In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that’s new, Bon Jovi get the show they don’t quite deserve – and there are glaring gaps in a history of Gary Glitter’s crimesHave You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (Sky Arts) Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (Disney+) Glitter:...

The star of Homeland and Tár on performing In The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar, working with Cate Blanchett, her Green party upbringing, and acting in a second languageNina Hoss, 48, is a German actor who won international acclaim for her role as Sharon Goodnow in Tár (2022), playing opposite Cate Blanchett. She was cast as a first violinist/wife in...

Tate Modern, London Exploding, eventually, into colour, this invigorating show dedicated to the early 20th-century expressionist group gives deserved prominence to its least famous member, Gabriele MünterA hilariously abrupt portrait by Gabriele Münter, at Tate Modern, shows a pink-faced man at a dinner table, eyebrows raised with candid amazement....

John Boyne’s pacy novella about an Irish footballer caught up in a sex scandal; Angus Hanton’s exploration of our ‘special relationship’ with America; and a cliche-free portrait of SpainJohn Boyne Doubleday, £12.99, pp176To order Earth, Vassal State: How America Runs Britain or The Penguin History of Modern Spain go to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery...

In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humourHe cultivated a hard-drinking macho image, with a taste for big-game hunting and a love of bullfighting, but Ernest Hemingway had a generous and thoughtful side that is revealed in previously unpublished letters.In the decade...

The singer-songwriter’s brand of stubborn protest songs with a strain of tenderness has kept him relevant for 40 years. Here he talks about why he’s fighting for trans rights, his late-night tweeting habit and his forthcoming tour – with his sonRecently, Billy Bragg showed his two young granddaughters a little promo film he put together celebrating...