Guided walks around Holmes Chapel take in the bakery where the singer used to work and a viaduct featured in a One Direction documentaryIn recent years, the ticket office at Holmes Chapel station in Cheshire has become something of a shrine to the village’s most famous former resident.A lifesize cardboard cutout of the music megastar Harry Styles stands...

The art gallery boss on the role of museums today, the politics of sponsorship and how Cornelia Parker influenced her decision-makingMaria Balshaw, 54, has been the director of Tate since 2017, the first woman to hold the position. She grew up in Northampton, and after university worked as an academic. In 2002, she switched careers, as the director...

A compelling debut novel set on an all-female commune in rural Kent explores how cults ensnare vulnerable peopleAmy Twigg’s striking debut offers a new twist on the cult narrative. Rather than focusing on a charismatic male leader, Spoilt Creatures (the title comes from a letter Vita Sackville-West wrote to Virginia Woolf) is about one woman’s sway...

In his candid new memoir, the guitarist talks about the glory period of Parallel Lines and how addiction and loss altered his lifeRead an extract from Under a Rock by Chris SteinIn the late 1970s, in downtown Manhattan, the musician Chris Stein became friendly with a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Both men were a long way from the celebrated cultural...

Bertrand Bonello’s head-spinning Henry James adaptation set in 1910 Paris, 2014 LA and an AI-controlled 2044 casts a dreamlike spellThe choking grip of artificial intelligence on humanity is the starting point for Bertrand Bonello’s wildly ambitious, century-spanning, French and English-language story of doomed romance, subconscious fears and pigeon-based...

Book festivals and events still sponsored by Baillie Gifford to meet investment firm amid row over fundingIt is the sort of discussion that literary festivals pride themselves on being able to hold in a nuanced, civilised manner: are certain corporations ethical enough to sponsor the arts?Yet the debate over the role of Baillie Gifford, an investment...