Culture

A woman wearing an orange mini dress leans on a white car as she poses outside the United Trading Company headquarters in Accra, Ghana, 1971

Tropical modernism

A new exhibition sheds light on the attempt to build – literally – a new postcolonial order in India and Ghana

Rush hour in Bangkok, Thailand. Image: Tomasz Swatowski

Review: Carmageddon

Car ownership is an emotive, and increasingly political, subject. A new book makes the case for decreasing our reliance.

Still from '3 Body Problem'

Alien civilisations

The Chinese science fiction epic "3 Body Problem" comes to Netflix amid geopolitical rivalry and intrigue

The “茶, चाय, Tea” exhibition is at the Horniman museum, London, until 7 July

How the cuppa changed the world

A new exhibition at London's Horniman Museum shows the central role of tea in bringing pleasure and pain to people around the globe

Rural by Rebecca Smith

Book review: Rural

This exploration of working-class life in the British countryside is a welcome corrective to industrial history

My Hijacking by Martha Hodes

Book review: My Hijacking

Martha Hodes recalls the hijacking of her plane by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, more than fifty years ago

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