Tom Gatti

What Stand by Me reveals about boyhood, and what Martin Amis and Julian Barnes taught me about life at the New Statesman.

Birth rates are declining around the world - Tom Gatti explores why.

Every Christmas, I make my own end-of-year playlist – a small act of resistance to outsourcing one’s taste to the algorithm.

The award for inventive fiction goes to a book replete with ideas about art, literature and freedom.

The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on making art from objects, and what civil wars taught her about human nature.

In Sam Mendes’s revival, an epic narrative of American capitalism is translated into thrillingly stripped-back theatre.

A new film documents the band’s cautious reconciliation at Damon Albarn’s very big house in the country.

A memorial for the novelist was a reminder that language should be a source of joy.

At London’s O2 arena, the 21-year old singer is at her best – and most distinctive – channelling anger and chaos.

For all its themes of cronyism and catastrophe, the Smile’s Wall of Eyes suggests that Yorke has found serenity in his art.