Entertainment » 2 weeks ago
Why did an unloved two-seater become both an art project and a tourist attraction? Photographer Alex Elton-Wall explains allA sofa was dumped in the middle of Lydbrook, a village in Gloucestershire, and every time Alex Elton-Wall walked past it he found himself smiling. W...
Lifestyle » 2 weeks ago
Mercedes-Benz stadium, AtlantaThe record-breaking Grand National tour brings together two stylistically opposed stars and continues an internet-breaking feudJust when it seemed as if Kendrick Lamar had dropped his grudge aga...
Lifestyle » 2 weeks ago
When Bethesda surprise-released a remake last week, I revisited its world with my son to see if the magic was still thereFor a 10-day period the summer of 2006, in between handing in my resignation at my first job on a games magazine and returning to Scotland to start uni...
Lifestyle » 2 weeks ago
Milton Court, LondonThe group were joined by the Elmore, Kyan and Oculus quartets to perform three of Shostakovich’s quartets alongside a newer work by Elena FirsovaA decade ago, marking 40 years since the composer’s death, the ...
Lifestyle » 2 weeks ago
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London The choreographer pairs the semi-improvised score with similarly loose structures that reflect on collective action and identityContemporary choreographers love minimali...
Lifestyle » 2 weeks ago
Perth theatreTwo working-class lads become modern-day highwaymen in this adaptation of the Scottish film but the plentiful songs slow down the storyOne of the stories British cinema loves to tell is of working-class charact...
Lifestyle » 2 weeks ago
The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal lifeIn Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse things in order to “play the part of the fictitious creature called...
Entertainment » 2 weeks ago
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to loveLess than half of parents find it fun to read aloud to their children, new research shows.Only 40% of pare...
Entertainment » 2 weeks ago
Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsEven though it came out only last year, I was so impressed with Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires ...
World » 2 weeks ago
Cyril Ramaphosa sets up inquiry as victims’ families allege interference from ‘highest levels of government’South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is setting up an inquiry into whether past ANC governments interfered with the investigation and prosecution of apartheid...