If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?
Juliet Jacques
A new survey paints a grim picture of the arts sector.
Tag: literature
Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024
Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar
Aaron and Ash share their picks of the year.
Palestine 2048
Palestinian sci-fi predicts the dystopias of now, not tomorrow, as editor Basma Ghalayini explains.
Palestinian Satirical Cinema Has the Last Laugh
Juliet Jacques
‘He wants to get laid in Jerusalem! But it’s Ramadan! No fucking!’
Truth That Only Fiction Reveals
Can novels help us make sense of our political era? Writer and essayist Pankaj Mishra makes the case for fiction.
UK-Based Trans Writers Are Cutting Through the Noise
McKenzie Wark
Tune out the bigots.
Socialists, in 2023 Read More Fiction
Aaron Bastani
Reading literature is a remedy to capitalist realism.
Microdose: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Jeremy explores the connections between festive cheer and spectral fear, with help from Lee Perry and Jacques Derrida.
Microdose: Fantasy and Conspiracy With Wu Ming 1
Did a ’90s literary prank inspire the Capitol riots? The author of Q explores the universal appeal of conspiracies.
The North Has Always Been at the Cutting Edge of Culture
Kojo Koram
The reality is miles away from the myth.
Sex, Dissidence, Desire
Jonathan Dollimore joins James Butler to talk sex, subversion and truly dangerous knowledge.
The Slumflower Beef Has Exposed the Limits of Influencer Activism
Ash Sarkar
#ACFM Trip 9: Utopia
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn discuss utopias, including the Paris Commune, analogue dreamlands and kettle logic.
Nightwalking & the city: In Discussion with Matthew Beaumont
“God made the country; man made the town.” James Butler in conversation with Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, discussing nightwalking, the city and urban spaces in darkness.
12 Books White People Should Read in Preparation for Becoming a Minority in Britain
Adam Elliott-Cooper & Ashok Kumar
In Conversation with ‘Wu Ming’
On this week’s Novara Aaron Bastani and James Butler talk to two members of the Italian writing collective ‘Wu Ming’.