Culture Digest

‘Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters’ – Paul Kingsnorth's Beast (2016)

Three beastly new novels. Part one: Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent

From Teju Cole's favourite albums to the burkini ban: what to read this weekend

Frozen margaritas and other investments in foolishness

From Vladimir Nabokov's queerness to John Cage jamming with Sun Ra: what to read this weekend

Coney Island and Silicon Valley

The precarity of the Minor League Baseball player ... and writers

From the Spiritualist origins of Ghostbusters to an interview with Luc Sante: what to read this weekend

Gianfranco Rosi’s brilliant, difficult documentary addressing the migrant crisis

The patriarchal house of cards underlying the Turkish coup and Brexit

From the concept of human nature to post-Brexit erotica: what to read this weekend

On the singer’s glam debut album 

The long-awaited biopic of cult writer Jeremiah 'Terminator' LeRoy

Part one of this week's Culture Digest focuses on a newly translated book tracing Turkey’s hazardous history

Part three of Bert Rebhandl’s film picks: food for thought in Naomi Kawase’s latest

Thomas Vinterberg’s return to form: part two of the best new film releases selected by Bert Rebhandl

Bert Rebhandl selects three of the best new film releases: part 1, a Greek maritime comedy

From Atatürk and Turkish nationalism in art to the enduring creepiness of Bruce Conner: what to read this weekend

On Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, the critics’ favourite at this year's Cannes Film Festival

Black Lives Matter, the Chilcot report, music and violence: what to read this weekend