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Stream onTelevisionReviewDressed as a 6ft 4in blue insect, Peter Serafinowicz’s superhero is a throwback to the Golden Age of Comic Books – but with everything just a fraction off What is it? A superhero series, because Lord knows, we need another one of those at the moment. Why you’ll love it: As superhero series go, it’s less po-faced than the 27 or so currently clogging up Netflix. More importantly, it’s finally a decent platform for Peter Serafinowicz, one of our finest comic talents, but someone who has struggled to be the centre of attention in the past.

ArtInterview'I love staring at one spot for six hours!' Life models on the secrets of disrobingTim JonzeWhat sort of person would stand naked and still for hours, often in agony? Nude models talk about how tough yet life-changing the work can be, even when posing for hen parties The first time Dominic Blake took his clothes off in front of an art class was, as you might imagine, a daunting experience.

The ObserverColombia This article is more than 2 years oldColombian family win award for world’s best cookbookThis article is more than 2 years oldMother-and-daughter team scoop gong at Gourmand awards in Paris for volume of traditional leaf-wrapped recipes A Colombian mother and daughter’s celebration of their country’s traditional leaf-wrapped dishes has been named best cookbook in the world at the Gourmand awards in Paris. Colombia’s envueltos are part of a culinary heritage that stretches across much of Latin America, from the tamales of Mexico and Guatemala to the humitas of Chile.

Observer book of the weekBiography booksReviewAn elegant and painstakingly researched biography of the 007 author attempts to strip away the novels to reveal the intriguing figure beneath Nicholas Shakespeare’s elegant biography of the James Bond author Ian Fleming takes its subtitle from a journalist’s observation, quoted halfway through, that its subject was “for a moment of time, a complete man” while working for British naval intelligence in the second world war.

OpinionImran Khan This article is more than 8 months oldIt’s no wonder that many in Pakistan now fear for the fate of Imran Khan This article is more than 8 months oldFarzana ShaikhThe arrest of the former PM is yet another chapter in the conflict between the country’s all-powerful army and political class The arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan on charges of corruption has sent shock waves throughout Pakistan and the wider world, raising the prospect of an imminent disintegration of the country’s fragile social and political fabric.

‘After a lot of problems with operations I was limping. I couldn’t do anything without pain. I was a little afraid,’ says Marco van Basten. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Observer‘After a lot of problems with operations I was limping. I couldn’t do anything without pain. I was a little afraid,’ says Marco van Basten. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The ObserverThe ObserverSoccerInterviewMarco van Basten: ‘It was a very big fall and a really dark time’Donald McRaeDutch great played on until, aged 28, he could stand the pain from his damaged ankle no more.

Book of the dayFood and drink booksReviewAre coffee and salt so bad for us? Are calorie counts on menus worthwhile? An experts explains why so much of what we’re told about food is wrong Would you automatically eat more healthily if you knew the calorie content of every meal you ate? Boris Johnson certainly seems to think so, and he is not alone. One of the elements of the UK government’s new obesity strategy is calorie labelling on the menus of restaurant and takeaway chains.

Donald Trump, then 45, with contestants in the 1991 Look of the Year competition, the year he was a judgeIn the early 90s, Donald Trump judged the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it by Lucy Osborne, Harry Davies and Stephanie Kirchgaessner. A special investigationOn 1 September 1991, a large private yacht cruised towards the Statue of Liberty.

OpinionSex work This article is more than 1 year oldThe tide is finally turning in Italy in favour of protecting women in the sex tradeThis article is more than 1 year oldJulie BindelA bill to legalise sex work, and criminalise the buying of it, follows the successful Nordic model I’ve just returned from a conference in Rome called Prostitution: Is Italy ready for the Nordic model?. The event was the first of its kind to be held in the Italian senate and it has caused some controversy.