Music 

Lykke Li sets her sights on Britain

It took time and a fair number of hard knocks, but Lykke Li is about to go mega. Pete Paphides met her in Stockholm

Can Scarlett Johansson sing?

Pete Paphides reviews the Hollywood actress's first album and discovers a bleat that only a deaf mother could love

Jason Pierce's Songs in A&E

Jason Pierce’s whole life, not just his new album, has been guided by accident and emergency, he tells Will Hodgkinson

Music, food of Hove

Ginny Dougary on the pleasures of writing dirty songs for the Brighton City Singers, to be performed at the Fringe Festival

Film 

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (aka Cannes)

With the premiere tomorrow fears mount the new film is a let down

Sir David Lean’s films are restored to glory

The Passionate Friends and This Happy Breed are receiving gala screenings as part of the Cannes official programme

What’s up with Woody?

He keeps making them, but the films of Woody Allen no longer captivate even the great man himself, James Mottram hears

Revenge is a dish best eaten until we’re sick

We may not endorse it publicly, but something primal in us roots for the righteous avenger when we see him or her on screen

Visual arts 

Millionaires queue for new Freuds

Lucian Freud became the most expensive living artist when a painting of his sold for £17.2m... new works start at £10m

Virtual gallery for the artist

After falling out last year with the art dealer who helped to make him rich, Jack Vettriano has set up a website to sell his work

Marianne's nipples, faithfully reproduced

In the Seventies the sculptor Clive Barker made abstract bronzes of his secret lover, the pop diva Marianne Faithfull

Dreamgirls for a white man's world

Careful grooming helped to turn the Supremes into the acceptable face of black music as a new show at the V&A reveals

TV & Radio 

BBC softens over Doctor Who toys

A report in The Times helped persuade the BBC to adopt the knitting patterns used to recreate Doctor Who monsters

Julie Walters to play fighter of TV 'filth'

Mary Whitehouse, who embarked on a mission to clean up British television, will be played by Julie Walters in a new BBC drama

Duchess invites Hull estate family to visit

Family in drug-death inquiry have become firm friends with Duchess of York, whom they met while making a TV show

Slow boat to China

Rural China with its ancient ways of life and rich wildlife has remained a mystery to the West. Until now

Times Literary Supplement 

Surfing and the fascist aesthetic

In Tim Winton's powerful new novel, the sea compels and controls the protagonists

Josef Fritzl's fictive forebears

Austrian politicians want to distance their country from the Fritzl case: literary historians find it harder

Fighting for peace in the twentieth century

Michael Howard's reflections on hope, fear and history

The philosophy of physiognomy

Hairy thighs, thick feet and other ways in which the Greeks judged character

Books 

James Bond: a reader's guide

Movies have made Bond a global brand, but the books came first. Ian Fleming expert Henry Chancellor gives the low-down on the entire canon

Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly

The Sunday Times review by Dominic Lawson: the shocking truth about the world population-control movement

Avro Lancaster: Owner's Workshop Manual

The Times review by J. Douglas Hudson

Up Till Now: The Autobiography by William Shatner with David Fisher

The Sunday Times review by Tom Shone: is the former Captain Kirk the first actor to acknowledge his own cheesiness?

Stage 

The Likely Lads back from Tinseltown

With Hollywood at their feet, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are reviving their much-missed sitcom for the stage

Polly Stenham: the new Face of theatre

At 21, Polly Stenham already has the grandees of theatre falling at her young feet. If only her father could see her now

Ruthie Henshall returns to the West End

Does the new role in the musical Marguerite reveal a hint of sadness for the bubbly actress and singer? Matt Wolf met her

Peter Hall on Michelle Dockery

As Peter Hall’s latest find arrives in Pygmalion, we assess his unfailing eye for the next big thing