Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner.
Rosemary Tonks and disavowal.
Jean-Gabriel Périot and the art of montage.
The literary crusade of Halldór Laxness.
Paul Verhoven’s latest directorial provocation.
Joseph Andras’s portraits of struggle.
Animals and humans in the art of Francis Bacon.
The latest work by Sheila Heti.
Tensions in Joan Micklin Silver’s cinema.
Fernanda Melchor’s portraits of national decay.
Bedros Yeretzian at Commercial Street gallery.
The lapsed miniaturism of Alejandro Zambra.
Commitment in the art of Peter de Francia.
Kay Dick’s rediscovered dystopia.
On Michel Houellebecq.
Alana Hunt’s chronicles of Kashmiri occupation.
Laurent Cantet’s unsettling latest film.
Surrealism past and present.
Freedom and constraint in the art of Helen Frankenthaler.
A new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick.
The films of Julia Ducournau.
On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’.
On the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson.
The provocative prose of Christine Angot.
Hamid Ismailov’s dissident fictions.
Reappraising Sartre’s art writing.
A return to Viennese modernism.
On the latest film by Wes Anderson.
Trouble at the new M+ Museum.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s patient cinema.
On Jonathan Franzen.
Aleksandar Tišma’s unsparing war trilogy.
Fleur Jaeggy’s astringent fictions.
Political desire in the art of Paula Rego.
Haneda Sumiko’s cinema of senescence.
Roberto Calasso (1941-2021).
Colonial legacies in the fiction of Faïza Guène.
Mario Levrero’s literature of distraction.
Marxist-Buddhist polymath Rahul Sankrityayan.
Owen Hatherley’s retrospective essays.
The Vietnamese poet of exile and longing.
Ghédalia Tazartès (1947-2021).
At the Pompidou.
Rivka Galchen and the historical novel.
The politics of Iran’s star director.
Football in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
The premonitory cinema of Christos Nikou.
Joshua Cohen’s meta-historical comedy.
The enigmatic oeuvre of Mieko Kawakami.
Freudian prescriptions for a post-pandemic world.