Culture Digest

On Jérôme Bel's Gala at HAU, Berlin 

On Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival

On Robert Greene’s new meta-documentary Kate Plays Christine

This week’s Culture Digest focuses on three new film releases. First up, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey

Eduardo Williams’s new documentary focuses on the cruelty of the job market for young people in three different countries

Errol Morris’s new documentary is a touching portrait of photographer Elsa Dorfman

This week’s Culture Digest rounds up some highlights from the 54th New York Film Festival

The final part of this week's art and trauma-themed Digest: A new play from Adam Brace at London's Almeida Theatre

Part two of this week's art and trauma-themed Culture Digest: 'Bedlam', a new exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection

The final part of this week's Culture Digest looks at two recently reissued books by Eileen Myles

The second instalment of this week's Culture Digest looks at the latest book from experimental Chilean author Alejandro Zambra

The first of this week's three book columns looks at the second instalment of Rachel Cusk's trilogy

The final part of this week's Culture Digest: some favourite documentaries available online

The second part of this week's Culture Digest: some of the best archival documentaries freely available online

This week's Culture Digest focuses on the power of documentaries: first up, an interview with the producer of a film profiling a Sicilian judge called ‘the most threatened man in Italy’

The final instalment of Patrick Langley's digest of recent monster books: Patrick Ness’s, A Monster Calls

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

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

Frozen margaritas and other investments in foolishness

Coney Island and Silicon Valley