Culture

Land loneliness

To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed

Kelsey Day

Local tensions simmer amid a potato salad contest at the Czech-Polish border

14 minutes

A novel kind of music

So-called ‘classical’ music was as revolutionary as the modern novel in its storytelling, harmony and depth

Joel Sandelson

An artist endeavours to bring the Moon down to Earth in a ritual of yearning

5 minutes

Creating art that was aware of itself – and the viewer – made Manet the first modernist

15 minutes

The adoption paradox

Even happy families cannot avoid the reality – my reality – that adoption is predicated on transacting the life of a child

Fiona Sampson

Preserving memories of a Japanese internment camp, and the land where it stood

8 minutes

Performance-enhancing vices

Selfishness channels ambition, envy drives competition, pride aids the win. Does it take a bad person to be a good athlete?

Sabrina Little

To capture grief in poetry is to describe the ineffable. Here’s why Tennyson did it best

8 minutes

Flirtation, negotiation and vodka – or how to couple up in 1950s rural Poland

5 minutes

Her blazing world

Margaret Cavendish’s boldness and bravery set 17th-century society alight, but is she a feminist poster-girl for our times?

Francesca Peacock