Two middle-aged couples agree to live with each other other in a rambling rural pile in this nuanced social satire

The Chinese photographer’s image reveals China’s service workers alone together at lunch

The actress and playwright chooses her cultural highlights, including a visceral Robert Aramayo performance, interactive art and nostalgic tea

Rania Matar’s photograph of a Lebanese woman is revealing due to what it keeps hidden

Kirsten Campbell on the inspiration for her winning entry in the Rachel Cooke prize

The South Korean photographer’s shot of a culinary success is a marvel of ordinary, imperfect family life

The actor chooses his cultural highlights, including Adam Curtis’s Shifty, a book on Abraham Lincoln and a satirical film about the prince of Egypt

The photographer from the Isle of Sheppey captures her grandparents’ contentment the morning after a party

The author on exploring Ireland’s criminal underbelly in his debut novel All Them Dogs

Two women erupt in glee in this image by an unknown photographer – but what exactly are they laughing at?

The choreographer chooses his cultural highlights, including Pina Bausch’s Sweet Mambo, Nick Cave’s ‘intriguing’ music and the connections between trees

The ‘Joe Rogan for progressives’ talks politics to his three million online followers for seven hours a day. He explains why

The author of Days of the Bagnold Summer returns with a delightful odd-couple story about two women bringing the past to life

A portrait of an alternative community, with a radio station and Bob Marley for a neighbour

Irish artist Rhiannon Adam confronts broken dreams of space travel in a photograph that subverts the view of an all-American male discipline

The Derry Girls writer chooses her cultural highlights, including a brave memoir, a Conor McPherson play and an ‘off-centre’ podcast

The American photographer’s image from the backstage area of a circus in Belarus is fabulously uncanny

The director on the ‘shock therapy’ of his latest movie, Sirāt, why he is drawn to Morocco, and wanting actors to ‘jump to the abyss’ with him

The singer-songwriter’s cultural highlights, including West End Girl, going ‘all in’ on Bugonia, and the ‘Wall Street of the South’

Keerthana Kunnath’s photograph of a female bodybuilder shows strength in the face of conservative norms