How much does where you grow up shape your chances? Our new tool lets you compare postcodes across education, health and poverty – and see the childhood lottery mapped across the country. observer.co.uk/news/national…

Poetry books of the month: bullets and blooms Ian McMillan’s winningly absurdist Red River Valley goes to war with Wordsworth’s daffodils, while Jason B Crawford tackles violence and injustice in his urgent second collection YEET! ✍️ @JadeCuttle bit.ly/4BjMOMg

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Wildwood, Clayface, Possible Love and more A stop-motion fantasy epic from the creators of Coraline is an extraordinary achievement. Plus, can watch-through-your-fingers body horror Clayface revive the ailing comic book genre? ✍️ @wendyide bit.ly/4i4cMvG

We may have passed peak manosphere. But what’s next for men? The decline of the hyper-masculine and misogynistic movement led by Andrew Tate frees the male character to reinvent itself ✍️ Geoff Dyer bit.ly/4BnHNlK

From father to son: what our dads taught us Eight writers share the life lessons they learned from the men who raised them ✍️ Luke Kennard, Colin Grant, Michael Rosen, Raymond Antrobus, Andrew Anthony, Will Harris, Mark Haddon, Frank Cottrell-Boyce bit.ly/4zo495z

How Robert Ryman became the master of white The Barbican’s exhilarating retrospective explodes the myth that the American artist painted only plain canvases – and reveals the many multitudes contained in whiteness ✍️ @LauraCummingArt bit.ly/4za7EfC

Jon Fosse welcomes you to the Vaim Hotel The second instalment in the Norwegian author’s Vaim trilogy is a Kafkaesque farce about a hotel guest perplexed by his very presence in a strange fishing village ✍️ @chris_power bit.ly/4dTbeCe

The big picture: making a scene in Abuja Photographer Paul Abbah has his subject ‘exaggerate everything’ in the harmattan dust of Nigeria’s capital ✍️ @killianfox0 bit.ly/3TRK5ZN

Bohemian rhapsody: reasons to love the new Boho aesthetic Boho is back, updated for the modern era with a touch of toughness and enduring appeal ✍️ @helenseamons bit.ly/3Wq4e9X

Nigel Slater’s recipe for baked apple ice-cream A delightful ice-cream made with sharp cooking apples, perfect for autumn celebrations ✍️ @NigelSlater bit.ly/4khVqwG

Why has Portuguese red wine become so sweet? The incredible success of Porta 6 has inspired a wave of copycats. Fortunately, drier alternatives are available ✍️ @Daveydaibach bit.ly/4jvZ85I

The PHP glitch identified by AI should serve as a wake-up call The technology spotted a vulnerability in the internet deemed too complex for a human hacker to exploit – triggering a global scramble to fix it bit.ly/3WGFESi

Brain implants and AI are solving the consciousness conundrum bit.ly/4idbugC

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Nobody Wants This – over the hot rabbi? Fall in love with the hot sister instead bit.ly/4z6VnZr

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‘Throwing spaghetti at the wall’: Panicking Republicans launch barrage of personal attacks bit.ly/4znQWtv

Ilford Boy – coming out in a blaze of glorious one-liners bit.ly/3UbeAdg