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Hot to go • The British actor Joseph Quinn is — yes — on fire as he takes on Human Torch in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”

Liquid diet • Savoury cocktails are here, and they’re nicer than you’d think

On a mission • This festival season, Ezra Collective brings music and a message

Patch perfect • This season’s key accessory is sewn on

Casts away • Artist Rachel Whiteread brings her concrete monoliths to the Sussex countryside

You’re gonna need a smaller boat shoe • Fifty years on from Jaws, was Steven Spielberg the movie’s real style icon?

Imperial phase • Ocean Vuong returns with a sweeping novel about life in small-town America

Get a room • At this classic London pub and steakhouse, it pays to go private

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Hand to eye • Tod’s champions luxury style with a human touch

Hello yellow • With the Renault 5 E-Tech, an Eighties icon is reborn

Off balance by Colum McCann

Travelodgers by Henry Wong

A bargain-bin education by Michael Amherst

Some country for old men by Tabitha Lasley

Forty rock by Joe Dunthorne

In a pickle by Nikesh Shukla

ROCK STARS • The 25 best watches to wear in 2025

MY DINNER WITH TOM • One burger, one polenta, two alcohol-free beers, one new outlook on life (make that two)

FOOTBALL UNDER PRESSURE • With the Club World Cup kicking off in June and team schedules — and players’ bodies — being pushed more than ever before, is the beautiful game reaching breaking point?

Smooth operators • SEVENTY YEARS AGO, THE FIRST JAMAICAN-STYLE SOUND SYSTEMS ARRIVED IN THE UK. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, BRITISH MUSIC CHANGED FOREVER

PREP OSTEROUS! • THE ETERNAL ALLURE OF PREPPY STYLE, AND WHAT THAT MEANS IN 2025

SLOW FOOD • SNAILS ARE SLIDING ONTO RESTAURANT MENUS IN EXCITING NEW FORMS. IS TRADITIONAL FRENCH COOKING REALLY MAKING A BOLD RETURN AFTER YEARS IN THE COLD, OR IS SOMETHING STRANGER GOING ON?

IS IT A BIRD?! IS IT A PLANE?! • For a superhero who can fly at supersonic speed, see with X-ray vision and lift a taxi-cab with one finger, Superman has found one thing surprisingly difficult: his own PR. Though he was a comic-book sensation when he was created in 1938, and later became a bona-fide film star, our affection for him has waned — significantly — in the years since. But when and how did the Man of Steel lose our love? And, with a new film imminent, can he find a way to win it back?

AS A CLOUD • This summer, menswear takes a walk

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