An interview with the biodesign guru whose stunning innovations fuse science and art

A San Francisco-set novel uses illness as metaphor to illuminate the emotional management we all perform daily

Fashion’s fiercest fabric is back — and it’s in fighting form

A short story collection animated by a jazzy, generous spirit

Under Trump, the icons of the US wardrobe have taken on new significance — for the right and the left

A sly and unexpected novel asks how some thrive in spite of trauma while others fall apart in the face of success

An exhibition of lavish and odd official gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth II over the past 65 years

A delicate novel about grief, heritage and the role of death in life

Arts and business leaders share their best holiday memories — and their top travel tips

The photographs are plain, shot mostly indoors in black-and-white, and have a certain affectionate sloppiness

The photographer divides his life and his work between Nigeria, where he was born, and the Bronx, New York, where he lives

Clear and understated short stories by the inventor of the Moomins

The tabloid photographer’s images share a sense of live, wheeling human spectacle, like sweatier, grittier Where’s Wally tableaux

Many of the subjects seem almost dislocated in time and space

The photographs have a precariousness and grimy immediacy

A critic argues for a vision of the essay as diverse, teeming and contradictory

The German artist collected old photographs and then overlaid the images with the scrawled ephemera from the photo backs

In the Welsh photographer’s images, ordinary objects resolve into units of colour, light and shape