Culture

‘Each hypnotic frame of No Home Movie lasts just long enough to allow our minds to wander, summoning recollections of domestic spaces’

‘It is Björk’s ambivalence to human relations that makes her liberality so poignant’

‘This is, perhaps, the best ending of any film, ever’

‘George Michael has always told the truth. But I don’t believe that truth. Freedom is invisible. It’s just a line in an ad’

‘A year after its release, it was still a huge dancefloor anthem and I was entering a world that would dismantle what I thought I knew about life up until that point’

‘I first saw it in a private screening room in my college library, deep in the suburbs of New England. It changed my life.’

‘By its closing scenes, I felt compelled to stand up and clap’

‘Maybe speaking about it will free me, and maybe this means I can get rid of it’

The Throbbing Gristle member and multimedia artist discusses a beloved instrument which has become a lifelong companion

Talk of the Booker Winning-novel as ‘baffling’ and ‘tough’ suggests such journalists may be more trained in the Burns-ian method than they think

The artist reflects on the sounds that have shaped their thinking

At Gasworks, London, the sea is an archive of disaster, but one containing depths of potential 

The artist-investigator tunes his work to the undocumented, the surveilled, immigrants and prisoners; those fleeing the talons of the state

Provincial landscapes mask creeping violence in three new novels by Emma Glass, Sophie Mackintosh and Fiona Mozley 

At the Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Mónica Savirón and María Palacios Cruz's programme of works by neglected women artists

Paul Rekret surveys ‘chill wave’, the mellow pop, sepia-toned indie and tropical dance tropes in new music releases 

With his new book How to Write an Autobiographical Novel published today, the writer shares the books that have influenced him

Two controversial events suggest a precarious relationship between China’s culture industry and the state’s soft power project

The artist reveals the books that have influenced him 

Édouard Glissant's 1961 play Monsieur Toussaint reimagined as a slam battle, swerving between Haitian Creole and French (for a performance at the Ghetto Biennale)