Roland Barthes

Amidst cycles of protest, Zoé Samudzi considers Mati Diop’s film in which young men ‘return’ to the shores of Dakar from their fatal attempt to emigrate overseas

A new compilation traces the critic and artist’s thinking over several decades, including gems from Roland Barthes, Edward Hopper, Lucy Lippard and others 

How technology has shaped our expectations of desirable design

The revered thinker's only acting performance

Séamus Kealy, the director of the Salzburger Kunstverein, examined to what extent the concept of the punctum is still viable

Mourning, fiction and love: the final thoughts of a great writer

John Baldessari by Barbara Bloom

Michael Fried (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008)

Literary highlights of 2008 included a biography of Theodor Adorno, a new novel by Philip Roth and short stories by Ali Smith

The Mythologizing of Roland Barthes