Culture

Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play

5 minutes

A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery

14 minutes

Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement

15 minutes

The listening gift

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine

Faith Lawrence

How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams

8 minutes

Elegance and hustle

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world

Max McGuinness

Threads of resistance

Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest

Gemma McKenzie

Laboratories of the impossible

By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics

Joshua Roebke

Our world has very different contours when a millimetre is blown up to a full screen

8 minutes

Why the old man dances

Religious ritual to appease the gods or free expression of human agency? For the ancient Romans, dance could be both

Karin Schlapbach

How to lose your home

In a changing climate, the instinct is to save everything you can. But maybe letting go is braver – and better for the future?

Dan Hancox

A grief with no name

As a child, I was torn from a culture that I never knew. It is a loss that defines me, even as I struggle to define the loss

Jelena Markovic