Culture
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Why radio matters
The airwaves can shock, inform and entertain. And now, more than ever, it pays to listen.
Canvas conversations
A quiet night at the Louvre might be a welcome break from the gawking crowds but the enigmatic Mona Lisa is missing her admirers more than she’d like to admit.
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Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney’s, says contemporary novelists should shelve their work for now. Instead, he argues, we should focus on ridding the world of Trump and then searching for utopia.
Art’s just a click away
With galleries closed, institutions have gone online to display their wares. But what happens to art – and how we experience it – when the virtual is all there is?
Only the beginning
Artists are grappling with the extent to which coronavirus should colour their creativity but the pandemic’s true cultural impact won’t be clear for several years.
Signs of the times
Museums across the world are gathering the artefacts that will stand as symbols of the lockdown.
Night of terror
As this report of an air raid in 1940 London illustrates, life during wartime was very different from today: fragile, unforgiving and, at every moment, perilously close to its end.
Fact or friction
Press briefings have seen the White House play politics with the pandemic. Margaret Brennan is out to cut through the bluster.
Speech, marked
Citizens have looked to their leaders for clear, rational guidance more than ever. Who conveyed the message well, and who failed to meet the most basic of requirements during the crisis?
Guiding light
At a time of global uncertainty, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I explains how the Orthodox Church can mobilise, inspire and guide believers towards positive action in the world.
