The Singing Sea Glass Wall Art for Harvey Nichols Manchester

A heartwarming walk with Paul Merson equally he trades in booze for birdsong

Merson discusses his demons while discovering the countryside for the first fourth dimension - but this is more therapy session than BBC nature show

Sam Ryder may finally provide Britain a winning shot at Eurovision

The charismatic TikTok metal head is the UK's Eurovision entry for 2022, and may represent our best chance in decades
The Staircase, review: a corkscrewing whodunit to match the hit documentary

This HBO dramatisation of the popular Netflix documentary keeps you lot hooked with its cardinal mystery: did Michael Peterson kill his wife?
The White Card, Northern Stage, review: as well many statistics, not plenty story

Claudia Rankine's play about race and privilege deals with of import themes, but makes for unconvincing fine art

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Sam Ryder may finally provide United kingdom a winning shot at Eurovision

The charismatic TikTok metal head is the Uk's Eurovision entry for 2022, and may stand for our best chance in decades
Why I will never lookout man a Marvel motion picture

The superhero leviathan is infantalising viewers and impoverishing our civilization
No-one cares if Boris doesn't watch Lorraine Kelly – the Blair era is over

The Left's joy over the PM'southward 'gaffe' is misguided – working-course voters intendance well-nigh action, not syrupy 'we're just like you' TV references
Lucy Worsley sensationally unbuttons the murderous scandals of Victorian women

A new Radio 4 series – replete with sex and scandal – explores the motives of Victorian killers with a contemporary feminist twist

The White Card, Northern Stage, review: too many statistics, not enough story

Claudia Rankine's play about race and privilege deals with of import themes, simply makes for unconvincing art
Arica, review: a grimly enthralling tale of corporate delinquency

Filmmakers tell the story of the Swedish mining company Boliden and twenty,000 tons of toxic waste dumped outside the Chilean boondocks of Arica
Firm of Ife: familiar clashes of culture and generation, with 1 astonishing star plough

Beru Tessema'southward naturalistic new drama, which revolves around a bereaved British Ethiopian family, reveals Michael Workeye every bit a rise star
Middle, National Theatre, review: essential viewing for anyone with a rocky marriage

Superb performances from Claire Rushbrook and Daniel Ryan bolster David Eldridge'south subtle, poignant drama
Arcade Fire, Nosotros: big ideas, g emotions, and right up there with their best

The Canadian-American ensemble's 6th album is every bit musically and thematically ambitious every bit you'd expect, and it delivers in spades
Barry & Joan: treading the boards with two veterans of British vaudeville'south golden historic period

You'll sally from this pic happy that these 2 troupers are all the same plying their merchandise, and much better versed on the Commedia dell'Arte

Rock'southward untold stories, from ring-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all time

What'southward on TV tonight: The Terror: Infamy, Tehran and more than

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A regular series telling the stories backside pic and TV's greatest hits – and nigh fascinating flops

Sophie Ward interview: equally a model, I made sure my hotel door was locked

The actress and 'face of the 80s' talks about writing novels and her regret about her famous begetter
You lot can't trust a discussion in this unbelievable biography

This maddening novel is a faux-biography full of puzzles and contradictions – simply all its meta trappings can't make up for poor writing
Did Bobby Kennedy murder Marilyn Monroe?

A new Netflix documentary concludes that Marilyn was not 'deliberately killed'. Only one sometime LAPD investigator disagrees
The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman review: a fizzing tale of heartbreak and climate disaster

The Dutch poet laureate moves betwixt prose, verse and script-similar dialogue in this inventive, and fantabulous translated, novel

Donald Baechler, divisive New York painter who paid prisoners and drunks to draw for him – obituary

His cartoonish images, oft culled from fine art by social outcasts, were touted in the 1980s as a Pop Art renaissance but reviled by others
Radical Landscapes: a bracingly unlike kind of ramble through the British countryside

Tate Liverpool'southward new show is only partly dark-green and ofttimes far from pleasant – and that'southward precisely what'south then enjoyable about it
How Venice transformed Monet's art

As one of his Venetian views goes on sale, our writer charts the artist's obsession with the city's light and h2o
The trouble-making life of 'big fame hunter' Ron Galella

Brando knocked out his teeth; Richard Burton had him beaten up; Jackie Onassis sued him. But the pioneering paparazzo had no regrets