A predatory monster from the depths … Andrea Riseborough in Possessor. Photograph: Signature EntertainmentThe British actor is up for best actress at the Oscars this Sunday for her role in To Leslie. But how does that compare with her other key turns?
by Peter Bradshaw10. Mindhorn (2016)There’s a fascination in seeing an actor of Andrea Riseborough’s class cast as the straight woman in a wacky comedy but she deadpans it out with style.
1000 artworks to see before you dieArtArtists beginning with KFrom Menashe Kadishman to Yayoi KusamaMenashe Kadishman - Fallen Leaves (1997-2001)The Israeli sculptor and painter is perhaps best known for his sheep portraits (three years working as a shepherd can be blamed). But his most powerful work is this installation in Berlin's Jewish Museum. The visitor is invited to walk over 10,000 open-mouthed faces cut from heavy iron plates, evoking the Holocaust.
A Protein World advert in a London underground station. Photograph: Catherine Wylie/PAA Protein World advert in a London underground station. Photograph: Catherine Wylie/PAPass notesDiets and dietingProtein World, unhappy that its controversial ‘beach body ready’ adverts are backfiring, has taken aim at its detractors and invented a whole new concept that could soon go global
Name: Fit-shaming.
Age: Surprisingly recent.
Appearance: Glistening and lithe, and offended that you have even noticed, frankly.
Miami Heat This article is more than 2 years oldHeat's Meyers Leonard away from team indefinitely after antisemitic slurThis article is more than 2 years oldNBA says it is investigating video that went viral quicklyMiami center and avid gamer out for season after surgery
FaZe Clan announces it is ‘cutting ties’ with LeonardThe Miami Heat said Tuesday night that Meyers Leonard will be away from the team indefinitely, sharply criticizing his use of an antisemitic slur during a Twitch stream.
Book of the dayEmma DonoghueReviewThe Room author evokes a touching relationship between the lesbian diarist known as Gentleman Jack and her boarding school lover Eliza Raine
Across her prolific 30-year career Emma Donoghue’s novels have ranged widely both in time (back as far as AD600) and place (from Ireland and the French Riviera to Canada and the west coast of the US), but perhaps the most striking feature of her work remains the devastating intensity she brings to bear on constrained, often profoundly claustrophobic spaces.
Australian food and drinkUsed for everything from pikelets to chow mein to Sunday roasts, electric frying pans were once ubiquitous in Australian kitchens
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I double-check the address that’s been sent to me through Facebook Marketplace and ring the doorbell. Jennifer answers the door, asks if I’m Tristan, and hands me my glimmering prize: a 1957 Sunbeam electric frypan. It is in full working order.
Tiger Woods unhappy with US Open first round display. GuardianUS Open Golf 2015Tiger Woods’ day one capitulation is a fresh chapter of frustration for the fourteen-time major winner, but an entirely predicable one
For Tiger Woods, the saddest aspect of an opening round of 80 at the US Open is the lack of eyebrows that will be raised on account of it.
The chapters of ignominy keep on flowing for a player who had carded just one professional round of 80 or more from a total of 1,107 between 1996 and 2014.
Illustration: Agnès Ricart/The GuardianYoung people are growing up online, just a few clicks away from explicit content. As part of a theatre project, I asked them a simple question - what do you think about it?
by Abbey WrightBetween 2016 and 2022, I spoke to around 10,000 children and young people aged between six and 22 about the impact of pornography on their lives. These children were from right across the UK and a range of backgrounds.
The ObserverFictionReviewDespite its minimalist style, the American writer’s experimental novel tracking the life of a would-be jockey in the midwest is brimming with life
Fiction – so close to lying – has always been a suspicious enterprise, not least to those undertaking it: from the elaborate frame narratives of the 18th century (all those found texts and epistolary novels) to the research expeditions of Victorian realists to the autobiographical turn of the present, authors have long found ways to avoid seeming to make things up, or what Rachel Cusk once called the “fake and embarrassing” business of “making up John and Jane and having them do things together”.
How we madePop and rock‘We were nervous about how Barry White would react since the spoken intro was unashamed pastiche. But he ended up rerecording it as a duet’
Lisa Stansfield, singer, songwriterI met my husband Ian [Devaney] in school when I was 14 and he was 15; we formed a band with Andy Morris, who played trumpet in the school band. We called ourselves Blue Zone and were like three little terriers, getting on the train to London and bugging record companies until someone took notice.