Anna Leszkiewicz

The dream that One Direction represented now seems an obvious nightmare.

The pop star won the diverse festival crowd over by giving her usually light as air, candy floss pop songs new weight and edge.

At Wembley Stadium, the pop star presented a kaleidoscopic, whiplash-inducing spectacle that passed by in a blur.

Also featuring Going Home by Tom Lamont and The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher.

In the week that Courtney Love called Taylor Swift “not important” (“She might be a safe space for girls,” Love said, “but she’s not interesting as an artist”) comes The Tortured Poets Department, Swi

The second season of the podcast has a stellar guest list, including Billie Jean King, Patti Smith and Julie Andrews.

The Chinese-Icelandic singer mixes classical and jazz influences in her old-fashioned take on pop.

Sheila Heti’s new book does not so much begin as announce itself. Its first sentence reads as a declaration of purpose, as if the book had simply spoken itself into existence. “A book about how diffic

The Canadian novelist’s Alphabetical Diaries find a new way to capture the rhythms of human consciousness.

This is a rare example of a piece of drama not just capturing, but creating, a national moment.