The British novelist on rereading the classics, his teenage love of outsiders, and discovering the brilliance of Anita BrooknerMy earliest reading memory I remember reading Roald Dahl and Diana Wynne Jones and, in particular, I remember my parents leaving all the volumes of CS Lewis’s Narnia series on my bed. But what came before that? I must have had...

The annual showcase of the best in photography features an unprecedented number of women working across all genres – from impressive up and comers to establishment names such as Nan Goldin and Sarah Moon• Photo London is at Somerset House, London, to 19 May Continue reading...

Ruth Paxton’s psychological horror is a gut-wrencher, and Leonardo DiCaprio invades your dreams in the Christopher Nolan gobsmacker. You’ve not lived until you’ve seen a Paris arrondissement fold in on itself …One night at a party, teenager Betsey (Jessica Alexander) walks into the woods and walks out a changed person. She stops eating and shows all...

Cannes film festival The choreography is impressive as people are hurled through walls, thrown off rooftops and otherwise beaten to a pulp, but the editing is frenetic and the characters cartoonishHong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City – once the most densely populated place on Earth – is the perfect movie setting: a Piranesian labyrinth of squalid high rises...

What seemed like another lazy nostalgia cash grab became a favorite, with lessons that Marvel’s universe could learn fromIt should have been what Magneto refers to as a “nostalgic parlor trick” – reviving the X-Men cartoon that aired on Saturday mornings throughout much of the 90s for the Disney+ streaming service. Isn’t this what all streaming services...

(Verve) Mercurial and moody soundscapes are infused with wistful romance in one of the Grammy-winning singer and composer’s most spirited records to date Few singers can match the delicate warmth and quiet power of Arooj Aftab’s voice. Over the past decade, the Pakistani-American singer has released four albums that showcase her gossamer cadence in...