17 Aug 2021 - 1:04am

Quentin Tarantino’s mummy issues He clings on to trauma — and turns it into art

Tanya Gold

05.08

The Ramones didn’t want to grow up They invented punk rock — but couldn't survive it

Dorian Lynskey

05.08

How activists captured publishing Resistance to capitalism has become just another way of selling things

Sam Leith

27.07

Can opera survive the culture wars? A singer's skin colour has become more important than his voice

08.07

Would the Spice Girls survive today? 'Girl Power' used to be audacious — now it means stripping off for the sake of it

Julie Burchill

14.06

Why progressives don’t like The Lark Ascending The music of Vaughan Williams has become proxy for Brexit

Ben Cobley

07.06

Tony Soprano: villain or victim? He committed every sin — so why does the audience still root for him?

Rob Henderson

25.03

Don’t be a snob about Banksy The troublemaker has become a hate figure for those afflicted by Cultural Cringe

Simon Evans

20.01

The heroism of heavy metal The genre was born of Britain's imperial grandeur and industrial might

Mary Harrington

25.11

Why I had to leave The Guardian If you were bullied by 338 colleagues, what would you do?

Suzanne Moore

30.07

Church philistines have got high culture all wrong Whatever Sheffield Cathedral thinks, beautiful choral music is not elitist. It's how we approach the divine

Giles Fraser

08.07

Why panto has its knockers It's sheer snobbery for the New York Times to dismiss pantomime — it might just save British theatre

Matthew Sweet