The big idea: are we about to discover a new force of nature? theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

‘We’re the last bastion of rental’: the video stores resisting the rise of streaming theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

Akon’s honest playlist: ‘The best song to have sex to? Smack That by Akon’ theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Rishi to the Tories and doing a crossword: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/p…

A Wessex trail: Dorset’s Hardy Way leads to the historic Smugglers Inn theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

Jermaine Jenas looks back: ‘Mum raised us alone with no money. It gave me incredible ambition’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

This is how we do it: ‘My sex drive starter motor is slower than his but just as powerful’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Jump for joy! How cheerleading conquered the world, from Lagos to Ho Chi Minh City theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

‘The anti-pet of bourgeois life’: why the world needs big cat energy theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Summer in Scandinavia: five eco-friendly ideas to holiday like a local theguardian.com/travel/2024/ap…

I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

‘The lone hand prompts us to ask what is going on behind the curtain’: Callie Eh’s best phone picture theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Indira Varma: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? Go back to where you came from’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Tom Gauld unveils some exciting new literary genres – cartoon theguardian.com/books/picture/…

How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson review – a stark study of male rage theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

50 best beauty bargains: Sali Hughes’s favourite products for under £20 theguardian.com/fashion/2024/a…

What links Alice in Wonderland with Mr Lazy? The Saturday quiz theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

‘Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream’: One Day author David Nicholls on the peculiar pleasure of long, soggy solo walks theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…