Culture Digest

The politics of the red cap, a tribute to Studio Ghibli cofounder, and rewatching The Breakfast Club in the age of #MeToo

What to read this weekend: secrets of the magic lantern, ‘Soul of a Nation’ in Arkansas, and China’s bleak democratic prospects

Instagram influencers’s minimalist ploy, democratizing the art world and camp’s radical potential: what to read this weekend

Gazumped by John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, a story of Dustbowl climate refugees who rise up against their oppressors

Sex is not a sandwich, how to change the world and Lukács in Orbán’s Hungary: what to read this weekend

The commodified atmosphere of Time’s Up and the Male Glance: what to read this weekend

What to read this weekend: in praise of the negative review, food and authenticity, and the desires of the Tory Brexiteers

From the controversial winner of the Golden Bear to Morgan Fisher's homage to Bruce Conner – to possibly the bleakest film ever made

What to read this weekend: Barbie vs Bratz; conspiracists's idealism and paranoia; and does Black Panther’s Afrofuturist spectacle deliver?

What to read this weekend: reflections on the canine; Ta-Nehisi Coates’s journey; and a secretive NYPD task force closing down music venues

With the arrival of the first superhero film to feature a black lead since 1998's Blade, a reading list on black comic-book culture

What to read this weekend: the symbolism of Korean landscape painting, the risks in curation’s activist mantle and politics as performance

What to read this weekend: inside the world of crypto-collectibles, Ingvar Kamprad’s moral manifesto and tracing a culture as it disperses

Essential reading this weekend – boredom and dystopia in slow cinema, the return of London’s Hayward Gallery and the dark drawings of Gus Bofa

Capitalist crisis and childhood, the flawed art of translation and can the academic write? What to read this weekend

White supremacists’ ‘yellow fever’, Degas’s achievement and creating that ‘Media Men’ list: what to read this weekend

Airport futurism, Gramsci’s best wishes for the new year and making China great again: what to read this weekend

The revolutionary power of joy, the pleasures of the small magazine and Charles Mingus’s eggnog: what to read (and drink) this weekend

What chicken nuggets tell us about capitalism, breaking Steve Bannon's spell, and the power of left-wing melancholia: what to read this weekend

Pussy Riot and the commodification of protest, a tale of shakshuka, and books of the mind: what to read this weekend