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Fred Trump III’s portrayal of the Queens-born former president shows him as volatile, uncaring and racist

The streets could be meaner in this new stage adaptation, which is at its best when exploring the challenges of the immigrant experience

My daughter must have nursery rhymes… It is one of her gravest crimes

An informed history of tabloid journalism; an atmospheric Edwardian-era mystery set in Italy; and a riotous study of famous people’s body parts

Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 make up two-thirds of Africa’s population. The number is expected to reach 75% by 2030. They live in an environment of rapid urbanisation, high unemployment rates and poor state services. These are some of the factors that incline young people towards…

Justice Gorsuch likes the new oral argument format and he writes his own opinions.

The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

The Today programme cohost has a new family enterprise with her husband Jeremy Weil, publishing sketches of landmarks in UK cities, and soon the world

In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge

Beautifully hand-drawn, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce exploring deep themes, is this adaptation too classy to have wide appeal?

As she confronts the ecological crisis and the persecution of the Yazidi people in her latest novel, the author talks about the difficulty of being a writer – and a woman – in Turkey