top-10s
Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
Stephen Troussé
mccartney
To meet you in the falling rain...
Paul finds a new direction at the end of the world
music
Cathedral swoopings
The honeyed, potent swoon of the Cocteau Twins
music
Rich conceptual orrery
A review of the Magnetic Fields reissued 69 Love Songs, and a Q&A with Stephin Merritt
music
The last days of disco
Pet Shops Boys in the rock and roll years
music
Scary monsters
Dry Cleaning explain how art and humour are our best defence from techbro supercreeps
moz
Losing in front of your home crowd
Heaven doesn’t seem to be your home
moz
Farewell cheerless marshes
Hooray for Hollywood
moz
You know your luck too well
Four years of scandal, acclaim, revenge and betrayal
moz
Good times for a change
It is your sacred mission to restore the sanctity of the Pop Moment
films
THE CHRISTOPHERS
McKellen carries the whole thing quite magnificently on his pale, scrawny, octogenarian shoulders
films
KÖLN 75
By capturing the skronky zeitgeist, Fluk enriches our experience of the performance more vividly than a conventional biopic