Culture

‘In girl bands, there’s always one they tear down’

The former Atomic Kitten star on the price of fame, touring with Katie Price, and blasting out her hits in the car

Rachael Healy

Fear and loathing at Frieze

This year’s London art fair was a spectacle insulated from the world outside the tent

Orlando Whitfield

My week with the clean-water warriors

Just Stop Oil activists have moved on to a new campaign: citizen’s arrests of CEOs

Miles Ellingham

Javaad Alipoor transports Elmet to a disused depot

This Bradford city of culture commission based on Fiona Mozley’s novel is part Victorian melodrama part Grand Guignol gore

Clare Brennan

Final Fantasy Tactics is an ambitious, literary video game

This chess-like wargame weaves story and strategy with irresistible poise

Simon Parkin

Yorgos Lanthimos’s conspiracy comedy Bugonia is deranged

Emma Stone is terrific as a kidnapped big pharma boss in a story that is both savage and uncomfortably timely

Wendy Ide

Jonathan C Slaght: ‘I don’t like bears. They’re vindictive’

The wildlife biologist on his surprise hit Owls of the Eastern Ice, why tigers do well under autocrats, and lessons learned from Russia’s untamed spaces

Zadie Smith and Anne Enright: the art of paying attention

In rigorous, curious essays, two novelists examine the way we live now

What to read to understand friendship

Three books that explore the complicated fellowships that shape a life