News of the World paid women to sleep with celebrities, James Blunt says
Tabloid had women on payroll to get stories about people’s sexual performance, singer tells Hay festival
Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown
Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism
Top authors join trail of Devil in the Wilderness podcast real-life murder mystery
Michael Frayn and Blake Morrison help son of Christopher Wordsworth in attempt to unravel whether depression might have led Observer writer to kill
Say More review: Jen Psaki on Biden, Trump and how to make your point
White House press secretary turned MSNBC host offers advice, a little dish and barbed critiques of Republican predecessors
Dame Shirley Conran obituary
Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman and women’s editor for the Daily Mail and the Observer
Shirley Conran, campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’, dies aged 91
Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman turned her attention to helping people overcome anxiety about maths
Pulitzer 2024 winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times
Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life, while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Gaza war
‘A sense of wonder enveloped my mother and me’: Mishal Husain on her eye-opening journey through Uzbekistan in search of an ancestor
The broadcaster knew she had a link to the central Asian country she first visited on her gap year 30 years ago. But retracing her steps, this time with her mother in tow, she made a big discovery about their family
Martin Bax obituary
Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit
Yorick Blumenfeld obituary
Other lives: Dutch journalist, author and futurologist who was an advocated for a post-capitalist society
John Barth obituary
American postmodernist novelist whose experimental approach challenged literary conventions
The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more
Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small
‘Pretty bad’: NBC condemned by top US historian over role for Ronna McDaniel
Timothy Snyder says former RNC chair ‘tried to disassemble our democracy’ and should not have been invited to take up position
‘I get into trouble’: Gillian Anderson on being brave, her resting face and much anticipated book of sexual fantasies
Her uncanny portrayals of famous women have brought her legions of fans. Now, as she prepares to play Emily Maitlis in the pivotal Prince Andrew interview, the actor talks to Eva Wiseman about acting, soft drinks and ‘side hustles’
Donald Trump’s niece to publish follow-up to bestselling memoir this year
Mary Trump’s first memoir concerned former president and family dysfunction new book will focus on herself and her father