Michael OndaatjeReviewClaire Messud admires Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited new novel, Anil's Ghost Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury, £16.99, 311pp Buy it at BOL Early in Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient , the thief named Caravaggio inquires where he might find a Canadian nurse called Hana and is told she is in a nearby villa. "It's one they say has a ghost in the garden..." he learns. "She's got her own ghost, a burned patient.

Real MadridInterviewIsco: the bandy-legged magician who is finally able to walk tall for Real MadridSid LoweReal Madrid midfielder will probably start the Champions League final against Juventus in Cardiff after supporting roles from the bench in the previous two Isco has always had a wonky walk. “Odd,” he has called it: feet twisted, legs bendy, hips rolling, backside slung low – and still completely in control of the ball, never far from his foot.

Rodney Burford portrays Tony Hughes and Evan Peters portrays Jeffrey Dahmer in the 2022 Netflix series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Photograph: Netflix series 'Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story'Rodney Burford portrays Tony Hughes and Evan Peters portrays Jeffrey Dahmer in the 2022 Netflix series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Photograph: Netflix series 'Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story'US news This article is more than 1 year oldMother of Dahmer victim condemns Netflix series: ‘I don’t see how they can do that’This article is more than 1 year oldShirley Hughes, mother of Tony Hughes, an aspiring model who was among more than a dozen men murdered, speaks out

Health & wellbeingHand-washing aside, James Hamblin has not used soap for five years. He warns that our obsession with being clean is harming the microbiome that keeps us healthy When James Hamblin tells people he has not used soap in the shower for five years, they tend not to hold back in expressing their disgust. “It’s one of the few remaining things for which we feel fine telling someone that they’re gross,” he says.

Steve Rose on filmFilmThere’s furore over the skunk’s reported removal from the forthcoming Space Jam sequel. But animation’s history is filled with stereotypes that have rightly been erased They are cancelling everything! At least, if you’re a particular brand of conservative commentator they are. First they came for the Muppets and Dr Seuss, now they’re cancelling Pepé Le Pew! Yes, everyone’s favourite caricature-French cartoon skunk has reportedly been excised from the forthcoming Space Jam sequel.

Book of the dayPaul AusterReviewThe celebrated writer’s new novel, about a widowed septuagenarian, opens strongly but can’t resolve the vast number of threads it starts to spin I suspect anyone who was ever spellbound by the existential gumshoe shenanigans of The New York Trilogy – postmodernism in a fedora – will always take a chance on a new Paul Auster novel, however much he has tested that faith with the fiction he has produced in the decades since.

Lyndsay Heaton, one of Emil Gayed’s victims: ‘I knew something awful and wrong had happened to me.’ Photograph: Carly Earl/The GuardianMelissa Davey and Carly Earl look back at long days uncovering the shocking extent of the doctor’s botched surgeries – ‘It was all snowballing’ Ten years of Guardian Australia’s most impactful journalism How the Guardian shaped (and shook) Australian media – Full Story Watch Guardian Australia’s 10th birthday celebrations – video Support Guardian Australia journalism by making a contribution of any size by Caitlin Cassidy and Marni CordellOn 4 June 2018 Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey received a phone message from a woman making a shocking claim.

MusicReview(Soul:R)Is drum'n'bass in its final hour? That's the question posed by this trio of Mancunian veterans who, according to their MySpace, don't sound like would-be saviours of a scene: "We are three blokes who drink beer and moan a lot." Ten years since their heyday, Mistical are provocative about the state of drum'n'bass as MC DRS spits on the title track, "The same old structure that we've heard before, the same old samples now you're out the door"

Sea The StarsA champion horse can earn millions in prize money. But that's nothing compared with what it can make at stud. As Sea the Stars - one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time - retires at the peak of his career to an Irish stud farm, what does the future hold for him?What an odd town Newmarket is. A town that runs on expensive horseflesh and cheap alcohol. A town of nightclubs and early-morning gallops, with the same very thin men sometimes managing to attend both.

Burt BacharachObituaryBurt Bacharach obituarySongwriter whose hits, including I Say a Little Prayer and Walk on By, became classics of easy-listening pop Burt Bacharach, master of pop songwriting, dies aged 94 A lifetime of magic moments: Burt Bacharach in pictures Few songwriters have been able to enjoy hits across six decades, as well as the bonus of a dramatic revival of interest in their work during the later years of their careers.