Culture

Face to face with the pharaohs’ tomb artists

The painters and stonemasons of ancient Egypt have been erased from history, but a new exhibition brings them fully to life

Viral success of KPop Demon Hunters poses problem for Netflix

The surprise record-breaking blockbuster has a serious supply and demand issue

‘Drama without humour is bad art’

In Fulham, Brett Goldstein is renovating a house; in Hollywood, a career. For the standup who became a leading man, both are works in progress

The grid: a bird on the brink

Jon Ching’s fantastical paintings of Hawaiian honeycreepers celebrate the last of a dying breed

Britain’s ever-shifting allegiance to Europe

First we wanted in, then we voted ourselves out. Britain’s strained, seesawing history with the European Union is related in Tom McTague’s Between the Waves

Tove Ditlevsen’s beguiling autofiction

Fifty years after its publication, the Danish author’s strange but playful final book, Vilhelm’s Room, receives a spirited English translation

GT Karber: ‘Murdle gives me a sense of purpose’

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

Books in brief: Buckeye, Duet and Lost Wonders

New books by Patrick Ryan, Eleanor Chan and Tom Lathan reviewed

The Long Walk, Downton Abbey and more

The Long Walk, about a brutal annual endurance test in which 50 young men plod across the country, is a dour slog

‘Growing up in a rock star household was absolutely bananas’

The DJ, songwriter and producer says that he lived for the night, but now his family is keeping him grounded

Celebrating Maureen Duffy, a true pioneer

Older women writers are too often overlooked. My new Royal Society of Literature prize aims to change that – starting with Duffy, a literary trailblazer and champion of gay and author rights

Memories of David Bowie

This Radio 6 Music series about the early years of the great pop artist, featuring Kate Moss and Robbie Williams, is full of unheard detail and vivid colour. Plus, Adrian Chiles goes in search of Elgar

What should we make of Mrs Mary Whitehouse?

Maxine Peake stars as the Christian moral crusader in a play that asks us to pass judgment without having the facts straight

The rise of the Scot tub: why saunas are hot property in Scotland

Saunas at Scotland’s scenic spots are becoming the country’s hottest property and giving wild swimmers respite from the frigid North Sea

On my radar: Jung Chang’s cultural highlights

The author of Wild Swans on the beauty of Rome, war books and Tom Cruise’s ‘poetic’ stunts

How the former US embassy became an opulent Mayfair hotel

Eero Saarinen’s mid-century masterpiece shines on the outside, but its new interiors put the gross into Grosvenor Square

How Raymond Briggs found his style

Two rediscovered early works show how the beloved author of The Snowman and Father Christmas perfected his blend of the fantastical and ordinary

Haywire: an entertainingly meta take on The Archers

Plus, the squelchy sounds of rural life in Cow/Deer at the Royal Court