This is the Fire review: Don Lemon’s audacious study of racism – and love
The CNN anchor’s thoughts on being a ‘double negative’ – Black and gay – show he has grown while his country largely has not
From Line of Duty to The Fall: why can’t TV shows stop killing women?
Extreme violence against women seems to have become a staple of TV crime shows. Writers and producers reveal what’s behind the high female body count – and what needs to change
‘The man was obviously a crook’: the decline and fall of Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch were once the two biggest power brokers in British politics. But their fierce rivalry paved the way for Maxwell’s demise
Eliot Higgins: ‘People accuse me of working for the CIA’
The founder of the online investigative collective Bellingcat talks about working with Alexei Navalny, open source reporting and the trouble with ‘cyber-miserablism’
Rush Limbaugh obituary
Rightwing broadcaster known for a brand of attacking ‘shock jock’ radio that set the tone for the internet age of politics
Oscars release first shortlists for 2021 Academy Awards
Boys State, MLK/FBI and Crip Camp among contenders as categories announced include best documentary and best international film
‘Witch’ tweets reflect society’s fear of older women, says Mary Beard
Inside Culture host draws parallel between witch trials of the past and the online abuse she receives
The Assault on Truth by Peter Oborne review – how Boris Johnson played the press
The former Daily Mail columnist details the lies that assisted the prime minister’s rise to power, but is slow to admit his own part in a culpable media
‘Lucky for him he could write’: Ken Burns takes on Ernest Hemingway
Too white, too male, too privileged – and according to some critics, that’s just one of the co-directors. A new PBS documentary on an American giant sails in stormy waters
Ved Mehta proved that blindness is no obstacle to sparkling observation
The New Yorker writer, who died last month, detailed the world with such clarity that some doubted his disability, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack
What can the modern novel tell us about life in the age of the internet?
Patricia Lockwood and Lauren Oyler’s books examine the effect of grief on our real and online presences, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
US magazine Poetry faces outcry for publishing work by sex offender
New issue, dedicated to work by current and former prisoners, provokes uproar after it emerges one poet has served time for child pornography offences
The Assault on Truth by Peter Oborne review – Boris Johnson’s lies
A clinical and merciless account of Johnson’s mendacity, written by a former colleague
We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins review – the reinvention of reporting for the internet age
In this gripping manifesto, the citizen journalist who uncovered the identities of the Salisbury assassins sets out his vision for news gathering in the 21st century
Fall by John Preston review – the mysterious life and death of Robert Maxwell
The author of A Very English Scandal details the media tycoon’s bullying, lies and looting of pension funds in an absorbing profile of the war hero turned rogue