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Books
Tina Brown
Who will care for Harry and Meghan?
Tom Bower’s Betrayal asks whether anyone can save the Sussexes from self-destruction
Books
Giles Whittell
Does ‘Muskism’ mean anything?
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s biography of the world’s richest man asks whether Elon Musk represents anything but himself
Classical
Fiona Maddocks
The sounds of the Sistine Chapel
Classical music’s best and brightest gathered to hear the first concert premiere ever held beneath Michelangelo’s frescoes
Features
Interviews
Erica Wagner
Rebecca Solnit: ‘The runaway car has to hit a wall one of these days’
Interviews
Miranda Sawyer
Kneecap: ‘Nobody actually thinks we’re terrorists. It’s a carnival of distraction’
Features
Francisco Garcia
The search for the missing victims of the Bosnian war
Interviews
Barbara Ellen
Rachel Reid: Why I wrote Heated Rivalry
The critics
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Dance
Sarah Crompton
English National Ballet’s Body & Soul is a game of two halves
An ill-judged work by Kameron N Saunders opens a double bill redeemed in the second section
Theatre
Katherine Cowles
Self Esteem lights up David Hare’s Teeth ‘n’ Smiles
Rebecca Lucy Taylor is fierce and funny in this compulsively entertaining examination of the end of the 1960s dream
TV
Barbara Ellen
Who wants to watch the downfall of Huw Edwards?
Channel 5’s drama about the newsreader’s abuse of power is let down by sensationalism
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Erica Wagner
Jan Morris, the traveller’s guide
The pioneering writer reported from across the globe, wrote openly of her experiences as a trans woman, and was a true companion to her readers
Lynn Barber
Who is the real Alan Bennett?
In Enough Said, the writer muses entertainingly on Trump, Twitter and turning 90 – but never quite lets the reader past his curated public image
‘This was literature as gelignite’
Ahead of the Women’s Prize for nonfiction 2026 shortlist, we asked some of our favourite writers to share the books that shaped their writing lives
