DocumentaryAn HBO docuseries follows the story of a white man who killed his wife but blamed a Black man, and the reckoning that follows “My wife’s been shot. I’ve been shot.” On 23 October 1989 Charles “Chuck” Stuart, who was white, called 911 to report that he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been carjacked and shot by a Black man in Boston’s Mission Hill neighbourhood. Carol died that night. Their baby died days after being born.

CultureThe success of Moonlight remains an outlier in major film and TV representation so it’s been left to smaller web series to pick up the slack On 12 May, screenwriter Kirk A Moore took to his Twitter page calling for his Black gay followers to share images of themselves with their Black partners. The now viral thread seemed like a simple request, with it racking up more than 3,000 retweets and over 7,600 likes as Black couples shared their photos together and Twitter users posted comment after comment sharing their joy in engaging with the thread celebrating diverse body shapes, skin tones, ages and regional backgrounds.

The ObserverFictionReviewThe Booker-winner’s dark and brilliant tale of a gardening collective’s clash with a billionaire explodes the notion of caring capitalism In his great critical work The Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode wrote about the end-directedness of fiction, the way that novels rehearse and forestall their endings – a process he called peripeteia. One thing he doesn’t discuss in that book is what happens when an ending entirely alters your understanding of the text.

Uruguay This article is more than 6 months old‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supplyThis article is more than 6 months oldCountry suffering its worst drought in 74 years, with government even mixing saltwater into drinking supply A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years.

Kobe Bryant This article is more than 3 years oldKobe Bryant: NBA legend dies in helicopter crash aged 41This article is more than 3 years old Star’s daughter, Gianna, also among victims of crash Kobe Bryant: a life in pictures LA Lakers fans gather to pay tribute The NBA, and much of America, was in shock on Sunday after Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players in history, died in a helicopter crash.