The screen and stage star’s unpredictability has made him one of Hollywood’s greatest character actors – and a famously tricky interviewee. On the eve of his London stage debut in a David Mamet play, he opens up and discusses depression, alcoholism and his years of penury

Wood’s new book tells how novels gave him the freedom to think when he was growing up. Has he become an evangelist for literature?

Thirty years after they were first staged, two of the great German choreographer’s shows are getting a UK premiere. Expect mud, sweat, tears and giant cactuses

World No1 wins final 7-6, 4-6, 6-0Now has beaten Scot seven times in a row

Scottish leaders’ debate: Sturgeon accused of financial ‘black hole’Farage predicts he will win South Thanet seatFresh polling finds Ukip falling behind in marginal seatsLabour leader rejects claim old Balls interview undermines non-dom pledgeVideo shows Balls saying scrapping non-doms would ‘cost Britain money’

Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls. Has Putin’s Russia developed a new kind of information warfare – fought in the ‘psychosphere’ rather than on the battlefield? Or is it all just a giant bluff• Read it in Russian/Читайте эту статью на русском: Кремлёвские зазеркальные…