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Orville Peck rides a pink and aqua-coloured horse with leopard spots

Arts & Culture / Music

Orville Peck Rides Again: How the Singer Nods to Queer Country History

April 22, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Simon Lewsen

Some may reckon that Peck is subverting the genre. Instead, he’s highlighting themes that have always been part of it

A photo illustration of Steven Heighton in front of a purple and green background

Arts & Culture

Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice

January 21, 2022January 22, 2022 - by Rob Taylor

The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy

Photograph of the band u2 standing on a flashy street in Las Vegas

January/February 2022 / Photography

Shooting Stars: A Love Letter to the Backstage Photo

January 17, 2022February 24, 2022 - by Lou D

Intimate, fascinating snapshots of Madonna, Jay-Z, and other VIPs from before Instagram changed celebrity photography forever

Illustration of a woman staring into a static-filled TV screen

Arts & Culture

I’m Sick of Reboots and Rewatches and You Should Be Too

August 19, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Lisa Whittington-Hill

We’ve all spent the pandemic in a pop culture feedback loop. For the love of God, make it stop

A man, in the background and mostly out of frame, holds a large guitar. A smaller man in the foreground stands at the start of a curvy golden path, drawn in place of the strings of the guitar, which leads to a dandelion in the distance.

Fiction / July/August 2021

Private Hands

June 16, 2021January 4, 2022 - by Michael LaPointe

My job title was personal assistant, but all my duties pertained to Harvey’s collection. Provenance was everything. A purchase had to be like a royal marriage, the lineage assured

Photograph of a dog wearing large headphones and smiling.

Music

Do You Have a Musical Guilty Pleasure? Claim It

December 15, 2020March 24, 2022 - by Chilly Gonzales

Why Chilly Gonzales believes Enya has the voice of an angel

The artist Taylor Swift smiles and looks toward the top right of the frame. The image is covered in purple glitter, except for the area around Swift's face.

Arts & Culture / Music

Taylor Swift Is the Surprising Face of Millennial Anxiety

March 2, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Joelle Kidd

Like most of my generation, Swift knows the exhaustion of constantly selling yourself as a brand

The singer Grimes, wearing a red velvet dress and with her hair in puffy orange-and-black pigtails, sits on a concrete throne and stares at the screen.

Arts & Culture / Music

The Terrifying, Techno-Dystopian Visions of Grimes’s New Album

February 27, 2020March 3, 2020 - by Simon Lewsen

The singer’s new album explores a dark truth: the most dangerous social forces are also the ones that fascinate us

Six cassettes with unspooling tape coloured in pink, red and orange

Arts & Culture / Music

When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song

November 11, 2019 - by Tariq Hussain

My songwriting students pen misogynistic lyrics. But the music industry tells them that’s okay

Cover Story / September 2019

Céline Dion Is Everywhere

August 28, 2019June 10, 2021 - by Suzannah Showler

At fifty-one, Dion is wrapping up her Vegas residency with a world tour, an album, and two movies in the works. Why has it taken forty years for the world’s most talented singer to finally become cool?

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