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With the search for the country’s first town of culture under way, Guardian writers pick their favourite spots for art, architecture, food, festivals, music and celeb spotting

She swept all before her at the Booker prize ceremony, but I’m running out of patience with celebrity influence in publishing, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Heatwave and an invitation to name storms created record-breaking opportunities to indulge nation’s favourite pastime

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country’s most admired young writers

The follow-up to On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a tale of precarity and connection in smalltown Connecticut

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑up

Lipa’s voice is resonant and fit and she holds her own as a dancer; while there are lulls in energy between the show’s acts, they’re forgiven when she brings the hits