Culture

Down Cemetery Road – a fresh female take on Slow Horses

Emma Thompson’s foul-mouthed private eye follows hot on the trail of the Apple TV hit in a bold, funny series. Plus, the engrossing tales of Once Upon a Time in Space

Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour: For once, words fail him

After his remarkable memoir Knife, the writer showcases his worst habits in a rambling, uneven short-story collection

What to read to understand friendship

Three books that explore the complicated fellowships that shape a life

Why women keep secrets

The Book of Revelations finds Juliet Nicolson exploring the history and politics of female secrecy

‘In girl bands, there’s always one they tear down’

The former Atomic Kitten star on the price of fame, touring with Katie Price, and blasting out her hits in the car

Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field: a manifesto for how to be human

The epic conclusion to The Book of Dust is an urgent critique of capitalism from a storyteller of exceptional power

The grid: Welcome to Fliffmellington

When artist Paolo Puck had to leave his home, he dreamt up a world of his own

Mariana Enríquez: ‘The fear of the old female body is out of control’

The Argentinian writer on her cemetery obsession, horror’s fixation with ageing, and the novel she tossed on the barbecue

Untold: Toxic Legacy is a devastating investigation

The three-part series by Laura Hughes is like a ghost story where lead haunts British land and homes

The Unbelievers is a swirling study of catastrophe

Nicola Walker is extraordinary in the Nick Payne drama

As the dancing queens take their last tango, has Strictly lost its sparkle?

The shock news raises questions about the future of all Saturday night family formats

The big picture: Sitaram Raul’s bats in flight

The Indian photographer luminously captures the uncanny essence of nature

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Hedda and more

Jeremy Allen White captures some of Springsteen’s electrifying energy in an otherwise inert, uninventive biopic

The dark, wayward works of the Two Roberts

The inseparable Scottish artists and lovers are celebrated in a landmark English show at Charleston

Campus drama Safe Space tackles the statue wars head-on

Jamie Bogyo’s promising but unrefined debut play explores the political climate of the 2016 Yale protests

Lolita Chakrabarti’s cultural highlights

The actor and writer on reconsidering John Lennon and Yoko Ono, a monastic adventure, and the musical that made her cheeks hurt from laughing

Klaus Kinski, misguided messiah

A car-crash fascination drew Benjamin Myers to write a novel about the German actor’s infamous stage show

What to read to understand the information age

From the printing press to the triumph of video: three books on how media revolutions have shaped us