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Relationships

Why Gen Z has fallen in love with monogamy

Despite the rise of polyamory and dating apps, in a chaotic world, zoomers are increasingly embracing sexual exclusivity

By Arielle Domb

Business

Taste for activism

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen tells Barney Macintyre that he’s seeking investors to buy back his company to protect its baked-in social mission from Trump-leaning shareholders

Interview

The end of The Bear

Ahead of the final season of the era-defining TV show, its star Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks to Megan Nolan about his Broadway debut, and why in order to work, he needs to live a little

Football

Spray tans, shopping and scapegoats

Twenty years ago, a sleepy German town became the site of a notorious World Cup bender. Returning to Baden-Baden, Róisín Lanigan finds signs of England’s excess

For today

A Super El Niño should be treated as a postcard from the future

Climate

Xavier Greenwood

A Super El Niño should be treated as a postcard from the future

Andoni Iraola’s aim should be to stand on the shoulders of Liverpool giants

Football

Paul Hayward

Andoni Iraola’s aim should be to stand on the shoulders of Liverpool giants

BBC Radio Scotland’s great shake-up is a big turn-off

Audio

Jude Rogers

BBC Radio Scotland’s great shake-up is a big turn-off

Olivia Laing: ‘The shame of loneliness is agonising’

Books

Olivia Ovenden

Olivia Laing: ‘The shame of loneliness is agonising’

Interview

The wrong son

The novelist Neil Griffiths has written a bleak personal memoir describing how his battle to live up to the dead brother he never met led to a mental breakdown. Unlike other books about trauma, there is no promise of redemption

Books

William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible

Biography

Rowan Williams

William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible

What I learned growing up on the same estate as Tommy Robinson

Memoir

Colin Grant

What I learned growing up on the same estate as Tommy Robinson

Fiction

Erica Wagner

Ann Patchett’s book of transgressions

Graphic novel

Killian Fox

Graphic novel of the month: Dogs on Dates by Luke Healy

The critics

Garsington’s La traviata – Parisians party like it’s 1939 in a first-class Verdi

Classical

Stephen Pritchard

Garsington’s La traviata – Parisians party like it’s 1939 in a first-class Verdi

Film

Wendy Ide

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Köln 75, Masters of the Universe, Erupcja and Enzo

Barbara Ellen

Russell T Davies’s Tip Toe is a stark state-of-the-nation drama

Theatre

Susannah Clapp

Black Comedy at the Orange Tree – a sharp farce from the little theatre that thinks big

The Observer Walk

Looking for George Michael

On a pilgrimage to the singer’s Highgate home and his beloved Hampstead Heath, lifelong superfan Sathnam Sanghera tells Tim Adams why he should be as revered as Bowie and Prince