Culture

The most remarkable thing about ‘The Mysterious Correspondent’ is the way it deals directly with gay and lesbian characters

With the current debate on art institutions’ reliance on private funding, the Dutch artist teaches us how to avoid becoming complicit in a company’s shady activities 

Awarding the Nobel to a Milosevic apologist, splitting the Booker Prize, and the death of the Western canon’s most ardent defender: what is the political function of literary culture today?

Radical feminist Valerie Solanas is the ambivalent guiding force in Chu’s debut book Females

In ‘All That Beauty’, it’s not a matter of seeing better, or more clearly; it’s a matter of seeing more widely and wildly

‘Walking alone, he denied himself short-cuts in exemplary style’

A new film documenting the destruction of an east London community centre drills into the deformation of Muslim subjects by the state

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

The restless, rageful ‘No Home Record’ lures as much as it discomfits

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

The newly reissued novel maps the intimate spatial connections between fascism and patriarchy in postwar Austria

A new book wants to understand the individuals – and identities – beneath the ‘somewhat derogatory label’

In ‘Coventry’, events seem to happen to somebody else, to a person Cusk repeatedly exposes and judges

Reckoning with the legacy of Jim Harrison, whose writing portrayed women like meals – meant to give pleasure and comfort, without having any hunger themselves

Like Vivian Maier’s photography, Christina Hesselholdt’s novel embraces digression and relishes humanity in its multiplicity

Diana Hamilton reflects on the dual urges to be beautiful and well-reviewed – even when you want to reject both desires

‘Militant Desire’, a new series of screenings at London’s Gasworks, revives consciousness-raising discussions

Ian F. Martin traces the life and career of the pioneering Japanese musician, on the 50th anniversary of his first record

‘Movies don’t change, and I do, and I don’t. Memory isn’t a choice and, like everyone, I forget way more than I can recall, necessarily.’

Recent R&B albums by Kelela, Lafawndah, serpentwithfeet and Solange tune to newly radiant blues