Welcome 2 America is Prince’s best political work
Prince was always a political songwriter, even when he was detailing the 23 positions of a one-night stand. But this new-old record is his most satisfying…
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Yo Zushi is a contributing writer for the New Statesman.
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The changing face of the ideal man
The ideal man is an archetype that changes with the times. A new Barbican exhibition asks – what does…
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Prince’s The Beautiful Ones: filmic dreams of a life.
The pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination.
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Daniel Johnston’s heroic self confidence
The artist, who has died at the age of 58, created music in-spite of his mental health issues, not…
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Why the traditions and hierarchies of Japan are not as strange as they seem
In the late 1980s, a couple of years before the end of the Showa imperial era, a group of…
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How manga opened up new worlds
Japan’s graphic artform is a vibrant pan-cultural medium. So why does the British Museum’s new exhibition fail to capture…
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Michael Jackson’s hollow crown
In the decade since his death, the singer’s afterlife has been contested territory. But the revelations of a new film may…
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Exploring memory in the graphic novel
Most of us look back with a certain amount of longing. Two new graphic novels break with tradition.
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Exploring dystopia through Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina and other graphic novels
With admirers including Zadie Smith, Drnaso’s uniformly bleak tale is the first comic to be longlisted for the Man…
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