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On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

‘I am the witness and the subject’: Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg on telling his own story

Now 70, the revered photographer, known for documentary projects such as Raised By Wolves, has turned the focus on himself with a photobook chronicling his own journey via birth, love, death…

The big picture: the otherworldly scenes of the great Deborah Turbeville

The renowned fashion photographer creates a mood of ‘haunted neoclassicism’ in this image shot near Paris in the 80s

On my radar: Oneohtrix Point Never’s cultural highlights

The experimental musician and producer on a mind-blowing Guatemalan cellist, the joys of ‘smear frames’ in old-school animated films and his favourite brand of vegan caviar

‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes

A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything from factories to shrines in stunning black-and-white images

‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict

The esteemed photographer has spent more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book

Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government

Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted over

‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods

Original drawings and paintings from 60s and 70s comics such as Hotspur and Commando will feature in an exhibition in Oxfordshire

The Coco Chanel exhibition had me weak at the knees, but the woman remains an enigma

The fashion designer celebrated at the V&A had an extraordinary talent for reinvention and even those who knew her struggled to convey her essence

‘The most fun!’ Paul Simon unveils collaboration with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse illustrator

Charlie Mackesy created his new drawings while listening to Simon’s music, the pair explain at the exhibition launch, with Simon outlining how the Covid-19 pandemic helped his creativity

Big Panda author using proceeds to set up animal sanctuary in Swansea

Exclusive: James Norbury says he is fulfilling pledge made after his debut book landed him a six-figure deal

Agatha Christie statue takes seat on bench in Oxfordshire town

Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 years

Adam Nathaniel Furman: ‘I like the senses to be tickled’

The British artist and designer, whose work spans Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and a Bristol underpass, is redefining public spaces with an outsider’s eye for the monumental and an emphasis on craft and delight

From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters

The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age. But how do you find the good stuff? We pick some of the best by theme

On my radar: Naomi Klein’s cultural highlights

The Canadian author and activist on the self-deprecating comedy of Mae Martin, a mind-altering memoir, and the singer she drove miles to see live

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  • Lee Child backs launch of reading scheme to send prisons half a million books
  • The Country Schoolmaster by Kate Grenville review – when finding the truth is ‘like grabbing at water’
  • Klara and the Sun review – Taika Waititi’s manic pixie dream robot sci-fi is a sentimental mess
  • Tim Jeal obituary
  • Palestine book by Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari pulled from Random House before release
  • Vermeer by Andrew Graham-Dixon audiobook review – a sharp and authoritative guide
  • Sally Rooney’s stand on Palestine is brave and humane
  • Faust review – FW Murnau’s silent masterpiece is a devilishly dazzling vision
  • The Floating World by Ben Eastham review – a compelling debut of art’s relation to money and power
  • ‘To succeed meant to leave’: inside the jolting film about Brummie estate kids knocked flying by demolition
  • The Book That Changed My Life review – these joyful tales of the power of reading are TV magic
  • Bob Turney obituary
  • Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story
  • ‘Try to eat really well, 80% of the time’: nutrition expert says healthy eating is easier than you think
  • Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville magnificently on edge in intriguing cold war thriller
  • Ply by Hernan Diaz review – Pulitzer winner’s dry vision of far-future America
  • Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned review – Brontë horror do-over is part Dracula, part Jeeves and Wooster
  • The Steps by Sylvester Stallone review – the inside story of Rocky
  • A moment that changed me: I learned to read and write – at 42
  • How to escape our collective paralysis in ‘these uncertain times’
  • Devil in the detail: 100 years on, FW Murnau’s Faust scrapbook reveals the secrets of his silent masterpiece
  • Generation Maybe by Camilla Cavendish review – what’s really behind the fertility gap?
  • Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus review – the zany follow-up to Lessons in Chemistry
  • Freddie Foreman obituary
  • The Weight of Angels by John Boyne review – what if Oscar Wilde had lived?
  • Peasants by Maryam Aslany review – why an ancient way of life may hold the key to our future
  • ‘We were not going to let this rapist destroy our lives’: how one couple came to terms with a devastating attack
  • John Branfield obituary
  • Wildwood review – Laika’s pleasingly old fashioned stop-motion magic-forest odyssey
  • Did Trump get one thing right about Greenland?

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