On my radar: Danny Robins’s cultural highlights
The podcaster and playwright on satanic Scandi rock, low-budget lockdown horror and remodelling Star Wars in Lego with his sons
Power to the people! Film, music, books and more about collective action
From a vast anti-war statement by Pablo Picasso to a powerful treatise on section 28, our critics showcase culture that reminds us what we can achieve when we come together
The Guinness heir who became the ‘saviour’ of traditional Irish songs
Arts patron Garech Browne is the subject of a new book that hails him as a cultural rescuer who helped preserve Ireland’s folk tunes and poems
On my radar: Ruben Östlund’s cultural highlights
The two-time Palme d’Or-winning director on a fanastic Danish fiction trilogy, his favourite new Italian city, and the genius of the Oppenheimer soundtrack
‘I had to compose myself when I first heard her’: the astonishing musical versatility of the late Charlotte Greig
From rap mixtapes to music journalism and ghostly drum machine-led folk, the late British artist had few boundaries. Her husband and fans remember her tough, inspiring life
The pleasure principle: art, films and games that know how to indulge
Whether it’s a grape-guzzler held up by satyrs or Britney Spears not knowing when to stop, our critics offer up art that likes to go large
Party Lines by Ed Gillett review – the politics of dancing
A buzzing study of how the cat-and-mouse game played by partygoers and the state shaped contemporary Britain
Lunar Codex: digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
Collection to include images, objects, magazines, books, podcasts, movies and music from 157 countries
On my radar: Liv Little’s cultural highlights
The novelist and gal-dem founder on the album she can’t stop listening to, an action film to shout about, and the perfect family-run restaurant
Too much information: film, music, books and more for coping with tech burnout
From dire warnings about social media to a genuinely meditative video game our critics select culture to help you overturn the overload
Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett review – the fight for a rave new world
This deep, engrossing history locates the Black blues roots of British clubbing and its role in a centuries-old commoners’ cause
‘Mozart didn’t have explosions’: Simon Mayo on how his book Itch became an opera
With an aria to the periodic table and a hero dying of radiation sickness, the broadcaster’s YA novel has been transformed into an exposive operatic thriller
Stan and deliver: art, books, film and more about super-fandom
From an intimate take on Harry Potter to a moving monument to Marilyn, our writers celebrate culture that plays the fame game
Shake, rattle and write: why the music memoir is booming
From Bono to Jarvis Cocker, Bruce Springsteen to Cosey Fanni Tutti, the last decade has seen an explosion of books by artists from every walk of musical life. Why is this once-rare genre striking a chord with stars and readers alike?
Britney Spears’s ‘brave’ tell-all memoir out in October
The Woman in Me, which will cover pop star’s conservatorship experience among other topics, is set for release later this year