My earliest reading memory Not my earliest reading memory, exactly, but my earliest memory of reading with avid enjoyment: The Three Investigators mysteries, a series of kids’ books about three juvenile detectives operating in far-off…
Malevolent spirits be damned – theatres can be haunted simply by the memory of bad plays and perhaps unscary horror in particular. The last time London’s Ambassadors theatre aimed to give audiences the shivers, with The Enfield Haunting, it…
In 2017, 10 years after Susan Orlean profiled Caltech-trained physicist turned professional origami artist Robert Lang for the New Yorker, she attended the OrigamiUSA convention to take Lang’s workshop on folding a “Taiwan goldfish”. I was…
At the turn of the decade, gay male and non-binary pop stars seemed poised to take pop music by storm. Lil Nas X broke out with Old Town Road – which blew up on TikTok, sold about 18.5m copies and remains tied with Shaboozey’s A Bar Song…
Nemo made history by becoming the first non-binary performer to win Eurovision in 2024
The winner of last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Nemo, has said they are returning their trophy in protest over Israel’s continued participation in the…
Art, jeu & société (Art, games & society) is an art initiative that explores practices related to gaming in order to raise awareness and address contemporary issues. For its second edition, Side Quest for the Real examines society through the…
On December 12, 2025, MACRO—Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome—reopens to the public with a renewed institutional vision under the artistic direction of Cristiana Perrella. The museum returns as a polyphonic organism, responsive to the…