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Chiara Rimella

Entertainment

Choice cuts

Our inventory of cultural unmissables includes a tense paella western, an original Ukrainian crime drama and a collection of top-grade South African sonics.

  • Issue #163
  • 6 min read
Choice cuts
Culture

Choice cuts

What’s on the cultural agenda for the months ahead? Ten in-the-know critics reveal the films, television shows, music, exhibitions, dance events and theatre offerings that should be on your radar.

  • Issue #161
  • 10 min read
Choice cuts
Culture

Hit squad

From a magical-realist tale of life in a South Korean village to the latest beats to get the dance floor jumping, we survey this month’s cultural highlights.

  • Issue #161
  • 7 min read
Two men emerging from a subway station entrance with Korean signage and digital displays
Culture

Future projections

Curious about your next favourite book, film or TV series? We speak to industry insiders to uncover the passion projects and acclaimed releases that will be exciting audiences in 2023 and beyond.

  • The Forecast #13
  • 14 min read
Barbara Epler, president of New Directions publishing house, poses in her downtown Manhattan office surrounded by books and papers.
Film

Move closer

From a Canadian popstar’s emotional return to a beloved portraitist’s political roots, we survey the season’s cultural highlights.

  • Issue #158
  • 8 min read
Two people lounging on deck chairs aboard a luxury yacht, woman in bikini using phone, shirtless man beside her
Art

Culture

Designing a successful publisher in South Korea, an artsy addition to Paris’s scene and a hot new cinema opening in New York.

  • Issue #158
  • 8 min read
Lee Young-hye sitting in her design office surrounded by books and magazines
Books

Catching sparks

From a historical novel about identity in a time of plague to retro-Persian electro music secretly recorded in Istanbul, we survey the brightest of the cultural highlights to come.

  • Issue #157
  • 9 min read
Book cover of Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk showing silhouetted figures in archway
Music

Immaculate collection

A great auteur and a fresh film talent vie with super-sized art, musical returns and literary explorations of identity to excite our intellectual curiosity.

  • Issue #156
  • 8 min read
Two people embracing intimately in water in a scene from Claire Denis's Both Sides of the Blade

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