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Memoir

Johnny Vegas: 'I had no fear of death'

Interview: Channelling an 18-stone drunken loudmouth made him a national icon – but endangered his health, his reputation and his family. Michael Pennington tells Emine Saner how he escaped Johnny Vegas
The fourth plinth

The artworks destined for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

Gallery: Check out the six shortlisted ideas for the next commissions for Trafalgar Square's empty fourth plinth, from artists including Mark Leckey and David Shrigley

Books

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King – review

Book review: Stephen King's sequel to The Shining contains some real, grown-up monsters, writes Steven Poole
Television

Being Paul Gascoigne, The Wrong Mans – TV review

Sam Wollaston: It's access all areas in Being Paul Gascoigne … and it's desperately sad
Film

Film today: Daniel Radcliffe denies Mercury rumours

Film today: Your daily movie bulletin bringing you all the latest on 25 September
Music

Listen to Dragon Noir feat Tamara Schlesinger – Black Dragon

New music: Congolese trio Dragon Noir may have gone AWOL, but their music lives on thanks to a Belgian producer and a Scottish singer

Latest video, audio and galleries

Robert Harris on An Officer and a Spy: 'I have no desire to be taken seriously by the literary establishment' - video interview

Robert Harris talks to Richard Lea about his latest novel, An Officer and A Spy

Latest audio

How Churchill went atomic and currents in science writing – books…

Audio (31min 04sec)
Catwalk shows and the fashion for covering up – books podcast

Audio (38min 32sec)
More audio

In pictures

Oktoberfest 2013 - in pictures

Gallery (32 pictures)
Death row inmates' artworks – in pictures

Gallery (6 pictures)

Latest culture news

Kris Jenner: 'The Kardashian brand is for the fans'

25 Sep 2013:
The Kardashian-Jenner matriarch spoke to a New York audience about 'momaging' her family's multi-dimensional 'brand'
Early Ian McEwan short story found

25 Sep 2013:
Forgotten piece plays up to author's early reputation as 'Ian Macabre'
Pussy Riot member in solitary confinement after hunger strike pledge

25 Sep 2013: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova moved to separate cell for 'her own safety' after she wrote about being forced into slave-like labour
Trafalgar Square: prospective artworks for fourth plinth unveiled - video

24 Sep 2013: Video (2min 01sec)
The shortlisted proposals for the next fourth plinth commissions are unveiled in London
Poem pulled from Forward prize shortlist after plagiarism row

24 Sep 2013:
Poet Matthew Welton discovered CJ Allen's previous work lifted themes and phrases from his own poems
Actors in anti-war drama arrested for possessing live bullets

24 Sep 2013: Quartet from Irish-Bosnian production detained at Belfast airport after scanner found 12 live bullets sewn into lining of a jacket
Nazi gold: does a music score hold the key to buried treasure?

24 Sep 2013: Dutch film-maker starts excavations in Bavarian town, believing Martin Bormann's annotations will lead him to Hitler's diamonds

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Latest features

Is jazz good for babies?

25 Sep 2013:
When jazz musician Michael Janisch had his first child, he put the theories to the test with a specially recorded album
How we made The Wicker Man

25 Sep 2013:
Director Robin Hardy and musical director Gary Carpenter remember a descent into paganism that started in a Manhattan hotel room and ended up with the film company rubbishing their own work
JW3: is London's latest cultural centre 'a new postcode for Jewish life'?

25 Sep 2013:
From kosher cooking to evenings with Kevin Spacey, JW3 focuses on Jewish culture without being expressly Jewish. And it is an ambitious space – once you get past the fortifications, writes Oliver Wainwright
Lover Lover (No 1,603)

24 Sep 2013:
Try some lovely Fleetwood Mac-indebted mellow MOR from Paris via LA and London
Will Masters of Sex be Lizzy Caplan's big break?

24 Sep 2013:
Diane Shipley: The new show about 1970s sex researchers Masters and Johnson gives Caplan her biggest chance yet at the big time
Lucy Walker: documentaries from the school of hard knocks

24 Sep 2013:
Oscar-nominated documentary-maker Lucy Walker has made films about nuclear weapons, the Japanese tsunami – and now, a snowboarder horrifically injured in a half-pipe. She tells Emine Saner why non-fiction is winning the day
In the night garden: a brief history of dreams

24 Sep 2013:
Coleridge feared them, Shakespeare sent up the queen with them, and Dallas used them to get out of an enormous hole. Lucy Powell on the debt art owes to the power of dreams – and nightmares

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Talking points

- Banned Books Week 2013: The top 10 challenged titles – in pictures
  
  Readers and writers face censorship all around the world – even in the land of the free. Here we introduce last year's most frequently challenged books, and the reasons behind those challenges

Doris Lessing is the one whose shopping list would hold interest for me
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commenting on When favourite authors become an addiction

- The Drowning of Arthur Braxton by Caroline Smailes reviewed by RedBirdFlies
  
  she uses a sprinkle of magic realism firmly rooted in the mundane world
  - Write your own book review

- Doris by Earl Sweatshirt reviewed by Crisky
  
  Like a young DOOM, Earl's unorthodox, self-deprecating rolling flow is the freshest thing since Protect Ya Neck was passed around St John's school in the early nineties.
  - Write your own album review

Latest from our blogs

Music blog

The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Stanley Myers – Histoire D'o 2

25 Sep 2013:
Have a listen to an amazing soundtrack – by the writer of the Question Time theme! – to a terrible film
TV and radio blog

The Great British Bake Off 2013 episode six – live blog

25 Sep 2013: It's sweet-dough week – but will the challenge leave any of the contestents feeling bitter? Join Julia Raeside from 8pm when the sugar hits the fan
Film blog

Cine-files: Errol Flynn Filmhouse, Northampton

25 Sep 2013:
A small but perfectly formed new cinema for the Midlands
Music blog

Kanye West's vaulting ambition does him – and others – a disservice

25 Sep 2013:
The rapper's Radio 1 interview offered truths – but wrapped in so many levels of self-aggrandisement they became almost meaningless
• Read our report of the interview with Zane Lowe
Music blog

R&B's blue-collar blues

25 Sep 2013:
As rap and R&B gentrifies, it will miss out on working class artists like Fantasia, K Michelle and Tamar Braxton

Reviews by genre

Latest reviews

Edinburgh festival 2013 8hr 52min ago

On Behalf of Nature – review

25 Sep 2013: Meredith Monk's skilful work encourages us to reflect on our relationship with nature, writes Clare Brennan
Opera 15hr 9min ago

Elektra – review

25 Sep 2013:
Charles Edwards's changes to his staging don't always work, but you have to hear Christine Goerke's shattering performance, writes Tim Ashley
Theatre 15hr 19min ago

Macbeth – review

25 Sep 2013:
Rachel O'Riordan's brawny production is full of intelligent, invigorating performances, writes Mark Fisher