Cultural prescription: plays, films, books and more to help you start university
From Educating Rita to The Secret History, Guardian critics suggest some comfort viewing and listening to take on campus
On my radar: Roy Williams’s cultural highlights
The renowned playwright on David Morrissey’s acting podcast, the joy of Marvel movies and the musician he listens to every day
Scientists identify key conditions to set up a creative ‘hot streak’
Researchers use AI to reveal runs of artistic success are commonly preceded by an experimental phase
Rita Keegan: the return of black British art’s forgotten pioneer
She was a crucial part of a cultural movement in the 1980s. Now a first solo exhibition in 15 years will allow her work to shine
On my radar: Cornelia Parker’s cultural highlights
The Turner prize shortlisted artist on funny cat videos, a giant pineapple and the song that makes her spine tingle
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
On my radar: Claudia Rankine’s cultural highlights
The poet on her love of The White Lotus, the example of Naomi Osaka, and what stayed with her from the George Floyd murder trial
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
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
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
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
Exhibition reveals how Shakespeare’s Hal has excused royal heirs for centuries
New show uncovers a long tradition for princes of Wales to excuse their own behaviour by comparing it to Prince Hal’s