The American Crisis review: an Atlantic SOS call from Trump’s divided nation
The venerable magazine’s timely collection of essays arrives amid new crises. It is the right book for this time of chaos
Eddie Redmayne condemns ‘vitriol’ aimed at JK Rowling after her trans rights comments
Fantastic Beasts star also defends trans friends who face discrimination ‘on a daily basis’
Netflix faces call to rethink Liu Cixin adaptation after his Uighur comments
Five US senators have written to question plans to adapt The Three-Body Problem after its author voiced support for China’s mass internments in Xinjiang
Sophia Loren returns to movies aged 86
Italian superstar plays a Holocaust survivor who befriends an orphan in Netflix film The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti
Top 10 books about social media
In fiction and in fact, these books trace how in less than 15 years, billions of people have given up a good deal of their waking life to Web 2.0
Martin Short obituary
Television journalist whose films and books exposed police corruption and the covert world of Freemasonry
The right man for the job: how Bob Woodward pinned Trump to the page
For Rage, the Watergate and Washington Post veteran spoke to the president for hours on record. The result is a book for the ages
Why The Home Edit shouldn’t judge a book by its cover
The presenters of Netflix’s decluttering show like to organise books by colour, which suggests not much reading is going on
After We Collided: does this shock hit point the way to cinema’s future?
Ignored by critics, barely marketed and released in just 47 cinemas, the YA romance has eclipsed X-Men at the UK box office and even ran Tenet close. What’s its secret?
JK Rowling’s Troubled Blood: don’t judge a book by a single review
It is tone-deaf of Rowling to write a killer who disguises himself in women’s clothing, but we should be wary when one review in the Telegraph is reproduced without question
Woodward: Trump raged when told Israel-UAE deal wouldn’t make book
Author says president’s tweet declaring the book ‘fake’ followed conversation in which he warned: ‘It’s a tough book’
Trump aides insist Woodward tapes reveal strong leadership on Covid
President on tape saying he ‘wanted to always play it down’ but Republican chair claims: ‘History will look back on him well’
What do writers gain – and lose – when they eschew social media?
You won’t find Maggie O’Farrell, Women’s Prize winner, on Twitter. Perhaps she’s on to something
It may be hard to find conservative satirists – but how about satyrs?
The BBC’s new director general claims there is a leftwing bias in its satirical output - but where does the word ‘satire’ come from?
Rage review: Will Bob Woodward’s tapes bring down Donald Trump?
The Watergate reporter offers a jaw-dropping portrait of a president he deems ‘the wrong man for the job’. But Trump’s electoral fate is far from clear