Culture

How the 1980s fashion boom shaped our turbulent present

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.

Javier Cercas' "novel without fiction" is a fascinating analysis of a nation in denial.

The return of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy marks a revival of “nice” reality TV, after a decade of screaming matches and controversy