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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, 2021June 17, 2021 - 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, 2020December 15, 2020 - 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?