Fleetwood Mac call reports they will reunite to play JK Rowling’s 60th birthday ‘categorically false’

A representative for the band – who have not played together since 2019 – says it is ‘not in the realm of true’ that they will play at the author’s James Bond-themed celebration

Night People by Mark Ronson review – a superstar DJ’s coming of age

Nerdery triumphs over gossip in this earnest but compelling memoir of the 90s New York club scene

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

Tinseltown takeover: how Harry Potter fanfic has evolved into Hollywood’s hottest property

What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boil

The Girlfriend to Jade: the week in rave reviews

The oedipal thriller with Robin Wright raises the household temperature to nail-biting, while Jade Thirlwall goes solo with groove. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama

Adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting

‘You’re either getting punched or going skinny dipping’: Swedish indie star Jens Lekman on playing 132 weddings of his fans

He once sang, ‘if you ever need a stranger to sing at your wedding ... then I am your man’. Couples took him at his word. Now, he’s turned the experience into an album and novel

Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

The Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce announces memoir The Drums

Publisher says ‘Mike’s honest, entertaining and deeply human memoir is what Smiths fans have been waiting for’

Sorry, Baby to Earl Sweatshirt: the week in rave reviews

A deft drama about the aftermath of a sexual assault and glitchy dispatches from hip-hop’s ‘otherground’. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

John and Paul by Ian Leslie audiobook review – the bromance behind the band

Actor Chris Addison narrates a deep dive into the creative partnership of Lennon and McCartney

‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers

In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakthroughs

‘Who was going to carry Elvis’s drugs and guns?’ How Colonel Tom Parker always looked out for the King

For decades, Presley’s manager has been vilified as a money-grabbing huckster. But compelling new evidence suggests the colonel was actually devoted to the star

Diana McVeagh obituary

Biographer of Gerald Finzi and Edward Elgar who was on the editorial board of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Nick Cave fans swarm charity bookshop in UK after musician donates thousands of books

‘It’s an incredibly varied donation. He clearly held on to his books, some of them are quite old,’ says bookshop worker