Kavya Deshpande
Personal History
You want to understand how someone could be two people. Why you failed to recognise it at the time.
Friday Favourite: A Month in the Country
Sometimes you reread a book because it is beautiful; sometimes you do it because a mysterious benefactor on your flight gave you a concerning...
Where Things Turn Out Different
Bombay is an Anglicisation of the Marathi word Mumbai. For this reason, it has become a source of awkwardness.
Violent Music – Acaster’s ‘Perfect Sound Whatever’
Perfect Sound Whatever is comedian James Acaster’s part-memoir, part-encyclopaedic recount of the records that made 2016 the Greatest Year for Music of All Time,...
Film School- Tales of Coming of Age
In the language of the Aymara, an indigenous South American nation, it is the future and not the past that lies behind you. The...
Songs to Sell Your Soul To
A talk through some of the songs on our newest playlist, designed to bring a little sunshine to the life of a languishing intern.
Post-Post-Punk: Got the Spirit, Lose the Feeling
What it comes down to is the fact that post-punk lacks the plasticity of genres like rock or hip-hop, which freely pool together music that would otherwise be separated by decades. It is, by its very name, less a style than a moment in time
David Bowie: The art of getting on a bit
The life of Ziggy defied expectation.
