“What am I doing here? Do I belong here? Did I make a mistake coming here?” Rapper and actor Riz Ahmed asks these questions in The Long Goodbye, a livestreamed show based on his 2020 album of the same name. The star was first seen as an acting talent to watch when he played one...
Judas and the Black Messiah tells the true story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. It captures the spirit of a revolutionary
Slowthai’s new album TYRON is one of two halves—the first brash and loud, the second more introspective
In an era when many artists shun political affiliations, veteran saxophonist Archie Shepp makes a point of wearing his on his sleeve
Can’t Get You Out of My Head looks far more interesting than many things on TV, but it puts the blame on ordinary people
Hurricane Season, Fernando Melchor’s first book to be translated into English, is a beautiful piece of writing and a compelling mystery. We begin with a body being discovered: the Witch is dead. Over the course of the story – a beautifully constructed novella of barely more than 200 pages of brutal, at times ugly, yet...
Frederick Engels used the words “social murder” to describe a situation when “the class which at present holds social and political control places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death”. John Ashton is a well-respected doctor, once in charge of Liverpool’s public health, and...
Netflix’s newest fantasy series blends Brazilian folklore with environmental issues to bring an enchanting fable
Bloodlands sees James Nesbitt star as a cop on the hunt for a serial killer
The second episode of Trump Takes On the World airs this week. It’s a glimpse inside the ruthless workings of US imperialism
Many reviews of Bridgerton tend to dismiss the Netflix blockbuster as a raunchy version of Downton Abbey. It certainly treads a well-worn costume drama theme—coming out to society, the Bath season and its obligatory balls, romantic flirtations and the marriage that must surely ensue. But there is more to this series than immediately meets the...
This is a story about how the “Glamour Boys”—ten gay and bisexual MPs in the 1930s— became convinced of the deadly threat the Nazis posed to minorities years before most other MPs. Bob Bernays, Bob Boothby, Ronnie Cartland, Victor Cazalet, Harry Crookshank, Jack Macnamara, Harold Nicolson, Philip Sassoon, Jim Thomas and Ronnie Tree worked to...
