Culture

During the turbulent summer of 2020, the filmmakers decided on decentring the human in their practice 

The musician’s retrospective album proves he has long been ahead of his time – and out of this world

In three stories, the German filmmaker and writer bears witness to the tentativeness of history

Charles Aubin, Aruna D’Souza, Brendan Fernandes, Ligia Lewis and Paul Maheke take stock of the performance world in the wake of COVID-19 

A new publishing project misunderstands the anti-patriarchal motivations behind historical pen names

Primer (2004) asks what happens when history is always hanging in the balance

Revisiting the author’s prescient 'manifesto for a fair fight' - first published as an essay in 2014 - now out as a full-length book

The author of Glitch Feminism on correcting the cyberfeminist canon, the Black trauma at the root of memes and why online space is still ‘real’

The writer and musician’s latest album, Mandinga Times, is a bracing ode to apocalyptic collapse

The album is a timely affirmation for the global African diaspora, but it can’t be accepted as a universal representation of global Blackness

Pop Smoke’s posthumous release is an authoritarian play on the senses

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

The American poet – whose ‘Memory’ is now out from Siglio Press – on the poetics of synesthesia

The artist’s ambitious fourth studio album is a genre-bending journey of defiance and radiant elation

In the author’s debut novel, ‘the threat of a sharp edge is on every page’ 

The authors discuss diary-keeping, photography and motherhood

A statistician and a novelist on the links between dataviz and storytelling

 An exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book

Renowned poet Joan Retallack reads Adnan’s poetry

Omar Berrada on the artist’s polymathic imagination