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Celebrity drama was just as intense!

Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

Hollywood stars sometimes marry each other. Sometimes they marry each other over and over. All of the stars on this list have been married to multiple famous people.

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

After a Halloween feature in which Guardian writers shared their biggest movie nightmares, it’s readers’ turn

Unimaginable suffering has already been inflicted on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war

John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

From classic West End musicals to exciting new work by emerging voices, London's theatre scene is stronger than ever

It’s very hard to get excited about Taylor Swift and her rumoured American footballer love interest, while Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are a snooze, and the less said about Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, the better. Celebrity couples never used to be this dull, writes Jessie Thompson