‘Experimental, queer and kind of magical’: Sade and Sam Smith feature on 46-track album for trans rights
Film
Can DC really pull off a Sgt Rock movie with Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on board?
Art and design
$5.2m for a duct-taped banana: has the buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork slipped up?
Books
Microsoft launches imprint that aims to be faster than traditional book publishing
People
Books
Tracy Chevalier: ‘Woolf’s The Waves will be like medicine – I won’t like it, but it will do me good’
Music
Katy Perry wins appeal in trademark legal case against Sydney fashion label Katie Perry
Film
‘We create gods because the world is chaos’: Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci on celebrity, sin and papal thriller Conclave
Television
Illinois court overturns conviction of former Empire star Jussie Smollett
Film
Daisy Ridley: ‘I made a toilet cake on Bake Off because flushing with the lid up is unhygienic beyond belief’
The big picture
Going for gold: the best of Africa Foto Fair – in pictures
From the niqab reimagined as a luxury brand good to the plights of female boxers in Lagos, this year’s festival mixes politics with panache
Reviews
Stage
Death Becomes Her – 90s comedy gets dazzling Broadway rebirth
Music
Poppy Ajudha: Poppy – frank lyrics elevate soulful, funky love songs
Books
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley – folk horror spans the centuries
Music
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana – modern life is still rubbish, yet still beautifully essayed
Television
Cruel Intentions – this generic remake of the 90s classic is utterly mindless
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Pictures & video
The Guardian picture essay
A life of hard work on the hills of a Welsh valley
Photographic reportage exploring the traditions, life and history of upland farmers in Wales, and the modern forces that threaten their generational way of life
Photography
Going for gold: the best of Africa Foto Fair – in pictures
Robert Frank
‘It changed 20th-century art’: revisiting Robert Frank’s The Americans – in pictures
My best shot
A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph
Hong Kong
Noodles, AI skyscraping and survival: inside Kowloon Walled City – in pictures
Photography
Snowstorms, steel and a celebrity deer: Gregory Halpern goes home – in pictures
Stage
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet – in pictures
Awards
It’s a sitter! Taylor Wessing photo portrait prize winners – in pictures
Art photography
Unseen desire: the radical gaze of Rotimi Fani-Kayode – in pictures
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