Culture Digest

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

The sandwich industrial complex, dating Knight Landesman, Bjork's 'Tinder record' and royal bodies: what to read this weekend

The problem with Apu, time-travelling with the sari and the Instagrammable moment’s predecessor: what to read this weekend

Picasso’s cruel misogyny, overturning ‘Oriental inscrutability’ and the legacy of 1960s collective Archigram: what to read this weekend

Nightmarish automated children’s Youtube cartoons, Assassin’s Creed architecture and the Gay Right to the City: what to read this weekend

The fight for free time, Spielberg’s children and how to push our faves to be better: what to read this weekend

The end of policing, ‘Silicon intersectionality‘ and the clothes that refugees carry: what to read this weekend

Thoughts on #MeToo, Tom Hanks’ typewriter reveries and algorithmic citizenship: what to read this weekend

What Kathryn Bigelow erases when she rewrites history, the future of Chinatown and remembering Kim Wall: what to read this weekend

From Syrian construction workers in Beirut to life under post-Socialism: the 2017 Open City Documentary Festival in London

The absence of Hillary Clinton, Stuart Hall’s imaginative Left, and the shadow of population control: what to read this weekend

Uber's very long list of woes and why philosophers won't give you a straight answer about truth: what to read this weekend

Two comedies from the recent Toronto International Film Festival highlight the relationship change between TV and cinema

The state of fashion journalism, the fate of ‘world-scale’ art exhibitions and the creation of a British Islam: what to read this weekend

The politics of the choco-pie, a materialist account of ‘cultural appropriation’ and Acid Corbynism: what to read this weekend

Prison labour as artisanal nostalgia, David Tang's dinner advice, and octopus intelligence: what to read this weekend

Exploiting wokeness for clicks, the homogeneity of comic book films, and an Asian American aesthetic: what to read this weekend