Ben Jennings on Reform UK and this week’s local elections – cartoon

PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2; UndercodersColourful, counter-cultural and captivating – this rail riding game set in a dystopian Japan is as we...

Evil Empire creatives explain how it is playing to today’s ‘metroidvanias’ and honouring the original’s legacy with much fresh slaying to be doneSince the la...

Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audioboo...

The Runner by Scarlett Thomas; The Madman by Henning Mankell; Everything She Didn’t Say by Jane Casey; The Spy and the Snake by MJ Robotham; Murder at the En...

The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the genius of Alexander PopeMy earliest reading...

Sinister bogland discoveries haunt the intersecting lives of four characters in this meditative, exquisitely written taleAlmost 14% of Ireland is bog: vast s...

The industrial dance duo make music for this summer’s heatwave: filled with dread and jangling with pent-up energyFrom Manchester, via Peterborough and Shang...

Kings Theatre, BrooklynThe queen of Philly soul is in phenomenal form in a saucy and effortlessly virtuosic show celebrating 26 years in musicAt one point du...

From Copland to Gershwin and a new Emily Dickinson-based commission it was America’s evening – but with a surprise Mancunian encoreAnd we’re back. The “world...

A Grammy nom at 17, a US No 1 ... then silence. With new album Oh Yeah? finally out after four years away, the genre-hopping artist explains the trauma and h...

The Celebrity Traitors winner returns with his fun gameshow. Plus: grungy action in French war drama The Sentinels. Here’s what to watch this evening6.05pm,...

In this week’s newsletter: Is Nolan our last superstar director? Every one of his films is an event, clearing the release schedules and selling out cinemasTh...