Arts

Teen pop stars Lorde, Birdy and Nina Nesbitt are succeeding on their own terms without any of the antics of Miley Cyrus

Ross Noble shuns sat-nav as he travels around the UK on a motorbike — instead he’s guided by suggestions from Twitter

Tom Hanks takes on the Somali pirates in Captain Phillips and James Gandolfini takes the romantic lead in Enough Said

Women need to be able to laugh at their vulnerabilities to be regarded as men’s equals says Helen Fielding, the author of Bridget Jones

Is he just a German intellectual who mucks up the show? Or someone who can add depth to a sensual piece of art?

The man who’ll succeed Sir Nicholas Hytner as artistic director is a bold choice, but is he nervous? You bet he is!

The Booker winner on the pleasures and horrors of life at 80 – and why she’d buy ‘that one-way ticket to Switzerland’

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We went to the Cheltenham Literature Festival to uncover the literary secrets of its stars, from authors to to A-listers

A new exhibition at the Barbican reveals how consumerism helped to put the colour back into postwar austerity Britain

On the composer’s 200th birthday, Plácido Domingo, Bryn Terfel and others recall their greatest Giuseppe Verdi moments

As he approaches his 80th year, Andrew Sinclair is enjoying a renaissance with a tour of his film of Under Milk Wood

Music

Why it’s not easy being Ben Taylor

Going into the music business was never going to be straightforward for the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, says Ed Potton
Music

Richard Branson: sharpest hippie in the room

As he boldly goes in search of the biggest challenge — space — the businessman remembers his first love — music
Magazine

Is Hanif Kureishi going soft?

He was inspired to write by racism and is famous for his ‘hard-edged’ style. But now he’s produced a romance. Sathnam Sanghera meets his hero
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reunited

The Mexican artists were twice husband and wife – photographer Wallace Marly captures them here in 1944, during their second marriage
Visual Arts

Why it’s back to the future for Chinese art

The V&A’s ambitious autumn exhibition attempts to unveil the variety of China’s unique and overlooked heritage