Monique Roffey’s novel The Mermaid of Black Conch is set on a small Caribbean island where David works as a fisherman. One day, he sees a mermaid, huge and powerful, who is drawn to his guitar playing. David wonders if he has smoked too much spliff. The Mermaid is a magical realist novel, which combines...
This, the seventh outing, sees right wingers marching on the street and tech empires trying to buy into the state.
This might sound like some awful twee collection of old-fashioned stories, but it isn’t
This new Netflix film, about a servant in India who works his was to the top, has been compared to Parasite—with good reason
In this new Netflix documentary, a timeline of events unfold during the period of the “crack epidemic” which began in the early 1980s in US cities.
It’s a Sin is both a joyful celebration of self expression—and an angry tribute to those whose lives were betrayed by homophobia
Bamous—a new BBC comedy show—is a cleverly constructed satire of attitudes towards black people within the BBC and wider society.
This new BBC4 documentary by producer Questlove looks at six seminal tracks. The first is a reminder of some of Kanye West’s best work, writes Sarah Bates
One Night in Miami imagines a real life meeting between heroes of the Civil Rights Movement—and brings intense debates to life
This is a brilliant album from the East Midlands two-piece Sleaford Mods
Using newly revealed documents, MLK/FBI delves into how the US ruling class sought to undermine the Civil Rights movement
Michael Crowley tells a story of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants fleeing war, poverty, domestic violence and other horrors crossing continents to try to find a better life
