Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review – a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
Lady Gaga and David Gest are among those who get ferocious dressings-down in this brutally candid memoir
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era
Jack White: ‘I’m not going to put a painful thing out there for some idiot on the internet to stomp all over’
As a new book of his lyrics, poems and selected musings is published, the White Stripes’ singer, songwriter and general guitar hero reflects on poetry, politics and why writing a song is like reupholstering a chair
‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music
Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley
Dirty Business to Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir: the week in rave reviews
A damning fact-based drama about a UK water pollution scandal, and the French survivor of rape tells her harrowing story. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
The Secret Agent to Mitski: the week in rave reviews
A brilliant mystery drama about politics and corruption in 70s Brazil, and a wonderful wallow in misery from the US musician. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long
Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance
From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!
As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop
Wuthering Heights review – too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night
Emerald Fennell’s take on Emily Brontë is an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire that misuses Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi but makes the most of Martin Clunes
‘One of the most stunning sights in the country’: your picks for UK town of culture
From pirates and skateboarders in Hastings to legends and locks in Devizes, from dolphins in Scarborough to the ‘artists’ town’ of Kirkcudbright, readers put forward their favourite places
Beijing condemns Dalai Lama’s Grammy win as ‘anti-China political manipulation’
Buddhist spiritual leader wins best audiobook and says he sees win ‘as a recognition of our shared universal responsibility’
Primate to Tyler Ballgame: the week in rave reviews
Johannes Roberts directs a concise chimp-gone-wild shocker, and the critically loved crooner releases his debut album. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod review – the making of a modern saint
An exhilarating account of Bowie’s spirituality and the quasi-religious nature of his work, from Space Oddity to Blackstar
‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished
‘The rise of fascism makes our work even more important’: Montez Press, champions of queer, feminist art
They published a raunchy book inspired by the Guardian’s Owen Jones; broadcast interviews with obscure punk legends; and make calendars to navigate the world of underground art. Now they’re going global