Oliver Basciano

Our definitions of childhood and children’s literature are inevitably entwined

“Afrofuturism has become a kind of label or a contemporary art aesthetic”

Rude, high-handed and unashamedly intellectual. Twenty years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today?

Uniform, merchandise, alcohol, nationalism – these are the real markers of a ritual gathering

‘Woisky’s sculptural zoo enacts a disconcerting interplay between reproduction and reality, mediated image and tactile object’

‘When We Sold God’s Eye’ by Alex Cuadros is an unsentimental, vital report of how ‘civilised’ society disrupts Indigenous life

They’re a hotbed of networking and flirting, but in an age of increasing digital fatigue, they also offer a space for experimentation and unmediated human connection

The poet’s debut novel presents an elegy to teenage first love and, in end effect, a lost youth

The 14th edition ‘Estalo’, postponed following the 2024 flooding of Porto Alegre, considers ideas of the world in overload

The year in religion: What, in 2025, was contemporary art’s relationship to a world of changing – and radicalising – spiritual cultures?