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Saturday

  • Pauline Kana wearing a white T-shirt, black jeans, a black leather jacket and red heart-shaped glasses, laughing at the camera and doing the 'let's rock' hand sign with both hands

    Experience
    Experience: I became the world’s oldest crowd surfer at 99

    After retiring at 83, I had a new lease of life creating social media content with my grandson. Then I broke the crowd surfing world record
  • Margaret Atwood.

    Audiobook of the week
    Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – a dryly funny memoir

  • The FeeJee Mermaid

    Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions

  • An illustration of two people walking a large tent strapped to both their backs.

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: my friend and I bought a tent but she’s moved away. Who owns it now?

  • Patricia Lockwood

    Book of the day
    Agate Head / Stone Soup by Patricia Lockwood review – a gem of a collection

  • Model with slicked back hair and hoop earrings sitting on stool wearing slouchy waisted black leather jacket, checked trousers and brown heels and holding a brown handbag

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: how to wear a leather jacket so it doesn’t wear you

  • A round loose powder compact stacked upright on top of another one as powder bursts around them against a blue background

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Sali Hughes on beauty: loose powders have had a glow up

  • Stephen King.

    Other Worlds Than These by Stephen King and Peter Straub review – a self-indulgent finale to the Talisman trilogy

  • Elon Musk at the CPAC conference in 2025.

    Book of the day
    Blockers by Michael Lewis review – the quiet heroes who tried to stop Doge

  • Red anthurium flower with green leaves growing in ceramic pot isolated on white background.

    Houseplant hacks
    Houseplant hacks: Are windowsills too cold for plants in winter?

    It may be flooded with light, but that window ledge is only a pane of glass away from the elements. What’s the best way to protect your plants?
  • Whitney Houston in 1999.

    Holding Lightning by Emily Lordi review – an intimate portrait of Whitney Houston

    An empathetic biography of the the singer recasts her tumultuous later career as a triumph of self-expression
  • Barbara Kingsolver.

    Book of the day
    Partita By Barbara Kingsolver review – a midlife follow-up to Demon Copperhead

    The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises
  • Lily James (front) as Mrs de Winter and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers and in the 2020 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.

    The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca

    The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper
  • A frowning woman reads in an armchair beside two houseplants blowing air from their faces

    Is it true that …
    Is it true that … houseplants freshen the air in our homes and offices?

    If you want to seriously oxygenate your rooms with greenery, you’re going to need a lot of space
    • Forty years of the Phantom of the Opera - the show that wouldn’t die: ‘People come back to hear the impossible’

    • My search for the perfect Italian aperitivo in Verona

    • Book of the day
      Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne review – a quirky journey through the afterlife of invention

  • TGbooks253gruffalo

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Tom Gauld on some new faces in the deep dark wood – cartoon

    See past the prickles …
  • John Cooper Clark in 1957 wearing a cowboy hat and shirt

    Flashback
    John Cooper Clarke looks back: ‘Getting older sucks – it’s marginally better than being dead’

    The punk poet on his heroin years, dressing like Ronnie Wood, and achieving his boyhood ambition
  • Nick Hayes photographed at the Hardwick Estate. August 2026.

    ‘We have been dispossessed’: Nick Hayes on land rights and a peaceful revolution at the real Toad Hall

    The co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign and author of The Book of Trespass discusses the Oxfordshire riverside community he calls home and how Hardwick Hall has been taken back by the people
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