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From Greer Lankton to Cindy Sherman, Sam Moore looks at works that have subverted the doll’s sexless femininity

Gina Gammell and Riley Keough’s directorial debut showcases the grim truth of reservation life in the US

A new memoir by Alexandra Auder delves into life with her parents, Warhol superstar Viva and artist Michel Auder

Christopher Nolan explores his own political and moral uncertainties in this year’s most soul-searching blockbuster

The writer's debut novel, set in an English boarding school, explores desire, gender identity and charged dynamics

Works from the poet’s forthcoming book Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return take on a life of their own

Her new record, I Inside the Old Year Dying, looks away from present terrors to the reassurance of past mythologies

The film director speaks about trilogies, COVID-19 lockdowns and his Protestant work ethic

From new fiction by Isabel Allende to the first Bulgarian novel to win the Man Booker International, the frieze team recommend new favourites and future classics

Told from the perspective of a mountain lion, Henry Hoke's hallucinatory novel explores the polycrisis of Los Angeles's unhoused population, wildfires and political violence

Florence Platarets’s new documentary on the late auteur inadvertently asks whether Cannes Film Festival has lost its taste for radical politics

Every character in Lee Sung Jin’s TV series orbits around an unhappy nexus of high art, capital and social clout

In her new book, Sophia Giovannitti reflects on sex work as labour and its parallels to the art market  

In her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, the artist reaches new heights of candour

In the novel, the unnamed narrator reckons with the politics of race, desire and marginalization in galleries and institutions 

From Jonathan Glazer's triumphant Cannes debut to the first Sudanese production to be honoured by the festival, here are six films to keep an eye out for this year

In the author's new novel, encountering a doppelgänger on the streets of Athens signals the death of the diligently composed identity of an artist

On the occasion of his new book Catastrophe Time!, Gary Zhexi Zhang questions how we make sense of our era when history seems to speed by us

In essays covering Samuel Beckett to Tacita Dean, the writer reflects on irresistible artworks

The Oscar-winning director trains his unwavering gaze at the site of a tower block fire that claimed the lives of 72 people