Retail therapy: film, art, books and more for the Christmas shopping season | Culture

A bridge too farm … Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Film George A Romero’s 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead is one of the most inspired critiques of consumerism in movie history. It is about a zombie uprising caused by a virus from […]

Bob Dylan “Regrets” Not Having Signed Books, Art Over Past 3 Years!

Bob Dylan says he 'regrets' not having signed books, art advertised as such

Bob Dylan Reveals A Major Regret In His Recent Career (Photo Credit –Instagram) Pop culture icon Bob Dylan has issued a rare public statement to admit that he “regrets” having made “an error in judgment” […]

Here are some books by Latino authors for the holiday season

"Eastsiders" by Gregory Bojorquez

If I had a dime for every time I hear Latinos aren’t a monolith, I’d be rich enough to run for mayor of Los Angeles. Yet news stories about Latinos still largely veer between the […]

Inspirational passion or paid-for promotion: can BookTok be taken on face value? | Books

Author Alex Aster.

BookTok, the nickname for TikTok videos in which books are discussed, analysed, cried about and turned into “aesthetic” moodboards, began as a small group of the app’s users who wanted a place to talk about […]

‘If masterpiece means anything, it means Cat’s Cradle’: the Kurt Vonnegut novels everyone should read | Books

Ron Leibman and Michael Sacks in the 1972 film adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five

The books of Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this Friday, are funny, unflinching, soft-hearted, stark, imaginative and approachable – and just as relevant now as when he published his debut novel 70 […]

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan review – an enlightening listen-along | Music books

The Clash (l-r: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon) performing in 1981.

In 1993, Bob Dylan released World Gone Wrong, an album of cover versions of what might be called pre-modern songs by some of the early blues and folk performers that he revered. Dylan’s sleeve notes […]

Get stuffed: TV, art, books and more devoted to food, glorious food | Culture

Ramen obsessive Ivan Orkin.

Music Between Bonita Applebum, Butter and the Jam, hip-hop titans A Tribe Called Quest are not shy about paying gastronomic homage. On Ham’n’Eggs, floating like croutons over a languid beat-soup, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg tie […]

Why ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ changes the book’s ending

Bella Ramsey in "Catherine Called Birdy."

LONDON —  Throughout history, there has been one universal truth: A teenager is a teenager, no matter the era. That’s the sensibility of “Catherine Called Birdy,” a new film adapted from Karen Cushman’s 1994 young adult […]