by Julia Ducournau.

    Books
    Stalk, slice, bludgeon: how ‘femgore’ is reinventing horror fiction

  • Gustavo Santaolalla.

    Games
    The Last of Us has three main characters: Ellie, Joel and Gustavo Santaolalla’s music

  • FILE - Actor George Clooney speaks to the media following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Feb. 23, 2009. Movie star and lifelong Democrat George Clooney is adding his voice to calls for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race. Clooney says in a New York Times opinion piece Wednesday that he loves Biden, but the party would lose the presidential race as well as any control in Congress with him as the nominee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Culture
    Will Biden’s loss of celebrity support make a real difference?

  • Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton, Victor Alli as John Stirling and Masali Baduza as Michaela Stirling in Bridgerton

    Television
    ‘Sorry, we don’t want lesbians’: Bridgerton’s problem with racism, homophobia and body-shaming

People

  • Griff.

    Music
    ‘I hate the idea of playing music to people’: Griff on shyness, stardom and supporting Taylor Swift

  • Laura Marling relaxing on a sofa with the top of her daughter's head just visible beside her.

    ‘Will I just disappear?’ Laura Marling on the ecstasy of motherhood – and why she might quit music

    • Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Carsten Rehder/EPA/Shutterstock (8180184a) Thomas Hoepker Photographer and President of the Agency 'Magnum Photos' Sits Next to One of His Most Famous Pictures Showing Boxer Muhammad Ali in Hamburg Germany Wednesday 10 January 2007 the Museum Fuer Kunst Und Gewerbe (museum For Arts and Crafts) Presents 230 Examples of Hoepker's Work Spanning a Period of Five Decades (1955-2005) Until 18 March 2007 Hoepker is Among the Most Internationally Celebrated German Photographers and Refers to Himself As a 'Picture Maker' Rather Than an Artist Germany Hamburg Germany Hoepker - Jan 2007

      Art and design
      Thomas Hoepker, renowned German photographer, dies at 88

    • FILE - Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

      Film
      Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

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    • Riz Ahmed in Dammi

      Film
      ‘Identity is more unstable than ever’: Riz Ahmed on new short film Dammi

The big picture

  • New York 1946

    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives – in pictures

    He would take candid snaps on the New York subway while pretending to adjust his camera. Now, a new monograph aims to bring the photographer’s work to a wider audience

Reviews

  • Giddy … Clairo.

    Music
    Clairo: Charm – deeply human songs of desire and distance

  • Long Island Compromise

    Books
    Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner – trials of the wealthy

    • Black man sitting at table looks down as Black woman looks at him

      Film
      Divorce in the Black – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date

    • A scene from Exploding Kittens, picturing Marv, Godcat, Greta, Abbie and Kenny.

      Television
      Exploding Kittens – unfunny, infuriating and life-sapping

    • Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!

      Stage
      Oh, Mary! – Cole Escola’s gloriously deranged historical romp

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Pictures & video

  • Men in red military uniform and a goat stand to attention

    Photos of the day
    Desert blooms, Romanian blouses and Mr Afghanistan

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • New York 1946

    Art and design
    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Photography
    Latin American Foto festival

  • Photography
    On the road with a 1960s biker gang

  • Art and design
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • Royal Shakespeare Company
    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

  • NHS
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: hospital workers take a breather

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury

  • Drag
    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’ Drag artists with Down’s Syndrome

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