We discuss the 2017 Oscar nominees and review this week’s film releases: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, ‘Denial’ and ‘T2: Trainspotting’.

For this week’s literary review we leaf through the latest books by Gwendoline Riley, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and Miranda Emmerson.

What will happen to TV in the age of Trump? Tom Edwards discusses with ‘Globe and Mail’ television critic John Doyle. Plus: we review two new Netflix series, ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Frontier’.

Andrew Mueller and ‘The Quietus’ editor Luke Turner discuss the latest single by Ibibio Sound Machine, the new album by ex-Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall and a collaboration between Shackleton and spoken-word artist Vengeance Tenfold.

We head to New York, London and Bonn for this week’s must-see art shows with art critic and curator Francesca Gavin.

As awards season heats up we get to grips with three well-received films: Jackie Kennedy biopic ‘Jackie’, family drama ‘Lion’ and psychological horror ‘Split’.

In light of this week’s presidential inauguration in the US we discuss Jane Mayer’s book ‘Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right’. Plus: we leaf through the latest by Pulitzer prize winner Michael Chabon and Gareth Russell’s book on the history of Catherine Howard, wife of Henry VIII.

Matt Wolf, theatre critic for ‘The International New York Times’, reviews plays in London and New York, including ‘Othello’, ‘The Front Page’, ‘The Kite Runner’, ‘Promises Promises’ and ‘Wish List’.

Will Hodgkinson and Robert Bound discuss the latest albums by The Flaming Lips and Courtney Marie Andrews, and a new collaboration between Matthew E White and Flo Morrissey.

We round up the art scene in Washington with a trip to Hemphill Fine Arts, The National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.