Culture

The 80s can teach us more than how to wear spandex

Young people are fascinated by the 80s – but they should remember the politics as well as the fashion

Elon Musk claims to be inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide. But did he understand the book? Our future may depend on it

As the singer releases her latest album, Mayhem, let’s celebrate her as a champion of queerness, reinvention and disobeying the algorithm

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