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
Alien: Earth to Materialists: the week in rave reviews
The terrifying space monster makes its TV debut, while Celine Song’s new relationship drama has us rooting for Dakota Johnson’s love life. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
‘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
The Assassin to Tyler, the Creator: the week in rave reviews
Keeley Hawes is hitwoman on a rampage, while the hip-hop polymath is back with one eye firmly on the dancefloor. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews