Culture

Running on Moscow time

A 30-hour train journey from Vienna to Moscow offers the chance to connect with the Russian past: contraband, bribery and all.

Annie Ernaux's memoir is strikingly honest about the mechanics of memory.

Two new books about 1980s fashion magazines reveal the conservative politics lurking beneath radical looks.

Michael Ondaatje's latest novel explores the unreliability of memory.

The writer and musician Akala has become an essential voice in Britain’s debate on race, class and identity.

The recent renaissance in nature writing also revives an overlooked connection with fascism.

Today, we associate propaganda with totalitarian states – but it also enables people to challenge power from below.

Spotify offers fans unparalleled access to music – but is it flattening culture into an incentivised blandness?

Why is our popular culture so obsessed with the end of the world?

Ann Quin is the latest author from the English literary avant-garde to undergo a modern reappraisal – and it is long overdue.