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From mayoral meetings with Lily Allen to bathroom trips with Leonardo DiCaprio, Boris Johnson has had his fair share of odd celebrity run-ins. Claudia Cockerell on the strangest ones to grace the pages of Unleashed, his new book

After an English academic at Oxford complained about students’ attention spans, we get experts’ tips on enjoying the written word

From Himmler to herring, a Swedish journalist offers unexpected angles on the 70s supergroup

Alfonso Cuarón’s new drama about a wife whose secrets are exposed looks beautiful. Sadly, it’s also slow, turgid and – despite stars like Kevin Kline – so bad it needs to be pureed into mush

This insipid, humourless adaptation of CJ Skuse’s blackly comic Sweetpea books has been stripped of everything good. It seems to drag on forever

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter winner Arundhati Roy

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award

The Duchess of Sussex was spotted last year with a blue sticker on her wrist. Will Hosie talks to the man who sold it to her

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.