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Guide dailyIndieHe’s been a miserabilist folkster, a feuding drummer with Fleet Foxes and a drug-fuelled hobo. Now, as Father John Misty, Josh Tillman is tapping eternal truths and getting real about romance on new album I Love You, Honeybear He’s known for being awkward in interviews, confrontational with audiences and scathing towards duff music critics, so I’m not entirely at ease when we sit down. I don’t even know with whom I’m sitting down.

Misty CopelandInterviewMisty Copeland: the trailblazing ballerina loved by Prince, Obama and DisneyLyndsey WinshipShe thinks ballet’s broken – and has a plan to fix it. The star of Disney’s Nutcracker reboot talks about racism, nude shoes and growing up bendy ‘Ballet was definitely my escape,” says Misty Copeland. “It was the first thing I’d ever experienced in my life that was mine – only mine, not my five other siblings’. It gave me a voice, made me feel powerful.

India elections 2014 This article is more than 9 years oldNarendra Modi's landslide victory shatters Congress's grip on IndiaThis article is more than 9 years oldHistoric election victory for Modi's Bharatiya Janata party transforms political landscape of world's largest democracyThe controversial Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi has pledged to work for all 1.25bn of his fellow Indians in his first speech after winning a historic landslide victory to take power in the world's largest democracy.

Notes and queriesPhilosophy booksPlus: What's Mornington Crescent all about? Why is freshly boiled water a must in tea? Are the Titans always angry?Is it true that a student in a philosophy exam answered the question: "Is this a question?" with: "If that is a question, then this is an answer" and got top marks? Even if not, was the answer right? No. No. MrNotQuiteWright I've heard a variation on the philosophy exam paper, one paper merely asked the question: "

Classic crime caper … Gemma Arterton as underworld mastermind Dianne Harewood in Culprits. Photograph: Des Willie/Disney+Classic crime caper … Gemma Arterton as underworld mastermind Dianne Harewood in Culprits. Photograph: Des Willie/Disney+2023 in TVTelevisionFrom Culprits to Reservation Dogs, there’s been too much incredible comedy and drama to watch this year. Here are the finest series you don’t want to miss out on High Desert(Apple TV+) With all the deserved plaudits for the Columbo-esque Poker Face, it’s been all too easy to miss the fact that it was not 2023’s only excellent series revolving around an unlikely female private investigator – and helmed by acting royalty.

Book of the dayDaisy JohnsonReviewThe darkly riveting relationship between teenage siblings is explored in a gothic tale from the Booker-shortlisted author July and September are the teenage sisters of this eerie, absorbing novel; they are as near to twins as two girls born 10 months apart can be. As we enter their story they are heading north – or so it appears – with their mother Sheela, driving from Oxford to Yorkshire, to a broken down house “beached up on the side of the North York Moors, only just out of the sea”.

Hampstead theatreReviewHampstead theatre, London Set during the strange, out-of-time days between a death in the family and the funeral, Shelagh Stephenson’s 1996 play precariously balances riotous humour and pathos How should you behave when your mother’s just died? There ought to be a Sudden Death Etiquette guide, suggests one of the sisters preparing for their mum’s funeral in Shelagh Stephenson’s play. That handbook probably wouldn’t advise an immediate shag, guffawing with laughter or getting stoned.

Newtown shooting This article is more than 1 month oldAlex Jones offers $55m to Sandy Hook families to satisfy $1.5bn judgmentThis article is more than 1 month oldFamilies of the slain schoolchildren had earlier proposed an $85m settlement for the Infowars host’s lies about the 2012 massacre The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has proposed to pay $55m over 10 years to the Sandy Hook families who sued him for spreading lies that the 2012 school massacre in Connecticut, one of the worst in American history, was a hoax.

OpinionSexual violence This article is more than 9 months oldBeyond the white sands of the Maldives, women live in constant fearThis article is more than 9 months oldFathimath Uzma NaseemMaldivian women face persistent intimidation, abuse and sexual harassment the moment we step outside When I walk it is with my head down, handbag clutched to my chest and my keys gripped in my palm as a weapon – always. Always I am on alert in case a man tries to overpower and attack me.