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The Night Manager: episode by episodeTelevisionThe Night Manager recap: episode five – 'nothing quite as pretty as napalm at night'This week’s penultimate episode had it all: murder, a napalm fireworks show and a surprise weaponry switcheroo. Let’s hope the finale proves as explosive as this unsettling and unlikely – but very sexy – story deserves Spoiler alert: this recap assumes you’ve seen episode five of The Night Manager. Don’t read on if you haven’t.

Neuroscience This article is more than 2 years oldBlind man has sight partly restored after pioneering treatmentThis article is more than 2 years oldMan regains ability to recognise objects in first example of successful optogenetic therapy in humans A blind man has had his sight partly restored after a form of gene therapy that uses pulses of light to control the activity of nerve cells – the first successful demonstration of so-called optogenetic therapy in humans.

ObituaryCarroll O'ConnorUrbane character actor behind America's Alf GarnettA few years ago, I gave a couple of lectures on the QEII, sailing from New York to Southampton. In the dining room, I was at a table with the Supremes and a quietly spoken, middle-aged American couple. I was surprised when many of the American passengers, almost ignoring the three female singers, came up to the shy, thick-set man, and greeted him as "

The ObserverSociety booksReviewGoodhart makes a strong case for reviving the status of work outside the ‘knowledge economy’, as the age of automation approaches When my old school went from grammar to comprehensive in 1972, the headmaster, Frank Brewin, felt he should prepare the ground with the existing cohort of pupils, which included my brother. He warned them not to look down on the new intake from the local secondary modern, saying: “Some people are good with their heads, and some are good with their hands.

Children's booksChildren's booksMaybe Someday by Colleen Hoover - review'Prepare for an emotional rollercoaster, this book made me laugh so much, and I spent at least an hour manically ugly crying'Colleen Hoover, Maybe SomedayMaybe Someday is the kind of book that you read for several consecutive hours and walk around the house with it, firmly attached to your hand. I finished this book the same day I bought it and only put it down for food intervals!

First look reviewDrama filmsReviewComically perfect neighbours court over the Cape Fear inlets in another adaptation of the North Carolina slushmaster. It’s almost watchable – until a phony last twist At around the 90-minute mark, The Choice makes a choice. It could, if it wanted to, just call it quits. By this point we’ve essentially witnessed a full three-act story, albeit a fairly slight one. It’s a courtship film with a few hurdles, reversals and, eventually, a happy ending.

The ObserverShort storiesReviewThe precocious American humourist strikes gold again with 30 short stories mocking the idiocies of menHow can you not be a bit envious of Simon Rich? A former editor of the Harvard Lampoon, he was Saturday Night Live's second youngest ever scriptwriter, has already written two novels – one of which, 2010's Elliot Allagash, reads like a posthumous hit John Hughes film waiting to happen – and now, at 28, is unleashing his third collection of (New Yorker-approved) humour pieces.

Book of the dayRebecca SolnitReviewA collection of essays on ‘further feminisms’ from the writer who inspired the term ‘mansplaining’ is convinced that new stories will open up the worldSerendipity might well exist, for I opened Rebecca Solnit’s collection of essays subtitled “further feminisms” at a moment that demanded what you could call “further feminist” thought. The allegations against Harvey Weinstein had hit the news cycle, and scanning it had become a hot and stuffy experience.

SpaceUS military’s X-37B robot spaceplane blasts off on secret mission aboard SpaceX rocket Launch of plane, which will carry out classified experiments, marks another development in US-China space rivalry The US military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane has blasted off from Florida on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before. As on previous missions, there’s no one on board the reusable plane, which resembles a mini space shuttle and carries classified experiments.