Describe a global crisis in 600 words? Too hard. But isn’t everything else irrelevant right now?

The weightlessness of the iconic film helps alleviate the oppressive pull of reality

For David Grubbs, an onrush of music has led to a rethinking of musical ‘speed’ itself

Retro pleasures are a smokescreen that fails to conceal the painfully quick dismantling of institutions that have lasted centuries

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

Recent events have shown how deeply our lives are enmeshed with those of others – with the potential for both support and harm

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Little Richard, Édouard Glissant and unapologetic Blackness

Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality