The Wellcome Collection is the public museum of the Wellcome Trust, among the largest private funders of scientific and biomedical research in the world. It aspires to achieve “extraordinary improv...

Clive Davis has been appointed chief theatre critic of The Times, taking over the role from Ann Treneman who stepped down in September last year. Davis will be working with Dominic Maxwell, who has...

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Birmingham Royal Ballet’s artist director tells Debra Craine his plans for a new season, to be performed for a live audience

So we return to Panem, a north American country split into poor districts and the powerful Capitol from where the officer class rule, eat well and train their young to take their places. Fans of The...

Families in Crisis ★★★★☆Pod Save America ★★★☆☆Sugar Calling ★★☆☆☆I’ve always wanted to be a psychotherapist. In my imagination it’s a career that gives you ea

Nicolette Jones’s pick of the year’s finest books for young readers, from toddlers to YA

THE TIMES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEARThe Skylarks’ War (9-11) by Hilary McKayPicking up a book by Hilary McKay — the author of the Casson Family series — is like slipping on warm bed socks on a...

Watching the new Julie Walters film, The Secret Garden, is a strange experience. The movie is a lavish adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic. It’s

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★★★★★She came, she corpsed, she conquered. But most importantly, when Adele returned to the public spotlight after a long absence to host Saturday Night Live sh

There is something enormously reassuring about the boom in job memoirs. While politicians seem incapable of empathising with each other, the thousands of readers of Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt:...

Last week Sheku Kanneh-Mason should have been at Buckingham Palace, in his smartest shoes and trademark Paul Smith suit, to receive his MBE from a senior member of the royal family. Instead the...

I stand up to greet Timothée Chalamet and he shakes my hand. “Nice to see you again,” he says. Endearingly, he thinks we’ve already met — sadly, we haven’t, although his face is awfully familiar. The...

The award-winning writer Alex Wheatle was born in Brixton, south London, to Jamaican parents, and in his powerful new novel he returns to the place he portrayed

In her new book, mother of seven Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason details the painstaking process of raising her prodigiously talented brood

Now, finally, he will get to go back to Sydney. Since he fell ill with leukaemia in 2009 Clive James has longed, but been unable, to return to the sparkling city of his youth. He wrote a poem, Return...

Why would you “retell” Jane Eyre, you might ask, as did my teenage daughter when she saw me reading this nippy, easy-to-digest condensing and rewriting of the novel.“Well, it’s shorter and simpler...

TV backlog, homework, leaves on the line — don’t let excuses stop you from getting stuck into this thrilling new detective series pitched at children aged 9 to 12, but to be enjoyed by everyone. MG...

Before we were ordered to stay at home, I thought my New York apartment needed to be vacuumed every other day. So, after lunch, no matter how busy I was, I’d pull out the Hoover and go at it. Now I...

The name Niamh Algar may not ring any bells, but the 27-year-old Irish actress has already made an indelible impression. On screen she packs quite a punch. Literally. She nabbed the character...

“Who knows if we will ever get to do this interview, Alex?” says Maggie O’Farrell, laughing into her laptop. The novelist and mother of three is at home in Edin

The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski (2020)Published last month with uncanny timing, this is a scientific account of how viruses spread and how they can be stopped. Adam Kucharski tackles such...

It’s raining buckets, or piove a secchiate, as they say in Naples — and it continues all weekend. No matter. Elena and Lila, the resilient characters in Elena Ferrante’s bestselling Neapolitan novels...

Charlotte, Duchess of Somerset would have slotted right into the Me Too movement had it been kicking bustled bottom in the early 18th century.The philanthropist sea captain Thomas Coram had spent a...