Film 

Dakota Blue Richards: girl in 10,000

The 14-year-old Brighton-based starlet gives the lowdown on the dreamlike quality of teenage stardom to Kevin Maher

Is Charlie Kaufman out of his head?

Kevin Maher meets the 49-year-old absurdist screenwriter of Being John Malkovich to find out if he is as crazy as his films

Will Stone see success with his W. biopic?

After JFK and Nixon, Oliver Stone takes on George W. Bush. Don’t expect a presidential pardon, says Chris Ayres

Brideshead Revisited reviewed: two stars

James Christopher feels a sense of déjà vu and says Brideshead fans will be disappointed by the lack of fresh twists

Music 

Snow Patrol: fame and the future

They were born to be mild, yet Irish band Snow Patrol are chasing their dream of world domination with a new album

Why does music so often divide the sexes?

Men are into Marr, women prefer Amos- but why does music so often divide the sexes, asks Andrew Smith

Vampire Weekend: do the right fang

The Brooklyn four-piece mix Soweto grooves with New York cool, and love Milan Kundera. Sophie Harris meets unlikely stars

Bruce Parry swaps mud for music

The Tribe presenter Bruce Parry is swapping mud and masochism for music with Songs for Survival, says Ed Potton

Visual arts 

The man who had nothing

Michael Landy consigned all he owned to landfill seven years ago, but now the artist has gone back to basics with pencil portraits

Warhol's sweepings from the factory floor

Andy Warhol's relentless self-obsession is on display in the artist's films, videos and ephemera at the Hayward Gallery

Revolution at the new Saatchi Gallery

Saatchi’s new gallery, a huge home for his great passion for Chinese art, reestablishes his importance to modern art

Nothing left to hide

Photographer Annie Leibovitz finds herself in front of the camera

TV & Radio 

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

An account of the killing of a Brit in Gaza by the Israeli army takes factual drama into tricky territory, says Benji Wilson

Voyage to the heart of America

Susannah Price went in search of the nation’s essence for Simon Schama’s latest series The American Future: A History

By George! It’s Jonny Lee Good

Ed Potton meets the star of Eli Stone Jonny Lee Miller - a lawyer in a new US series assisted by an angelic George Michael

Nasty Nick back on EastEnders

John Altman is to reprise his infamous role as Nasty Nick on EastEnders, returning to Albert Square this Christmas

Stage 

Ralph Fiennes shrinks Oedipus

One of our greatest actors discusses the role of Oedipus, that he is taking on, with one of our most astute psychoanalysts

Gergiev stamps his mark on Mariinsky Ballet

The autocratic Valery Gergiev has stamped his mark in the Mariinsky Ballet, but is he really the right man for the job?

Reviving The Norman Conquests

Ayckbourn’s comic masterwork The Norman Conquests is getting a risky revival from Kevin Spacey and an all-star cast

The comedians entertaining the troops

War is no joke, but our coolest young comedians are finding a ready audience at the front, finds Stephen Armstrong

Books 

Me Cheeta: The Autobiography

The Sunday Times review by Lynne Truss: this Swiftian satire on celebrity memoirs is hilarious, ingenious and unexpectedly moving

The two ages of a Tudor tyrant

Before he was a brutal dictator, he was a virtuous king: in a new biography, David Starkey offers a fresh vision of Henry VIII

The American History: A Future by Simon Schama

The Times review by Peter Stothard

Interview with Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve on why her novels are often driven by the consequences of a single, reckless act

Times Literary Supplement 

The start of Alan Sillitoe

How Sillitoe stood apart from the tradition of Northern novelists going soft and successful in the South

Ali Smith's serial storytelling

A snappy, funny virtuoso narrator, her what-if? riffs and the doom of middle-classness

The genius of Gershwin and co

The men who wrote the Great American Songbook – and the particle collider on Tin Pan Alley

What the West makes of Chinese science

Early China's scientific achievements and Joseph Needham, their controversial advocate