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The Story: The 65 Best Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century, from ‘Melancholia’ and ‘M3GAN’ to ‘Asteroid City’

The Writer: Wilson Chapman

(photo composite: Everett Collection)

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The Story: I traded Spotify with an MP3 player for a week. Life outside the algorithm was rough

The Writer: Lauren Gold

(composite art by Tracy Allison for The Guardian)

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‘An open letter to the nation’: National Gallery of Art reckons with America at 250

An exhibition of almost 100 artists, from Gordon Parks to Roy Lichtenstein, positions the US as ‘a living idea that’s shaped by many voices’

The Story: ‘An open letter to the nation’: National Gallery of Art reckons with America at 250

The Writer: David Smith

(top painting: Fritz Scholder – Bicentennial Indian, 1975; bottom painting: Roy Lichtenstein – I Love Liberty, 1982)

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‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists sick of the pressure to promote on social media

From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and

The Story: ‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists sick of the pressure to promote on social media

The Writer: Daniel Dylan Wray

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The Story: We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

The Writer: Garrett M. Graff

(illustration: craiyon.com)

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The Story: Jimmy Kimmel says silencing comedians is ‘anti-American’, as his show returns to air after suspension

The Writers: Adrian Horton and Anna Betts

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The Story: Diving swimmers to meteor showers: 12 of the most striking images of 2025 so far

The Writer: Kelly Grovier

(photos, from top: Chinese swimmer Tianchen Lan by Maddie Meyer, monks praying beneath the vast golden dome of Wat Phra Dhammaka by Guillaume Payen, activist from the direct-action campaign group Fossil Free London covering her eyes in an unctuous, oil-like substance by Leon Neal)

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The Story: Surfing culture makes Sheboygan the ‘Malibu of the Midwest.’

The Writer: Joe Schulz

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The Story: My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

The Writer: Andrew Lloyd

(photo illustration: Serenity Strull)

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The Story: 'He was a violent socialist': How Superman started out as a radical rebel

The Writer: Nicholas Barber

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The Story: 'Vietnam was insane, Apocalypse Now only slightly less so': The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history

The Writer: Daniel Dylan Wray

(photo of Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now via Alamy)

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The Story: I'm Sorry…This New Artist Completely Sucks

The Writer: Rick Beato

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The Story: Turn the parody up to 11: the best spoof movies – ranked!

The Writer: Peter Bradshaw

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The Story: Paul Natkin, concert photographer

The Writer: Jamie Ludwig

(photos: above – Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads at the Rosemont Horizon on January 24, 1982, and Atlas Genius at House of Blues Chicago on March 5, 2013; below – Miles Davis at Park West on February 6, 1983; all by Paul Natkin)

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The Story: Last man standing: what Cormac McCarthy made of my adaptation of The Road

The Writer: Joe Penhall

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The Story: Bach – A Beginner's Guide

The Writer: The Classic Review

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The Story: One Big Guitar: True Believers once again

The Writer: Tim Stegall

(photo of True Believers live at GrulkeFest, Sept. 8, 2012 by Theresa DiMenno)