Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
In a nail-biting extract from his book, the alliance’s former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalled the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the organisation to the point of collapse.
Forty years ago, Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars named the “Filthy Fifteen” in a high-profile parents’ campaign against “objectionable” music. Garth Cartwright talked to some of those artists, and supporters including Alice Cooper, about being at the centre of a major moral panic.
The White Lotus and Euphoria star has published a “premature celebrity memoir” that takes on abuse, family dysfunction, personality disorders, shame and heartbreak. He explained to Tim Jonze why now was the right time to write it.
Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Philip Oltermann’s long read posed the question: were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were there bigger forces at work?
