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Tom Hollander’s titular writer ruffles feathers in ‘Capote vs The Swans’; BBC2’s ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ documents a game-changing excavation; ‘Baby Reindeer’ is an unsettling truth-based stalker drama; biographical costume drama ‘Franklin’ stars Michael Douglas stars as Benjamin Franklin; season 2 of gritty Belfast police drama ‘Blue Lights’; Amazon Prime’s ‘Fallout’ is an apocalyptic video-game adaptation — reviews by Dan Einav
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This week’s responses to the Israel-Hamas war remind us that art is rarely apolitical
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Artist whose fight to establish her identity conflicted with devotion to a driven family
Emily Burns’s luxury wellness resort setting lends satire and slapstick to a muddled play
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The Berlin-based creative plumps for Persian pickles, Larmandier-Bernier champagne and ‘little hits of silly’
Eleventh album shows her style evolving in 16 songs that range from charmingly cheesy to moodily melodramatic
Is Alex Garland’s new movie a war film or a political film? And does it succeed? We discuss with the FT’s Stephen Bush and Topher Forhecz
Finding a new calm in Kenya’s island paradise
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Swedish-Danish documentary deploys an eclectic barrage of clips for an earnest study
The ‘Star Wars’ star gives a finely calibrated performance as a solitary Oregon office worker with a morbid dream life
Story of the courtesan and lover of Louis XV is heavily wigged and perfumed but the heroine remains an enigma
LaKeith Stanfield stars in a false messiah farce that is not quite a second coming of ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’
Experiential art gets new support; Hong Kong sales reflect downbeat market; Government Art Collection to buy at London Gallery Weekend
Stories ebb and flow in Ben Power’s play at London’s National Theatre
Penalty against Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter comes amid concerns about betting industry’s influence on sport
Demi Moore, Naomi Watts and Chloë Sevigny play a coterie of women whose feathers are ruffled by Tom Hollander’s Truman
The US musician’s latest album features wide-ranging musical and literary references
The conductor leads the Gabrieli Consort and Players in this wide-ranging score
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