Opinion

In Down to Earth with Zac Efron a better body and world are but a questionable guru and a luxury holiday away

 

The Psychic Soviet, newly reissued by Akashic Books, proves the essayist’s words are as relevant as ever – though he hasn’t apparently lived up to them 

A fawning new Netflix documentary about the iconic astrologer shies away from the more problematic aspects of his success 

Amidst cycles of protest, Zoé Samudzi considers Mati Diop’s film in which young men ‘return’ to the shores of Dakar from their fatal attempt to emigrate overseas

The artist’s far-seeing experiments with digital avatars and viral antibodies help us better understand ourselves

It’s time to reckon with a US founding father who waged genocidal warfare against Indigenous nations 

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

The artist’s ambitious fourth studio album is a genre-bending journey of defiance and radiant elation

Take advantage of 'crisitunities' to defend the rights of workers - or exploit them

A work by Georg Herold at Frankfurt's Städel Museum causes a debate on art museum's authority to judge on issues of racism

2020Solidarity/Between Bridges is selling artist-made posters to raise funds for the city’s beleaguered clubs, performers and organizers

The artist’s works may embody the ‘values’ of revolution, but heroine-worship of the mass blunts its struggle

In the author’s debut novel, ‘the threat of a sharp edge is on every page’ 

‘First Cow’, the director’s seventh feature film, which began streaming 10 July, offers a humanistic alternative to the grand myths of Manifest Destiny

The latest game in the popular series could mark a sea change in a market long dominated by bigotry 

After years of controversy around Zaha Hadid’s doomed proposal, Kuma’s sober design arrived on time and within budget – only for the games to be postponed 

The Christie’s Paris sale of two stolen Igbo sculptures is proof of a racist double standard in European restitution law

During the Troubles in Ireland, Darran Anderson remembers finding sanctuary in County Derry’s amusement arcades 

A statistician and a novelist on the links between dataviz and storytelling

From the stadium to the gallery, both attempt to invoke a sense of extreme concentration