Gerry Brakus

Craig Easton's An Extremely Un-get-atable Place depicts the remote Scottish house where Orwell spent much of his final years

Films like When Harry Met Sally and This is Spinal Tap resisted hardness or cynicism

The best photography books published in the past 12 months – selected by the New Statesman’s creative editor

And God Created Woman, and the trouble that followed

The giant of American cinema has died aged 95

The war photographer has died aged 61

The photojournalist and subject of the new documentary Hostage was a fearless risk-taker

The star's new memoir reveals struggles with men, addiction and having Judy Garland as a mother

The Photo London fair at Olympia was a joyous rebuke to all our fears about modern human attention

An exhibition marking the centenary of the actress' birth shows our need to explain her rather than accept her