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How much is being close to your favorite artist worth? Superfans are reshaping the concert industry

Some admit to spending thousands of dollars for barricade spots and other VIP perks at concerts, which is becoming more common

Rosalind Adams21 Sept

Celebrity, sex and motherhood misery: the 10 best books by Rachel Cusk … ranked!

From an abstract portrait of an actor who might be Natalie Portman to a groundbreaking work of autofiction, we rate the best from the coolly controversial author

John Self21 Sept

Dominic West backs ‘top shagger’ Byron in poetry battle with Bob Geldof

Actor hails ‘proto-rock star’ as best poet, while musician argues for ‘Ireland’s Shakespeare’ WB Yeats at Somerset festival

Helena Horton20 Sept

The Guide #261: There is so much good telly this autumn you may never go outside again

In this week’s newsletter: From the incredible divorce drama War to the hilarious return of The Paper, there’s too much TV to choose from even for a confirmed addict like me

Stuart Heritage19 Sept

From Shaun the Sheep to The Split Up: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Aardman’s woolly hero reckons with a mysterious beast and Abi Morgan’s lawyers-in-love TV drama gets a Manchester-set reboot

19 Sept

Jimmy Kimmel on Mitch McConnell’s return: ‘They’re just wheeling him around like a statue in a wax museum’

Late-night hosts discussed the Kentucky senator’s return after a months-long absence, Trump’s dismissal of AI threats and the ongoing war with Iran

Guardian staff18 Sept

‘I want us to be loud’: Arts Council England’s new chair aims to reconnect young people with culture

In first interview since starting job – and after visiting school where arts are central – Dawn Airey says she wants to fix ‘shocking’ lack of access

Mark Brown North of England correspondent18 Sept

YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation

Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation

Uwa Ede-Osifo18 Sept

John Farnham’s 20 best songs

From soaring ballads to a song that belongs on every road-trip playlist, these are the tracks that underscore why ‘the Voice’ is a national treasure

Cassie Tongue and Ben Neutze17 Sept

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s second term: ‘Has anyone ever done a worse job?’

Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s midterm bribes, Pete Hegseth’s ‘grooming standards’ and Don Jr’s wedding bankrolled by a Russian oligarch

Guardian staff17 Sept

Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda

The disgraced former Marvel villain has found work with Ben Shapiro for hateful campus-set thriller Run Hide Fight: Infidels, which makes its politics clear from the outset

Andrew Lawrence17 Sept

Hard parties, cheap rents and horrible flats: how 90s art and fashion redefined British culture

An evocative new Tate Britain show captures an era when the UK’s newly flush creative industries teamed up with a generation of skint dreamers to bring the decade into vivid colour

Introduction by Miranda Sawyer17 Sept

Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate

Writer and actor, 40, had long struggled with endometriosis before undergoing total hysterectomy at age 31

Maya Yang16 Sept

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s 9/11 remembrance: ‘constantly falling asleep on camera’

Late-night hosts discussed the president dozing off at a 9/11 remembrance event and Mitch McConnell’s unreassuring return to Congress

Guardian staff16 Sept

‘We thought death could do with a bit of dancing’: welcome to Sondering, the arts festival with its own funeral march

A brush with mortality inspired sisters Sophia and Camilla Minden to create a unique event featuring a funeral procession, wild swimming … and an ‘emoshpit’

Claire Potter16 Sept

Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis

The subversive bacchanal for San Francisco’s eccentric underground is ageing out amid an influx of the super-rich

Lois Beckett14 Sept

Somerset ‘festival of ideas’ to measure whether its talks change people’s outlook

Attenders will be asked to take part in tests to see if they have become more open to views they do not agree with

Steven Morris14 Sept

‘Don’t I deserve a little grace?’: Lonnie Bunch on pressure from Trump and leaving the Smithsonian on his own terms

The man who shepherded the creation of the National Museum for African American History and Culture discusses his tenure and interference from the White House

Charles M Blow12 Sept

Eurovision made me realise that I was autistic at 34

I had always dreamed of attending the song contest. But all that glitter brought on sensory overload – and I finally understood who I actually was

Scott Bryan12 Sept

The Guide #260: From Oasis to K-pop, music is going mad for the big-screen documentary

A new wave of concert films and career retrospectives is drawing fans to cinemas – but why now?

Gwilym Mumford12 Sept

From Practical Magic 2 to Saturday Night Live UK: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Bullock and Kidman try to put a second spell on you in the fantasy comedy sequel, while the topical sketch show returns after a well-regarded debut

12 Sept