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Julia Samuel shares books that changed how she understands griefThe Week Recommends The psychotherapist shares works by Joan Didion, Kathryn Mannix and Mary-Frances O’Connor
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Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam – a weird but ‘compelling’ exhibitionRoyal Academy show sensitively revisits the work of the troubled artist who spent 42 years in an asylum
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The Cherry Orchard: Kenneth Branagh takes centre stage in ‘star-studded’ productionTalking Point Laura Wade’s staging looks ‘beguiling’ but fails to mine the play’s ‘heartbreaking depth’
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On the Sea: a ‘yearningly tender’ filmThe Week Recommends Helen Walsh’s ‘sensitively portrayed’ tale of forbidden gay love
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Ask E. Jean: a ‘solid, unshowy’ portrait of the woman who stood up to TrumpThe Week Recommends Documentary profile of the journalist who took on ‘one of the most powerful men in the world – twice’
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A Sudden Flicker of Light: a ‘rhapsodic celebration’ of cinemaThe Week Recommends David Thomson’s history of the movies from ‘Psycho’ to ‘Pretty Woman’
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Who will replace Andy Burnham as Manchester mayor?The Explainer Despite early predictions of a close battle with Reform, Labour on course to win first electoral test for new PM
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The actors fighting the Paramount-Warner Bros mergerIn the Spotlight Hollywood stars on both sides of the Atlantic unite to warn of media consolidation and harm to public interest
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Is Fifa selling football’s soul?Today's Big Question Plans to sell stake in World Cup to private investors ‘crosses a line that football’s governing institutions should never cross’
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How ‘fire clouds’ are making wildfires deadlierThe Explainer Increasingly common in North America and Australia, pyrocumulonimbus are causing havoc in parts of Europe for the first time
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‘Painted-lady summer’: Britain’s butterfly boomThe Explainer ‘Miracle’ combination of weather patterns brings spectacular migratory butterfly to UK en masse
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Will Andy Burnham be the PM to fix social care?Today's Big Question After 22 failed reforms in 30 years, former health secretary faces huge funding challenge
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The glittering treasures of ancient KoreaThe Week Recommends Explore the historic town of Gyeongju, once the capital of the Silla kingdom
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The rise of the political mega-donorThe Explainer Limits on public funding open the door to influx of private wealth, with cryptocurrency adding a new complication to transparency
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The Iran war: ‘despair’ in WashingtonIn The Spotlight President’s claims of victory over Iran have ‘bordered on delusional’ as crisis continues to deepen
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Kevin Keegan obituary: a ‘riot of colour’ in a grey worldIn the Spotlight ‘King Kev’ was beloved on the pitch, and represented a new breed of celebrity footballer
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Škoda Fabia 130: ‘satisfying to drive quickly’The Week Recommends What car experts think about Škoda’s sporty new hatchback
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Quiz of The Week: 18 – 24 JulyQuiz Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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The Week Unwrapped: Can we keep making cars safer?Podcast Plus, are we a nation of Eeyores? And will Glasgow make the most of its sporting moment?
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Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern: triumphant show crackles with a ‘sense of pagan magic’The Week Recommends Landmark retrospective is packed with the Cuban-American artist’s ‘raw, timely works’
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World Cup: what England could learn from SpainIn the Spotlight La Roja showed team cohesion, intelligence and fearlessness on the pitch to unseat title-holders Argentina
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The Family Man: a ‘meticulous’ retelling of the case that ‘gripped America’The Week Recommends James Lasdun’s carefully researched book is ‘elegant and intelligent’
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How would we know if World War Three was upon us?In depth Most of us probably won’t realise that we are in a global conflict - at least until it enters ‘the history books as a real event in retrospect’
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Sweeney Todd: a ‘deliciously blood-curdling production’The Week Recommends Joe Murphy’s vision for Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 musical is ‘sure to bring goosebumps of excitement’
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