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The novelist on grief, being a terrible liar, and wanting to join the circus ...

The begoggled yellow munchkins are indulging in a spot of time travel, and the queen of pop returns with a new album of pristine dancefloor bangers ...

From the gold rush to civil rights, the moon landing to 9/11, the US has always understood, mythologised and sold itself through the power of the still image ...

Cape Verde and Argentina played out a game for the ages in their last 32 clash. We take a look at some of the best images from an incredible evening in Miami ...

Running alongside the Archibald prize, the Young Archie invites artists aged between five and 18 years to submit portraits of people who are special to them ...

Close to Home pairs the two artists' contrasting visions of the pursuit of happiness in north-east England. There are many good things but they don't add up ...

Resonant black and white photographs show Palestinian refugees and the sites today of the homes they were forced to leave during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war ...

Rye spies a quirky summer show, Leonora Carrington's surrealism is knowingly Freudian and ancient reptiles take over the Natural History museum ...

Visitors can get free peek at works by one of UK's most significant 20th-century artists and one of his successors ...

This week's best wildlife photographs from around the world ...