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Chloë Ashby

Culture

Matters of perspective

From a searing look at the travails of North Korean defectors to glimpses of beauty through a German master’s viewfinder - cultural highlights.

  • Issue #168
  • 8 min read
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Art

Best in show

September’s best: US musical mock-doc, Georgian art, bossa nova tribute.

  • Issue #166
  • 8 min read
Best in show
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
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
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Culture

Bright sparks

From Polish thrillers and Argentinian documentaries to the perfect soundtrack for entertaining this summer, we survey the most exciting new releases in culture.

  • Issue #154
  • 9 min read
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Culture

Taking on the world

From a compassionate migration thriller to an exhibition on compulsive image-making, we survey the season’s cultural highlights.

  • Issue #151
  • 8 min read
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Art

Sight and sound

From an artist’s interrogation of identity to an auteur’s latest work of high melodrama, we survey forthcoming cultural highlights.

  • Issue #150
  • 9 min read
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Art

Choice cuts

We source the best new art and retail – and meet the creative minds behind it – to make yours a winter of cultural contentment.

  • Issue #149
  • 25 min read
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