Culture

How Orwell gave propaganda a bad name

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

The latest sci-fi imagines what society will look like if we colonise space – a universe in which might is right and there are no good guys.

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel's novel follows the fortunes of a group of African migrants trying to get to Europe.

It might be a preposterous story, but we are shaped by the Adam and Eve myth - as Stephen Greenblatt's latest book explains.

New Humanist's top 10 culture pieces this year.