Great interviews of the 20th centuryMarilyn is deadMarilyn Monroe was found dead in bed this morning in her home in Hollywood, only a physical mile or two, but a social universe, away from the place where she was born 36 years ago as Norma Jean Baker. She dies with a row of medicines and an empty bottle of barbiturates at her elbow. These stony sentences, which read like the epitaph of a Raymond Chandler victim, will confirm for too many millions of movie fans the usual melodrama of a humble girl, cursed by physical beauty, to be dazed and doomed by the fame that was too much for her.

Gerald Hughes, right, with his brother Ted, then poet laureate, in 1990. Photograph: the Ted Hughes Estate/PAGerald Hughes, right, with his brother Ted, then poet laureate, in 1990. Photograph: the Ted Hughes Estate/PATed HughesObituaryGerald Hughes obituaryBrother of the poet Ted Hughes and an important influence on his work“What’s the first thing you think of?” Ted Hughes asked himself in the title of one of his poems. To which the answer was: “My brother bent at his airplane, in his attic.

Athletics This article is more than 4 months oldHead of Athletics Integrity Unit takes aim at doping policies of other sportsThis article is more than 4 months old‘Many will go through careers without being tested’David Howman especially critical of football and FifaDavid Howman, the chair of the Athletics Integrity Unit, has raised concerns about the anti-doping policies of other major sports such as football, rugby and golf. “Not many of the big sports have a robust anti-doping programme,” Howman said.

TV reviewLouis TherouxReviewLouis finished his time in Ohio’s high security hospitals with a look at the infinitely subtle gradations between sanity and insanity Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity (Sunday, BBC2) concluded with an attempt to chart the almost infinitely subtle gradations between sanity and insanity, trying to pinpoint the moment when criminal actions shade into clinical symptoms. On these impossible judgments rest such things as competence to stand trial – meaning the difference between a punitive, finite prison term and a rehabilitative but potentially lifetime stay in hospital.

The ObserverLife and styleThe boy Brando lostHe was Marlon Brando's 'number one son' and heir to the actor's $20m estate. But his mother had him kidnapped by hippies, he blasted his sister's lover to death, and he died last month destitute, hooked on crystal meth. Christopher Goodwin looks back at the tortured life and tragic death of Christian BrandoIt might have been a blessing that Christian Brando didn't regain consciousness during the last two weeks of his life.

AfghanistanThe elite force who are ready to dieBrigade of well-equipped Arab mercenaries is backbone of Taliban forcesAs US jets bomb Taliban frontlines one of their key targets will be Osama bin Laden's ruthless "055 brigade" of Arab mercenaries. The brigade is a small unit of highly trained, well-paid guerrilla fighters set up by Bin Laden shortly after he arrived in Afghanistan five years ago. The highly motivated elite international group is a key target, much as Saddam Hussein's republican guard was in the 1991 Gulf war, military experts say.

Children's booksChildren's booksFinding Sky by Joss Stirling - review'I loved this book because it's a fantasy/romance/action book and that's my favourite kind'Joss Stirling, Finding SkyFinding Sky is a romance/action teen book. The series revolves around the seven Benedict Brothers who are Savants, people with psychic powers, and their quest to find the Soulfinder, their soulmate. The first book is from the point of view of a girl named Sky Bright. She was adopted by the Bright family when she was ten and the story begins when she moves from London to Colorado with her artist parents, Sally and Simon.

Book of the dayPhilosophy booksReviewA bold new project reimagines freedom in the areas of art, drugs, sex and climate, forging a collective conversation about how to make freedom work for all Cancel culture jeopardises the freedom of art to disturb. #MeToo has stopped people experimenting with the erotics of passivity. Sobriety is freer than drug taking. It’s probably appropriate, in a book about freedom by one of our most radical and forward-looking thinkers, that the conclusions should be at once so adventurous and so unexpectedly old fashioned.

ScienceThe truth about lying and laughingWhy are we so bad at spotting a lie, do we smile when no one is looking, and what's the funniest joke ever told? Richard Wiseman took a scientific approach to answering some age-old questionsOver the years, I have tried to unravel the truth about deception - investigating the telltale signs that give away a liar. There are some pointers to the evolutionary origins of deceit.

Book of the dayScience fiction booksReviewA widow finds herself in a sinister care home, in this meditation on ageing, trauma and identity from the author behind I’m Thinking of Ending Things Recently widowed, Penny is now living alone in the apartment she shared with her husband for many years. Her days seem longer than before, and her memory is not as reliable as it used to be. Her apartment, so familiar, seems alive with strange presences and Penny gradually becomes convinced that someone is watching her.