‘You cannot unsee it’: what happened next for this year’s Oscar documentary nominees?

Films about prison abuse, ovarian cancer, women’s rights in Iran and more have impressed the Academy, but what real-world impact have they had?

My cultural awakening: a 60s folk band helped me find my place as a person of colour in Britain

Dragged along by my dad to see Pentangle, I heard something ancient that kickstarted my obsession with this country’s folklore – an enchanted, subversive and strange version of a Britain where I could truly belong

Sarah Perry: ‘I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope’

The author on failing at atheism, why she lost her place at Cambridge, and bringing back Hilary Mantel

Plymouth, Minnesota: The Midwestern Sublime

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

Crisis in the Middle East, Ramadan in Gaza, the Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics and Paris fashion week – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Hooked by Asako Yuzuki review

A Tokyo high-flyer tries to befriend her favourite blogger in a novel that wears its aura of black comedy lightly, and its political statements more heavily