On my radar: Clive Myrie’s cultural highlights

The News at Ten presenter on reimagining Dickens, his love of opera and catching up with Gilles Peterson on a Saturday afternoon

London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers steps down after 30 years

Influential editor and co-founder of the literary magazine to be succeeded by senior staff

Godfrey Hodgson obituary

Journalist, broadcaster and influential historian of American society and politics

Fall by John Preston review – the truth about Robert Maxwell

The author of A Very English Scandal charts the rise, ignominious fall and not-so-mysterious death of the publishing tycoon, who was obsessed with his rival, Rupert Murdoch

‘Hip-hop was a gateway’: Johny Pitts on tuning in to books as a minority author

The new host of BBC Radio Four’s Open Book considers how best to reach neglected minorities with literature

John Heilpern obituary

Critic and author of two theatre classics who, over a career of more than 50 years, interviewed many of the greats

Mahmood Jamal obituary

Pioneering producer of films and programmes set in British-Asian communities, and published poet

The White Tiger rides the surge in streamed south Asian stories

The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giants

Joan Bakewell: ‘The world is full of such interesting people’

Joan Bakewell had been a broadcasting pioneer for more than half a century. And she’s still as forthright as ever. Here, she talks to Sophie Heawood about the empowerment of women, her newly streamlined life and why Boris has got it all wrong about the virus

Katharine Whitehorn obituary

Observer writer who revolutionised journalism with her bold, witty columns that tackled social concerns in a personal way

Pioneering Observer columnist Katharine Whitehorn dies aged 92

The first woman to have her own column in the Observer, Whitehorn was a celebrated writer and author

It’s going to be hard work – but there’s so much to look forward to in 2021

This is my final column, but I’m looking forward to 2021 - including a new novel by Angie Thomas and the film adaptation of Dune

Lawsuit over ‘warmer’ Sherlock depicted in Enola Holmes dismissed

Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate had sued makers of Enola Holmes for showing a humane side to the detective only visible in stories still protected under US law