Two pints of lager and a view of St Paul’s: the secret life of London’s most thrilling boozers

What makes a pub special? From the perfect place to flog atomic secrets to the official strictly protected viewpoint for St Paul’s, a new book tells the amazing stories behind the city’s greatest bars

Queen of Denmark hired as set designer on new Netflix film

Queen Margrethe II, the reigning Danish monarch, will add an adaptation of Karen Blixen’s fantasy novel Ehrengard to her two previous screen credits

‘That first year was a crazy rollercoaster’: why a new mother turned a crisis into cartoons

When her partner left her with a newborn one dark Finnish winter, Anna Härmälä didn’t crumble. Inspired by Fleabag, she turned her pain into raw, funny cartoons

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s next work won’t be read by anyone until 2114

The Zimbabwean writer joins authors including including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong who have agreed to lock away new writing in the Future Library

Firefights, foxhunts and flower shows: a staggering new view of the Troubles

Thirty years in the making, photographer Gilles Peress’s 2,000-page ‘totality’ places scenes of everyday life in 70s and 80s Northern Ireland alongside harrowing images of violence and grief

On my radar: Paula Hawkins’s cultural highlights

The author of The Girl on the Train on discovering Alison Bechdel, identifying with Physical, and her favourite new crime novel

This Dark Country by Rebecca Birrell review – Bloomsbury’s female artists

Whether painting apples or Staffordshire dogs, these British female artists saw a radical side to domestic life

‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back

Turning her camera on her customers, the sex worker and photojournalist exposed the male gaze to itself – and opened up a world of shame and desire

How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis

The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture war

‘I’ll paint you a story about Jackanory…’ TV show’s art up for sale

Lovers of the BBC story slot can recapture their childhood with illustrator’s images for Stig of the Dump and more

Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art

When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response

Rankin designs covers for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy

Exclusive: photographer casts models as characters, creating an amalgam with their ‘dæmons’

Wake review: a must-read graphic history of women-led slave revolts

Rebecca Hall and illustrator Hugo Martínez uncover hidden stories, vital truths and deep, unhealed, intergenerational pain

UK libraries become ‘death positive’ with books and art on dying

Scheme that started in Redbridge to help people talk about difficult subject is rolled out across country

On my radar: Tobias Menzies’s cultural highlights

The star of Game of Thrones and The Crown on his favourite political podcast, a gripping French spy drama, and why the UK hasn’t had enough of experts