All hail Lady Gaga, the weird sister of pop!
As the singer releases her latest album, Mayhem, let’s celebrate her as a champion of queerness, reinvention and disobeying the algorithm
Culture
Palestine’s literary scene is thriving
British-Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh talks to us about how Palestinians around the world build a dialogue through literature
Book review: The Diaries of Mr Lucas
In 1970s London, a straight-laced civil servant led a secret double life. His diaries offer a window onto a vanished world
Book review: A Nose and Three Eyes
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel is published in English for the first time
Dead malls and dreams
All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?
Meet India’s revolutionary gender fluid dance troupe
Lok Rang Noor Art is breathing new life into a traditional "woman's dance"
Relics of a revolution
An exhibition of objects from the French Revolution contains echoes of today's volatile world
Into the ether
A major retrospective of digital art illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world
Book review: Absolution
This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird fiction
Age rebels, unite!
Meet the older people fighting discrimination. They might teach the rest of us how to live a good life