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  • The Duchess of Sussex in 2026

    Television
    Meghan reportedly in talks to join Guy Ritchie’s TV series The Gentlemen

    The Duchess of Sussex is said to be discussing a return to acting in the third season of Netflix’s hit crime series
  • David Harbour, bearded, wears a worn leather Red Guardian costume and helmet, looking aside

    Film
    📢 แจ้งเตือน: us/culture - ประเด็นร้อนDavid Harbour has blown Tony Stark’s cover in Avengers: Doomsday. It might just be what Marvel needs

    Ben Child
  • A film director sits beside a big fake shark and in background is a sign that says The Asylum

    Film
    ‘We’re barely above porn’: why would a film-maker choose to make a deliberately bad ‘mockbuster’?

  • Minnie Evans, Untitled (Four Figures Collage), 1961–1967. Oil, crayon, and pencil on paper and canvas

    Art
    ‘She had this divine calling’: the incredible and transporting art of Minnie Evans

  • America’s Next Top Model series four.

    Television
    When TV turns sour: the shows we simply can’t stomach any more

  • Mike D in a saturated psychedelic style

    Music
    Mike D: ‘After Yauch died I couldn’t make music. I’d open a computer file and just feel sadness’

  • The four members of Jawdropped photographed standing around a lamb

    Music
    Add to playlist: the righteous jangle and snaking melodies of Jawdropped and the week’s best new tracks

  • a man and a woman in red tops pose for a photo

    Music
    Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White

  • Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, faces towering armored figures in a misty forest

    Film
    The Odyssey becomes highest grossing R-rated film of all time

Talking points

  • A character in a helmet with mouth wide open, holding up hands with metal claws protruding from the knuckles, surrounded by flames

    Games
    Marvel’s Wolverine: Spider-Man developers turn to a more cutthroat character

  • Firefighters in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after Russian drones struck a book warehouse on 1 August.

    Books
    Ukrainian publishers call for support after Russian attacks destroy 10m books

  • Two men on stage

    Music
    ‘It was a damn unicorn’: the pioneering, divisive power of Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40

  • Broadstairs beach and bay, with colorful beach huts lining the curving sandy shore

    Books
    ‘All the watering places are crammed with hot people’: on holiday with Dickens

People

  • Pedro wearing sunglasses, standing by a cactus, in front of an orange wall

    Film
    ‘It is the riskiest film I’ve ever made’: Pedro Almodóvar on being the villain in his own movie

  • Four middle-aged men pose for a portrait against a gold background

    Music
    ‘I need to think like a CEO’: Weezer on the shifting sands of success, ugly feelings and the joy of spreadsheets

  • A black and white image of a woman dressed in black with long dark hair, and her arms folded

    Music
    Amy Lee of Evanescence: ‘I could happily do an entire album of nothing but Portishead covers’

  • The musician Beck sitting in an opulent lamp-lit lounge

    Music
    Post your questions for Beck

The big picture

  • Sayuri Ichida's image of her sister

    Art
    Blizzards, nuclear anxiety and a fragile bond: two sisters in Japan – in pictures

    Sayuri Ichida and her sister used to be distant – until their mother died. This exhibition traces their close relationship through sun, wind and snow
    Gallery12

Reviews

  • Old Snake, an older man with a headband and eyepatch, points a gun.

    Games
    Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2 – once more unto the mercenary breach

  • Musician Stella Lefty wearing a grey vest stands with her hands in the back pockets of her jeans looking at the camera

    Music
    Stella Lefty: Long Way Home – Boston singer’s debut is bland, boilerplate and beyond banal

  • Anthony Hopkins in the recording hall with conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

    Music
    Anthony Hopkins: Life Is a Dream album – easy on the ear melodies written from the heart

  • Rachel Cusk.

    Books
    Life of M by Rachel Cusk – is this story of a film star based on Natalie Portman?

Pictures & video

  • A young civil rights marcher with "VOTE" painted on his forehead, a person carrying an American flag behind him

    Art
    ‘Jim Crow must go’: the artists and everyday heroes who fought injustice – in pictures

    Gallery11
  • Wendy McMurdo, The Somnambulist, 1995 © Wendy McMurdo. All rights reserved, DACS 2026. Courtesy Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow

    Art
    The digital child: how tech is changing play – in pictures

    Gallery11
  • Hayden Panettiere

    Hayden Panettiere – a life in pictures

    Gallery19
  • Hands reach upward through a crowd toward a decorated bread loaf held above a group

    Sailors, shadows and a dog in a dress: heroes of the street – in pictures

    Gallery13

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