In her defiant portraits, the photographer recasts the narrative around victimhood, giving the women and their relatives the humanity they deserve

The playwright on the ‘extraordinary forgiveness’ behind his play Punch

Four decades ago, David Cope became one of the first to develop a computer programme that could compose music. The industry reacted in horror – can art truly be art if it was created without feeling?

Full of the joys of spring, In Bloom offers an illuminating history of plants in painting

Leaked deposition videos reveal how young ideologues, armed with AI and contempt for expertise, set about dismantling American public services

The Epstein files were meant to bring transparency. Instead they left us sifting through fragments – images, emails, stray recordings – that raise unsettling questions about knowledge, curiosity and the limits of what anyone seemed willing to ask

The Peaky Blinders creator tells how childhood memories and myths of old Birmingham villains inspired a career that now includes a film studio on the site of his dad’s old smithy

Uncovered studio reports reveal Hollywood once rejected Ian Fleming’s books as implausible nonsense. As studios increasingly turn to AI, it’s a useful reminder that nobody, then or now, has the faintest idea of what will be a hit

The chronology of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s demise under the influence of Jeffrey Epstein can be starkly told by these four now infamous photographs

Ahead of the closing date on 28 February, Tim Adams, New Review editor, recalls a writer’s doomed vocation. Here’s how to enter the annual prize

An exhibition marking the milestone captures the playful and transgressive intimacy of life behind the curtain

The novelist on how a false medical alarm inspired the search for answers in his prize-winning book Question 7

The author on challenging our perceptions of true crime, and Ripperologists

The author on his love affair with Lennon and McCartney, and rediscovering his writing mojo

The H is for Hawk author Helen Macdonald walks the Cambridgeshire fields where a goshawk became a spiritual guide

Seventy years of over-the-top shopfronts, snowy yards and roadside curiosities

The creator of the hit murder mystery puzzle on dodging law school, why AI is “the ultimate bullshitter”, and the genesis of his new brainteaser Bordergrams

The author shares the inspiration for his most recent novel, and that he doesn’t like to cook but loves a good party

After 53 years compiling The Observer’s beloved weekly Azed crossword, Jonathan Crowther is going monthly. He tells us about the art of the perfect clue and the community of puzzlers

Sophie Green’s images of the British seaside portray not an island of strangers but of people from different walks of life having fun in the sun