Features

Is it really possible to supercharge your willpower?

The ability to kick bad habits is seen by many as the key to health and happiness. How much can we control it?

Jean Rhys and the art of not belonging

A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books

Harry Potter and the deathly rehash culture

It’s been 30 years and the Potterverse is still expanding. I’m ready to leave it behind

‘Hamlet is hilarious. I think of him as a stand-up’

The Life of Pi star talks growing up in Sri Lanka, living in London and taking on his biggest role yet: Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark

The grid: Edie Medley’s pub-patter pictures

Two pints of lager, a packet of crisps and a nugget of wisdom – the sketches inspired by nights in the pub

’Til ChatGPT do us part: how chatbots are breaking up marriages

AI is being used as a confidante, journal and therapist. But getting up close and personal could be a mistake

The big picture: Stephen Shore’s New York nuns

Heaven knows what these awestruck sisters were thinking on the streets of 1960s New York

Gilbert and George: ‘No artist of our generation did what we did’

Impolite, outlandish and determinedly eccentric, the art world’s ‘inside-outers’ have spent 60 years dividing opinion. They share their collective wisdom on love, politics and mortality

The grid: Amy Friend casts vintage photos in a new light

The Canadian artist takes ‘orphaned’ photographs from the 1920s-40s and makes them sparkle again

On my radar: Oyinkan Braithwaite’s cultural highlights

The British-Nigerian novelist on Little Simz, farm shops and contemplative anime

How a musical generation is rallying behind Palestine

Musicians, activists and attendees at a landmark protest gig unite for a cause that is becoming difficult to ignore

Jack Thorne: ‘You talk to real people who’ve been through hell’

The writer of Adolescence on his new phone-hacking drama, living with disability and why he feels a responsibility to tell stories that matter

The world’s first steam train chugs back to life in Stockton

The first passenger rail journey, from Stockton to Darlington, took place 200 years ago this week. After HS2, it’s a badly needed reminder of what Britain can build

I took my seven-year-old daughter to see Jaws. You should too

‘Daddy Rules’ mean that my children love movies, but many of their peers struggle with long-form narratives

Warren Ellis: ‘I almost got killed by a falling coconut’

Nick Cave’s chief collaborator – and sartorial twin – in the Bad Seeds has found fresh purpose at an Indonesian animal sanctuary

Robert Redford, the magnetic maverick who reshaped Hollywood

The pioneering actor, who has died at the age of 89, was unwaveringly committed to indie movies

The ‘three-sickbag spectacle’ of tech bros at the court of Trump 2.0

Gates, Zuckerberg and more pay homage to their Supreme Leader. Is this the new world order?

The big picture: Helen Levitt’s New York cool

This image by the ‘supreme poet-photographer’ captures a 70s street scene imbued with rough-edged authenticity and easy elegance