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Talking points

  • Photo of Franz Kafka on his grave at the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague.

    What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries

  • ‘They’ve got the car, the hat, the T-shirt. The apartment is the natural progression’ … the Aston Martin Residences.

    A 007 paradise – or lads holiday pad?
    Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses

  • two women in glamorous denim outfits

    Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead 2024 Tony nominations

  • Young adult books on display in Foyles bookshop.

    More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows

People

  • Daniel Radcliffe and J K Rowling

    Daniel Radcliffe says rupture with JK Rowling over trans rights is ‘really sad’

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The two rappers have been releasing diss tracks about each other since March

    Kendrick Lamar responds to Drake with diss track Euphoria in escalating feud

    • Ludmilla performing at Coachella 2024.

      ‘I wasn’t worried about what gringos wanted!’ Ludmilla, Brazil’s next pop superstar

    • Lawrence Rothman in black clothing leaning on a black car

      ‘Bowie told me it’s OK to be messy’
      The starry life and strife of singer-songwriter Lawrence Rothman

    • ‘Baldwin discovered the cinema before he discovered books’ … the writer with Marlon Brando (centre) at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, with Charlton Heston (left) and Harry Belafonte (behind).

      ‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

The big picture

  • Young Farmers’ Meeting, Brecon, Wales 1973.

    First class posts: David Hurn’s Instagram highlights – in pictures

    The Magnum photographer’s social media feed combines superb old images with modern reflections – on Brexit, bum thermometers and radical coffee shops

Reviews

  • Johann Hari’s reporting has previously been called into question.

    Magic Pill by Johann Hari
    Weighing in

  • Rupert Street in London's Soho in 1964.

    Books
    The Diaries of Mr Lucas by Hugo Greenhalgh – a kaleidoscope of postwar gay life

    • Sam Taylor

      Fiction
      The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor – a sliding doors tale of survival

    • girl with a laptop

      Books
      This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka – an innocent online

    • woman on a street looking over her shoulder

      Television & radio
      The Veil review – Elisabeth Moss muddles through creaky spy series

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Pictures & video

  • Young Farmers’ Meeting, Brecon, Wales 1973.

    First class posts
    David Hurn’s Instagram highlights – in pictures

    The Magnum photographer’s social media feed combines superb old images with modern reflections – on Brexit, bum thermometers and radical coffee shops
  • Fables reconstructed … Shaolin Monastery, Hunan Province, China 2004.

    Off the wall
    A miraculous Magnum print sale

  • Khanyisa Mtulu and her friend, Azasakhe Manxeba attend the Matric dance in Cape Town January 2018

    Art and design
    Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize at 20

  • Outlaw attitude
    Skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping

  • Greetings from New York
    AIPAD’s The Photography Show

  • Venice Biennale 2024
    A lost astronaut, looted treasure and a hit naked German

  • Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

  • My best shot
    Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra

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