Culture

A century ago, the novelists Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann depicted a world recovering from war and pandemic. What can we learn from translating their works today?

The new documentary is packed with original footage and voice recordings from the late artist

Shiv Kotecha on the long career of playback singer Asha Bhosle 

In the latest episode of frieze’s Autumn Sessions, the two friends play and discuss records that create or bridge distance

frieze editor Andrew Durbin speaks to the author about his new essay on Bollywood for the November/December issue

The author’s latest novel, ‘The Silence’, is full of questions with obvious answers

The prolific Beat poet, who died aged 86 on 25 October, left behind a powerful and ever-urgent call to action in her Revolutionary Letters

Taken over a decade and published in 2001, Singh’s book documents the life of her friend Mona Ahmed 

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter

An exhibition in Edinburgh honouring Ray Harryhausen gives film historians the chance to see Medusa, the Kraken, dinosaurs and giant sea creatures

Tourmaline’s films speak a simple truth: Black, queer and trans people were always here and always will be

The author's new novel is a smart, sharply observed critique of literary tropes and the art world

‘Frog Pond Splash’, published 20 November by Siglio Press, presents four decades of the artist’s mail-art exchanges with poet William S. Wilson

The winner of the New Academy Prize remembers how Fanon's legendary book has changed her reading and writing life

With ‘Men and Apparitions’ – her first novel to be published in the UK since 1999 – Tillman deep-dives into photography and its lovers

Can the story of performer and activist Paul Robeson help us reconcile universalism with Black progress? 

At Museum Frieder Bruda’s Salon Berlin, the artist reflects on book burning during the Nazi regime

Shot in Cambridge, the artist’s latest film interlaces histories of laziness, from Johnny Mercer to Audre Lorde

Presented in partnership with BMW, Lianne La Havas gave an exclusive solo performance followed by a live conversation with frieze’s Jennifer Higgie for a special episode of podcast Bow Down

At PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, the artist presents contrasting works on paper that recall Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of montage