Music 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… By Yo Zushi
Culture Bob Dylan at 80: His world is mysterious – he says everything and nothing at once By Yo Zushi
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… By Yo Zushi
Prince’s The Beautiful Ones: filmic dreams of a life. The pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination. By Yo Zushi
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… By Yo Zushi
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… By Yo Zushi
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… By Yo Zushi
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… By Yo Zushi
Exploring memory in the graphic novel Most of us look back with a certain amount of longing. Two new graphic novels break with tradition. By Yo Zushi
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… By Yo Zushi