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A new book of photographs memorialises the excitement, humour, intimacy – and lurking peril – on the streets in San Francisco and New York where the gay community thrived

The Arsenal and England footballer on her MBE, her terrible singing voice – and the best and worst year of her life

I PAUSE reading this book and hear a voice in my head with a Kelvinside accent saying: “A half an hour

The writer on the long gestation of Locks – his debut novel set in 90s Merseyside – his work in prisons and what Virginia Woolf has taught him

The novelist on inheriting her mother’s ferocity, gun violence in the US and the attack on her husband, Salman Rushdie, last year

What we eat defines us as a nation but it also crosses borders and, like Esperanto, helps us communicate globally

What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all

Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended their first Trooping the Colour together in 2018, but are not at this year’s celebration

Barbara Kingsolver took home the prestigious award this week for her novel ‘Demon Copperhead’. With women accounting for nearly 80 per cent of book sales across the UK and North America, hasn’t the Women’s Prize already served its purpose? Yes, writes Claire Allfree... but there’s more to it