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From a hut that plays music as if it’s history’s jukebox to a rocket fuelled with sugarcane, the Bahamian makes art freighted with history and peopled by the overlooked and flawed

This first major survey of the artist’s work takes us on a journey in search of knowledge

A vivid debut of trans life in Spain after Franco observes a world of violence and petty cruelties with compassion

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year

Ahead of a season of films related to one of the 20th century’s most influential writers and thinkers, the programme’s curator looks at Baldwin’s relationship with the capital

From new restaurant openings to the latest art exhibitions, here’s everything to eat, see and do this long weekend

He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?

The British-Ghanaian author on having his mind blown by Malorie Blackman as a child, the allure of John Williams’s Stoner and why Zadie Smith made him want to write

From James Baldwin to Sarah Waters, writers have been telling rich, nuanced LGBTQ+ tales for decades – here are some good titles to try