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The critics
Books
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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King on queerness and Taiwan’s future
The Taiwan Travelogue author and translator explain why ‘you can’t sever literature from politics’
The working-class genius of Agnes Owens
The Scottish author’s darkly comic novels – written between shifts as a typist and cleaner – are being rediscovered 100 years after her birth
Rowan Williams makes the case for solidarity
In a world of exile and estrangement, the theologian argues we must forge closer ties, before it’s too late
Film
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At Cannes this year, fractured families are everywhere
Trouble begins at home for the Palme d’Or frontrunners
Wendy Ide’s picks of the week: Normal, Obsession, Orphan and more
Ben Wheatley and Bob Odenkirk join forces on this gory, wildly excessive shoot-’em-up set in a cosy Minnesota community
How a love-starved childhood inspired David Lean, cinema’s great romantic
A new documentary highlights the brutal relationship with his father that shaped the director’s life and work
Theatre and dance
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: laughing at provocation
Alexandra Wood reimagines Hilary Mantel’s controversial tale as a ludicrous, playfully subversive two-hander
What King Lear tells us about assisted dying
We’ve grappled with the question of whether we should be allowed to end our own lives for centuries. Does Shakespeare’s tragedy settle the debate?
Mass is a finely wrought study of forgiveness
Following James Graham’s Punch, this precision staging of Fran Kranz’s school-shooter drama captures the pain and power of restorative justice
