‘I was worried about cultural appropriation, but people have the right to write about whatever they want’

Fiery De Zerbi may be a big risk

The Stranger: clever homage to mid-20th-century crisis of meaning

‘We have kept day-to-day diaries since the day we met’

‘People were looking at the world in a more intelligent way, asking how things worked and why’

AIDS memorial gets green light

Who will win in licence reforms?

Underland: cinematic work of art that digs beneath Earth’s skin has depth in spades

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four illustrates where we are living now in Europe and the US’

Top books at your service

Project Hail Mary: space thriller with a mission is wonderfully watchable

The playwright and the blonde bombshell: ‘They were genuinely in love’

Rock Against Racism – how protest and music became the concept of a generation

All-night bid at old cinema

‘She was manipulated by an algorithm and it pushed her to her death’

Molly vs The Machines probes ‘Wild West Web’ culture

Towner prized: out-of-towner artist who found fresh inspiration in Hampstead

Man on the Run: absorbing documentary feels very true to the down-to-earth Beatle

Cultural exchange: how Hawaiian treasures came to Bloomsbury

After eight months of pain, who’s next in the Spurs hotseat?