Culture

Gessica Généus’s feature film debut tells a touching story about a young woman’s struggle to find hope in a country full of despair and violence

Matt Lloyd Turner reviews IFFR’s Tiger Shorts Competition – programming focused on collectivity – to see what changes when viewed on a computer screen

A new book of Derek McCormack's collected writing captures his irreverent take on fashion, from Kathy Acker to Jean-Paul Gaultier and the late Thierry Mugler

As Memoria opens across the UK, the acclaimed Thai director talks to Rory O’Connor about casting Tilda Swinton and the power of the big screen

From the red/blue pill symbolism to the trans allegory, McKenzie Wark muses on the real-life narratives surrounding the simulated world of The Matrix

In his first book, the author offers a scholarly account of the life and work of Minoru Yamasaki – the esteemed architect of the World Trade Center

The writer reflects on how secretly loving pool led him down a path of self-education

In a new translation of her innovative interviews, the writer exposes the layers behind being a critic in the 20th century

Collected in a new volume, Hubbs’s new photographs transform humiliation and degradation into pillars of personal power

In his newest hallucinatory animation, ‘Life After BOB’, the artist questions self-determination in an algorithmic age

The latest experimental thriller from the Booker Prize winner propagates its subjects’ paranoia within the reader’s mind

Esmé Hogeveen reviews the writer's new book Replace Me (2021), which tackles replaceability against a backdrop of employment precarity in the arts and academia  

Latifa Echakhch, Michael Krebber, Xie Nanxing, Tobias Pils and Shahzia Sikander share the books they frequently return to for inspiration

The group of art students – assembled by Ming Wong – negotiates the boundary between engagement and appropriation

Sasha Frere-Jones pens a letter to Todd Haynes, the director of the new documentary, which charts the band’s illustrious career

The activist and videomaker’s adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide (1928) is a production of pure absurdity in the face of mortality

The author of ‘The Netanyahus’ speaks with Lincoln Michel about his latest work and how his definition of ‘truth’ changes with every novel

The UK-based writer's book This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century (2021) shines a light on the ways women artists have defined their lives on their own terms

Juliet Jacques reviews the writer and activist’s new book, which tackles head-on the insurgent culture war around trans liberation and condemns media misrepresentations 

Writers Juliet Jacques and Isabel Waidner recent books track the legal recognition of transgender people in the UK