JS Bach: where to start with his music
‘The immortal god of harmony”: that’s what Beethoven, no less, called Johann Sebastian Bach. “Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder,” is how Schumann put it, …
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A game of few laughs: can football and sitcom ever mix?
No sooner had the extended Premier League season ended than another footballing story started. You might not have noticed, but Apple TV’s culture-clash sitcom Ted Lasso, about an American NFL …
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‘I feel like she’s penetrating my soul’: the power of Our Bodies Back
Under a blanket of white cloud on a Montreal rooftop, dancer Axelle “Ebony” Munezero’s hands clasp over her mouth while potent words ring out in the voice of poet jessica …
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JJ Gonson’s best photograph: a smile from Elliott Smith
In 1985, I was in line at a Hüsker Dü concert and started talking to this guy who had started a fanzine. I had no idea what a fanzine was …
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Trevor Noah on the RNC: Republicans are ‘seeing the glass of bleach half full’
Trevor NoahThe coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the school reopenings, work, and life in the US, but you wouldn’t know it from the first night of the Republican …
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Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker for The Discomfort of Evening
The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their “visceral and virtuosic” debut novel, The …
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Why do birds sing? Because they’re all on drugs
Name: Jazz. Age: Much older than you think. Appearance: Small, feathery, fond of worms. Sorry, I’m not good at jazz lingo. What does “feathery” mean? It means “covered in feathers, …
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