Your Summer Cultural Calendar

With British cinemas cautiously reopening from 4 July, the question is: will anyone actually want to sit in an airless room with a bunch of strangers? Christopher Nolan's Tenet – a mind-bending action extravaganza with John David Washington and Robert Pattinson – has been pushed back to 26 August.

Saint Frances is a brilliant indie charmer that stars Kelly O'Sullivan (who also wrote the script) as a waitress whose life is changed forever when she is charged with the care of a six-year-old girl. Released in cinemas 17 July.

In Proxima, Eva Green is an astronaut as committed to her career as she is to her eight-year-old daughter. Alice Winocour's beautiful film is a perfectly heightened study of the struggle faced by all working parents. Released in cinemas 31 July.

Bill & Ted Face the Music is a sequel that comes 30 years (yes, sorry, 30 years) after the original, starring Keanu Reeves and the other one as middle-aged dads, still rocking and time travelling. Released in cinemas 21 August

Theatres won't be open any time soon, but Old Vic: In Camera brings a run of socially distanced performances of Lungs – starring Matt Smith and Claire Foy – streaming live, directly to your living room.

Ellie Goulding's fourth album, Brightest Blue (17 July), promises more synth pop bangers in the vein of current single, Power.

Katy Perry's as-yet-untitled album is out 14 August. Maybe she'll unveil the album title and baby name at the same time?

Lana Del Rey takes a break from causing Twitter controversies to release Chemtrails Over The Country Club on 5 September.

A new Rihanna album has been heavily rumoured for months. 'I can't say when I'm going to drop,' she said in March, 'but I am very aggressively working on music.' Come on Riri, save our summer.

Screenwriting legend Andrew Davies adapts Vikram Seth's bestselling book, about a young woman looking for love while establishing her own identity in post-Partition India. A Suitable Boy, BBC One, July

A gruesome murder in 1930s Los Angeles sets the scene for this spookily epic ten-part drama, with Natalie Dormer as a sultry, shape-shifting supernatural demon.Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, Sky One, July

This boldly sexy six-part drama stars Juno Temple and Hugh Skinner, in an adaptation of Anais Nin's collection of erotic short stories.Little Birds, Sky Atlantic, August

The Wire creator David Simon brings us a terrifying adaptation of the Philip Roth novel that imagines an alternate reality in which a far right candidate is voted President of the United States and forms an allegiance with the Nazis, starring Winona Ryder.The Plot Against America, Sky Atlantic and NOW TV, 14 July

Millie Bobby Brown stars as Sherlock's tenacious younger sister, on the trail of her missing mother (Helena Bonham Carter), in this film adaptation of Nancy Springer's novel.Enola Holmes, Netflix, August

This gripping tale of friendship and motherhood is the perfect summer read. The New Girl by Harriet Walker, 9 July

A manifesto for choosing optimism, by the inspiring model-turned-campaigner.Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole, out 30 July

A wry novel about family and friendship that is as dark as it is joyous. Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue, 6 August

This collection of essays is both insightful and reassuring.How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? by Pandora Sykes, 16 July

A beautiful tale of a bright young girl facing dark family truths in rural Ohio.Betty by Tiffany McDaniel, 18 August

A memoir of life lived at full throttle, until motherhood changed everything.The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood, 16 July

A novel about that moment when friends' life decisions set you adrift.Olive by Emma Gannon, 23 July

This brutal addiction memoir is ultimately uplifting and galvanising.Glorious Rock Bottom by Bryony Gordon, 6 August

1950s suburbia is the setting for this devourable mystery, with a side of love story.Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, 9 July

Six deeply personal essays about the experience of lockdown from one of the finest writers of our generation.Intimations by Zadie Smith, 28 July

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