Helen Mann obituary
Other lives: Secretary and long-serving staff member at the Economist whose roles included commissioning the magazine’s art collection
Let’s turn the air blue, girls – we should be free to curse at will
Women’s body parts have long been appropriated for the purpose of cursing, so it’s only right that we reclaim them with profane gusto
‘I have a bag on my head. Deal with it!’ Is Blindboy the perfect podcaster?
He wears plastic bags as an ‘autistic protest’ and makes podcasts about everything from fish fingers to the Baileys sex cult. The former Rubberbandit talks about turning his ‘weirdo’ world into millions of hits
Edge of the aisle seat: the case of the theatre critic who becomes a sleuth
Countless nights spent reviewing plays informed Here in the Dark, a novel of psychological suspense in which critical faculties are essential to solving a real-life drama
Vicars, tennis and a black sleuth… it would be a mystery if the BBC hadn’t updated Agatha Christie
Murder is Easy provoked outrage but the Queen of Crime was in safe hands in a fresh adaptation for a modern audience
Poetry sales boom as Instagram and Facebook take work to new audiences
Writing and reading poems is no longer a minority pastime as verse overlaps with self-help genre and classics are revisited
Troublesome talent and meddling ministers. As BBC chair, Samir Shah, here’s what you’ve got to do
Our expert panel on how the BBC should deal with perfidious governments and a hostile press – all while continuing to engage the public
‘A moment after death when the face is beautiful’: rare Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor
The Strand magazine ran Requiem, dated to 1955, after editor found it in Bodleian library at University of Oxford
Telling tales: Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press celebrates 25 years of championing truth-telling fiction
NoViolet Bulawayo is among authors to pay tribute to the independent publishing house that shook up the country’s literary scene
How They Broke Britain by James O’Brien review – a catalogue of disasters
No decent person could disagree with the radio host’s account of political failure in Britain. But what does he think needs to be done about it?
Digital curator Giulia Carla Rossi: ‘There is a misconception that if something is on the internet it will last for ever’
The British Library’s head of digital publications on the urgency of preserving digital stories, from smartphone apps to interactive web narratives
Network of Lies review: Brian Stelter on Fox News, Trump and Dominion
The former CNN host focuses on how the Murdochs paid for spreading conspiracies – and how they continue to flourish
‘A recipe for blandness’: critic Peter Biskind on why quality television is in chronic decline
The author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls has turned his gaze from Hollywood to prestige television, arguing that a golden age of TV that began with The Sopranos has been ruined by corporate greed
Can Greta Gerwig bring a new kind of magic to Netflix’s Narnia Chronicles?
The Barbie film-maker is set to direct adaptations of at least two of CS Lewis’s fantasy novels for the streaming giant – will she do better than the last ones?
Kevin Phillips obituary
American political analyst behind Richard Nixon’s electoral ‘southern strategy’ who later became an author and columnist