MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations
Latest editorial
Distant socialising
Among other things, writer JAN WOOLF reflects on statistics as an anaesthetic, disinfectant as the only Covid joke in town and how 'normal' has become a contentious word
CHANNELLING VERA LYNN: The Rolling Stones
[Jim Pietryga/Creative Commons]
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
IDEALLY THIS POSTER WOULD SHOW YOU THE WAY — spotted on London Underground before lockdown. An image that says it all. Well, if not all, quite a lot in an ideal world.
Much of the news this week has been delivered through the anaesthetising mutations of statistics, as if in lockdown we can do the rapid calculations required to know if we, or those close to us, are at risk.
Have you ever met anyone who is statistically suffering? Or is comforted by a set of figures?
Similar stories
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
JAN WOLF enjoys a British revival of the 1972 come of age farce/panto Pippin
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis