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From sci-fi epics to investigate deep-dives, the Guide readers have their say on the year’s finest culture

The first episode of the TV adaptation of Mr Loverman is preceded by the quotation: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Those words, voiced by protagonist Barry, belong to writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, from his 1962…

Rare depiction of love between two elderly black men stirs emotions and realisations among its audience

Lennie James and Sharon D Clarke are exquisite in this bold, spiky tale of a gay man who starts to regret living a lie. The awards are sure to flood in

Lennie James is as good as he’s ever been as the dapper, mercurial Barry in this new adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel

Lennie James and Sharon D Clarke star in the eight-part BBC series. Here's how you can watch Mr Loverman online.

Ahead of a BBC adaptation of her novel, the Booker-winning author reflects on failure, creative alchemy – and being consumed by her closeted seventysomething hero

The author of ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, who won the top literary prize in 2019, talks to Annabel Nugent about the moment in her career that made the world take notice, why she is channelling rage into energy, and her novel ‘Mr Loverman’ being adapted for the BBC

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