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

In 1970s London, a straight-laced civil servant led a secret double life. His diaries offer a window onto a vanished world

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel is published in English for the first time

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

Lok Rang Noor Art is breathing new life into a traditional "woman's dance"

An exhibition of objects from the French Revolution contains echoes of today's volatile world

A major retrospective of digital art illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world

This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird fiction

Meet the older people fighting discrimination. They might teach the rest of us how to live a good life

Crowds are often portrayed as risky, but they also have the potential to bring joy and liberation, as Dan Hancox explores in a new book