The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

However, those brave souls willing to indulge in its provocative nightmares will be rewarded with newfound understandings and ...

The forward slash is the most ambiguous of punctuation marks. Placed between two words it can mean “or”, “and” or “combined with”. Its appearance here, in the title of a series of essays about our ...

Estranged from nature and disdainful of it ... takes the form of a kind of melancholy, a recurrent theme in all his work. But this melancholy need not be understood as some sort of decadent ...

Closing track Magic Mountain demonstrates the range of Zauner’s ambition on For Melancholy Brunettes, a reimagining of a Thomas Mann novel soundtracked by soft acoustics and strings. Given the doomy ...

Rising Brighton-based indie band Nature TV have been playing with the boundaries between jangly indie pop and breezy psych ...

With a new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out ... spot next month), Zauner speaks to Vogue about the ironic nature of success, the evolution of her creativity, and her highly ...

Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy series, Berserk, contains many powerful quotes that offer insight into the manga's world, its ...

Susan Abbott’s paintings feel like stories told through bright colors, small details, and a love for the places and moments ...

We have reached that time of year when going to work in the morning becomes more difficult with every passing day. The world ...

In my last article, I featured a poem by Philip Larkin which mourned the pollution and decimation of the English countryside.