Culture

My boho, muffin-making Iranian dad

People often make assumptions about my dad. Being from a country that’s misrepresented has given me a lifelong radar for nuance

We talk to the veteran human rights campaigner about free speech and Palestine Action

Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of pioneering US band Bad Religion, talks music and rebellion

A one-of-a-kind book by a one-of-a-kind writer

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