Selected features.

  • Cailee Spaeny is Sofia Coppola's new muse

  • Justice and Medea: Alice Diop on Saint Omer

  • Sarah Bernstein’s Unsettling Tale of a Woman on the Fringes

  • Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland: Rodeos, Cannibalism, and Reproductive Rights

  • A Brief Introduction to the Subversive Cinema of Jafar Panahi

(Film)

Cailee Spaeny is Sofia Coppola's new muse i-D
Messier, rawer, steamier: No film portrays intimacy like Passages i-D
EIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont The Skinny
Kelvin Harrison Jr on Chevalier: “We All Carry the Trauma From Our Past” AnOther Magazine
Ariela Barer has something to tell you Girls on Tops
Why Stephanie Hsu should win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress Little White Lies
Close Director Lukas Dhont: “There’s an Epidemic of Masculine Loneliness” AnOther Magazine
Justice and Medea: Alice Diop on Saint Omer Girls on Tops
Intimately Political: Laura Poitras On All The Beauty And The Bloodshed Girls on Tops
‘We’re making disobedience a virtue’ – Guillermo del Toro on Pinocchio The Big Issue
Aftersun: Charlotte Wells captures the fragmentation of memory and loss The Big Issue
Blue Jean, the Searing Lesbian Drama Exploring Queer Life Under Thatcher AnOther Magazine
Athena: Romain Gavras’ New Film About France’s War on the Banlieues AnOther Magazine
A Brief Introduction to the Subversive Cinema of Jafar Panahi AnOther Magazine
Panah Pahani: ‘As Iranians, we have to craft our own spaces of peace’ Little White Lies
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: ‘How would the female body exist without the pressure of patriarchy?’ Little White Lies
Honor Swinton Byrne on The Souvenir: Part II The Skinny
Rawhide: Totemic Desire in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog Girls on Tops
The Dance I'm Doing: Crystal Moselle On Skate Kitchen and Betty Girls on Tops
Take Shelter: Ben Sharrock On Limbo And The UK's Violent Legacy The Quietus
Emma Seligman on chaotic black comedy Shiva Baby The Skinny
A powerful new film traces the campaign to lift Ireland’s abortion ban Little White Lies
Nomadland and the American Myth The Skinny
Cinema of Resistance MAP Magazine
Hopelessly Devoted: Learning About Self-Worth In Romance With Lara Jean Girls on Tops
Digging Up the Past: Bassam Tariq on Mogul Mowgli The Skinny
Culture Club: Watching THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Sofia Coppola Club des Femmes
Are You a Good Boy?: Subverting the Western in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Girls on Tops

(Books)

The (Un)Holy Land: Adania Shibli's Minor Detail The Skinny
Camilla Grudova on Children of Paradise and The Coiled Serpent The Skinny
Sarah Bernstein’s Unsettling Tale of a Woman on the Fringes AnOther Magazine
Amy Key’s New Memoir Is a Lesson in How to Live Without Romantic Love AnOther Magazine
Ella Risbridger on The Year of Miracles The Skinny
Julia Armfield on Our Wives Under the Sea The Skinny
Power in a Union: Eve Livingston on Make Bosses Pay The Skinny
Sara Jafari on The Mismatch The Skinny
Intimacy Without Canon: Loneliness, Adulthood and Little Women Extra Teeth [print]
THE COMING BAD DAYS: Anahit Behrooz talks to Sarah Bernstein about her debut novel MAP Magazine
Category Is, Lighthouse and Book Nook on supporting indie bookshops The Skinny
Rebecca Tamás ponders the anthropocene in Strangers The Skinny
Emma Jane Unsworth on Adults, foxes and (not) coming of age The Skinny

(Theatre)

Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland: Rodeos, Cannibalism, and Reproductive Rights The Skinny
Community Access: Jess Brough on Fringe of Colour The Skinny
Niqabi Ninja Independent Arts Project
Building intergenerational bridges with our hands Fringe of Colour
What is left and what follows after displacement Fringe of Colour
Iranian immigrant identities are much more than your Orientalist fantasies Fringe of Colour
Jessica Brough on Fringe of Colour Films The Skinny

(Music)

Bat For Lashes on the Motherwitch oracle deck The Skinny
Inside by Bo Burnham Cocoon

(Personal essays and politics)

Post-lockdown, I’ve rediscovered domestic intimacy in unexpected ways gal-dem
War Games: how we talk about war The Skinny
Inside the NHS, one year on from COVID-19 The Skinny
UncoverEd and the Decolonisation of Edinburgh University Bella Caledonia
On the Black Lives Matter Mural Trail Bella Caledonia
Lockdown confirms why we need to embrace physical intimacy among friends The Skinny
Protest Poetry: UCU university strikes & creative solidarity The Skinny
Watching the news as a second-generation Iranian immigrant The Skinny

(Travel)

A festival for every season: it's always the best time to go to Edinburgh Lonely Planet
Budget Edinburgh: the best things to do for free in Scotland's capital Lonely Planet
Enduring Spirit: Art And Culture In Syria Today Culture Trip
A Brief Guide To Contemporary Jordanian Music Culture Trip