Your guide to the best summer culture

Adele comes home, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis goes for broke, the Edinburgh fringe fires on all cylinders, and HBO and Amazon have a fantasy face-off… our critics pick the best of the new season’s artsQ&As with some of the stars of the new season’s highlightsThe return of the big American stars…
Whether postponed by Covid or just ready to see Europe again, US pop big-hitters are striding our way this summer. Billie Eilish, fresh off a deliriously received North Ameri