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Arts
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In a devastating new documentary, a history of lynching is tied to the mysterious death of a black teen, who was found hanging from a swing in 2014 -
Bold and ambitious, this wildly inventive novel blurred genre boundaries in six interlinked stories. The author reveals his inspirations
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As her novel Wolf Hall is named the best of the century so far, the author looks back on the ‘long walk’ she has taken with Thomas Cromwell -
The American south may seem a long way from the estates of England, but in both places a veil of caprice covers harsh truths -
Late-night hosts broke down the whistleblower complaint against Trump and Justin Trudeau’s blackface revelations
Talking points
People
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With 2.4m Instagram followers, a $14.8m sale and brawls for his T-shirts in Uniqlo, is the artist dismissed as ‘conceptually bankrupt’ more than just a pop culture craze? -
A period movie with a twist, The Last Tree is the coming-of-age story of a boy struggling to find his identity in both the English countryside in which he’s raised and the Nigerian shantytown of his birth -
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The big picture
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Arcade Fire released their classic album Funeral 15 years ago this month. These photos, unpublished until now, were taken by Anton Corbijn just as the band broke through
Reviews
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3 out of 5 stars.
Film Between Two Ferns: The Movie review – ramshackle cameo comedy
3 out of 5 stars.Zach Galifianakis’s abrasive celebrity talkshow gets transformed into a featherweight, intermittently funny, full-length feature for Netflix -
4 out of 5 stars.
Television & radio Criminal – like Line of Duty at its intense, interrogatory best
4 out of 5 stars.David Tennant gives his finest performance as a doctor suspected of murder in this fresh, thrilling crime drama set inside the interrogation room -
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4 out of 5 stars.
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1 out of 5 stars.
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4 out of 5 stars.
Film Ad Astra – Brad Pitt on a thrilling Freudian space odyssey
4 out of 5 stars.
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Pictures & video
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This week in our Guardian Print Shop series we have an image shot by Murdo MacLeod of swans gathered in the evening light
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