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Belle Burden seemed to have a perfect life. Then her husband walked out on the family. Strangers, her compelling memoir, is now being made into a film

Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Ambition, at the Orangerie in Paris, makes plain the artist’s achievements

Sky’s version of the US sketch-show institution is halfway through its first series. Will it be back for a second?

April 18th-24th highlights, including Mint, Super Garden, The Neighbourhood and Unchosen

Jack Reynor, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jude Law feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 16th, 2026

French-Moroccan writer on success, dual identity and nuance in a black-and-white age

Trinity College Dublin cleaner’s beautifully written memoir is no rags-to-riches story but a book about motherhood, choice and the constant renegotiation of a woman’s life

Julie Kelleher directs Niall McNamee and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in Flannery’s adaptation of his debut album, about two brothers who arrive at a painful separation

The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry

Bray Jazz Festival 2026: Maestro on being a doctor, an ice-skater and a musician whose latest project marks the centenary of the birth of Miles Davis

O’Donnell+Tuomey’s new branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the city’s East Bank quarter, is part of a rethink of what such institutions should do

Louise O’Neill’s past novels have demonstrated a capacity to disturb; here she has opted to write something more superficially entertaining

A novel of doubleness, memory, and the uneasy inheritance of love

Scottish writer’s novel is propelled by an anarchic energy whose literary style approaches the quality of a troubled dream

A new work by Matthew Geden