Arts and culture
One silver lining of the pandemic is that we’ve all had a lot more time to appreciate the very best things to read, watch and listen to.
From our Slow Reviews of cultural artefacts that changed the world to our ThinkIns with bestselling authors, we’ve got a whole host of content on arts and culture, which you’ll find below.
Our ThinkIns
Greatest albums revisited: does music need a new canon?
Creative Sensemaker Live – The day the music died: can British music recover from Covid?
How to write with award winning poet Anthony Anaxagorou
In conversation with Elizabeth Day
In conversation with Deborah Frances-White and Nikesh Shukla
A House Through Time: a ThinkIn with David Olusoga & Melanie Backe-Hansen
A Digital ThinkIn with Jon Ronson
Slow reviews
The books, films, records, paintings and other cultural artefacts that changed the world around them
Book club
A ThinkIn with David Baddiel on Jews Don’t Count
A ThinkIn with Ashley Audrain on The Push
Isabel Wilkerson
A digital ThinkIn with Matt Haig
Tortoise Book Club with Kate Mosse on The Burning Chambers
Tortoise Book Club with Robert Webb on Come Again
Tortoise Book Club with Stuart Maconie on The Nanny State Made Me
Tortoise Book Club with Helen Lewis on Difficult Women
Creative Sensemaker
Welcome to Creative Sensemaker, our weekly guide to all that’s best in culture and the arts – movies, streaming, books, music, galleries and much else.
Jagger’s edge
Silence is golden
Return of the King
Creative Sensemaker Live
Creative Sensemaker – #AllTogetherNow: is social media the new cultural venue?
Creative Sensemaker Live: will the great book comeback last?
Creative Sensemaker Live: reasons to be cheerful in 2021
Creative Sensemaker Live – The day the music died: can British music recover from Covid?
The future of history
We consider what history should look like in the 21st Century – as a subject of study, but also an area of action and protest.
Policing black music
How Drill – the sound of Chicago’s streets – rewrote the rules of the music business
Sensemaker: Dignity and discord
What just happened
The Velvet revolution
Rachael Blackmore’s triumph in the Grand National was also a victory for generations of female jockeys – many of them little-known – who struggled against the patriarchal racing establishment for the most basic rights on the racecourse
The fool’s gold of Greensill
The supply chain financing offered by Lex Greensill seemed like a useful tool. But its shiny appeal was deceptive – and the fallout has potentially serious implications for politics, government and fintech. To help you through the thickets, here’s a step-by-step guide.
Back to life
We’ve been looking at how we can bring back the joy of life – big festivals, top-level sport, and dating
Sensemaker: Dignity and discord
What just happened
The Velvet revolution
Rachael Blackmore’s triumph in the Grand National was also a victory for generations of female jockeys – many of them little-known – who struggled against the patriarchal racing establishment for the most basic rights on the racecourse
The fool’s gold of Greensill
The supply chain financing offered by Lex Greensill seemed like a useful tool. But its shiny appeal was deceptive – and the fallout has potentially serious implications for politics, government and fintech. To help you through the thickets, here’s a step-by-step guide.
Year of the Screen
From Zoom calls to gaming sessions, from Netflix binges to smartphone-led protests, this is how 2020 panned out
Sensemaker: Dignity and discord
What just happened
The Velvet revolution
Rachael Blackmore’s triumph in the Grand National was also a victory for generations of female jockeys – many of them little-known – who struggled against the patriarchal racing establishment for the most basic rights on the racecourse
The fool’s gold of Greensill
The supply chain financing offered by Lex Greensill seemed like a useful tool. But its shiny appeal was deceptive – and the fallout has potentially serious implications for politics, government and fintech. To help you through the thickets, here’s a step-by-step guide.