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Autumn arts preview 2019

The Observer's guide to the new cultural season

  • The novelist Margaret Atwood in Toronto last month

    Margaret Atwood: ‘She’s ahead of everyone in the room’

    As excitement mounts for the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, we talk to publishers and writers about the great novelist
  • Left to right: Brad Pitt in Ad Astra, ENO’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Ariana Grande, new English National Ballet guest artist Brooklyn Mack, and a black-figure amphora from c530BC, on show at Troy: Myth and Reality at the British Museum.

    The Observer guide to the best autumn culture

    Long-awaited albums, audacious political theatre and TV fit to follow Game of Thrones, plus film, dance, classical and more…
  • Malcolm Gladwell

    Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’

    The Canadian writer made his name bringing intellectual sparkle to everyday subjects, and his new book - about how strangers interact with each other - is no exception
  • Little Simz.

    Little Simz: ‘Every story told in Top Boy, I’ve witnessed a version’

  • Kane Walters and Ashley Robinson in the new series of Top Boy.

    Ronan Bennett: ‘Top Boy was special to me... I poured it all into the scripts’

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