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Miley, Morrissey and Marnie the opera: the essential pop, classical and jazz for autumn 2017

Liam goes for broke, St Vincent bounces back, Nico Muhly gets Hitchcockian, Taylor Swift defends her reputation, and Peggy Seeger pens her memoirs

The Wife review – Glenn Close is unreadably brilliant as author’s spouse plunged in late-life crisis

As the apparently-perfect wife of a Nobel prize-winning writer, Close gives arguably her best ever performance in an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women review – vanilla-flavoured origin story

This drama about the man behind Wonder Woman lacks the kink and complexity of the real-life story, with the most tasteful three-way sex scene in history

On Chesil Beach review – sensitive translation of Ian McEwan’s elegy to inhibited England

Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan are on song as the young couple in Britain’s duffel-coated early 1960s, in a restrained adaptation of McEwan’s novella

Ex Libris: New York Public Library review – the restless mind of the city

A treasured US institution opens itself to the painstaking view of fly-on-the-wall master Frederick Wiseman, who finds enlightenment, humour, compassion and soul within its walls

Half a Booker dozen at the Edinburgh book festival

Sebastian Barry, Zadie Smith, Paul Auster and Ali Smith – it was smiles all round when organisers realised they had invited six of the Booker longlist

Amal Awad: ‘Arab women don’t need westerners to give them a voice’

The author of Beyond Veiled Cliches relates the daily struggle of Arab women – whether Muslim or not – to hold on to identity

The 10 best things to do this week: Against, Edinburgh book festival and Grizzly Bear

Ben Whishaw stars in a post-truth play at the Almeida in London, the Scottish literary event celebrates 70 years and the US rockers unveil a new album

Young adult literature convention under fire over disabled facilities

Authors speak out after reports of problems because a specialised toilet had been given over to celebrity guests at associated Comicon festival

Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Idris Elba lead British invasion of Toronto film festival

Strong showing for UK-produced films in first batch of titles announced, along with US indie favourites such as Darren Aronofsky and Alexander Payne

From Thor: Ragnarok to Stranger Things – 10 things we learned from Comic-Con 2017

The annual fan event in San Diego, with its usual mix of teasers, trailers and talks, gave viewers leads on what to expect from next year’s hottest projects

Ready Player One: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s virtual reality game thriller

The BFG director debuted the footage from his new film at a Comic Con event, showcasing elaborate VR and special effects

The World Was Once All Miracle review – Anthony Burgess’s musical powers

Raymond Yiu’s song cycle built on the novelist’s poems and the European premiere of Burgess’s Symphony in C showcased another side to one of Manchester’s most famous sons

Philip Larkin exhibition in Hull offers fresh insights into poet’s life

Hundreds of personal items gathered for city of culture show that does not shy away from darker sides of his personality

Glastonbury 2017: Jeremy Corbyn conquers the stage – as it happened

The Labour party leader got the biggest crowd of the weekend so far as warm-up man for Run the Jewels. Plus all the rest of the action from Saturday daytime

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