The Lede review: Calvin Trillin on the golden age of American reporting

A collection of work by a giant of New York journalism is both a joy and a lesson, particularly on objectivity and its limits

‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech

The journalist and podcaster has been scrutinising Silicon Valley for decades, knows all the big players – and once believed that tech could save the world. But that was before greed and ego got in the way

Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred

An unflinching exploration of conspiracy theories and their knock-on effects also makes heroic attempts to understand the people behind them

The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation

The story of the British man who took on Hitler’s information machine offers valuable insights into the fight against the rise of authoritarianism

The Freaks Came Out to Write review – how the Village Voice changed American journalism

Tricia Romano’s entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-ups and passion

Spaceman review – Adam Sandler consoled by unscary giant spider in deep space

Adaptation of Czech absurdist novel finds Sandler on a trippy cosmic mission while his marriage breaks down on Earth

Gift of the gab: how to become a supercommunicator

For some, the art of conversation remains elusive and awkward. But others find it easy to put people at their ease and steer their way through difficult topics without giving offence. Charles Duhigg asks how they do it – and whether we can get better at it

TikTokers help drive Sarah J Maas ‘romantasy’ boom for Bloomsbury

Publisher tells investors profits will exceed expectations, attributing this to release of House of Flame and Shadow

‘We all lost. That’s where hatred leads’: 10 years after her son was beheaded, Diane Foley on why she met one of his killers

In 2014, terrorists took US photojournalist James Foley into the Syrian desert, decapitated him, then shocked the world with video footage of his death. His mother talks about her doomed attempts to save him, her mission to help today’s hostages, and the meeting that helped her to heal

Tim Hilton obituary

Journalist, biographer of John Ruskin and brilliant art critic who wrote for the Guardian and Independent on Sunday

Orion and the Dark review – Charlie Kaufman surprises with Netflix kids’ animation

The Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich screenwriter has adapted a picture book for his debut family film about being afraid of the dark

Jamie Dornan fled to rural hideaway after ‘ridicule’ over Fifty Shades of Grey

Christian Grey actor tells Desert Island Discs how response to the box office hit forced him to seek refuge in the countryside

I criticised Rwanda’s leader – now I wake up screaming after constant online attacks

Sockpuppet accounts launched a smear campaign after a book about Paul Kagame’s extraterritorial assassination campaign

The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved

Editorial: Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas

Ronald Atkin obituary

Journalist who started out on the Nottingham Evening Post and went on to become the sports editor of the Observer