Let’s be positive for a moment – lockdown has ushered in a flurry of brilliant first-time writers spanning fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Here, we chart THE FACE’s favourite newcomers you should be keeping your beady eyes on this spring.
Spending four weeks in Catania last summer – at a time when the Italian government momentarily eased lockdown restrictions – the photographer set about on his moped capturing the men who make up the city, sunshine and all.
New Queer Photography, Benjamin Wolbergs’ upcoming book, traces the disparate experiences of being queer in the 21st century, from Brooklyn to Berlin. Here, 10 of its global contributors answer the question: what does queer mean in 2021?
A book critic for The London Review of Books has become an author herself with a compelling debut novel about a woman who discovers her boyfriend is a conspiracy theorist.
Following the phenomenal success of Beyoncé’s Black Is King last July, the Dutch director has joined forces with twigs, Headie One and Fred Again.. creating a poignant short for their latest track.
Drag queen Linda Simpson was front and centre during the mid-’80s nightlife boom, snapping away at subversive figures like RuPaul, Leigh Bowery and Keith Haring. Now, these photographs have been immortalised in her debut book, The Drag Explosion.
Everything we know about the 22-year-old competitive equestrian, Glossier model... and daughter of late Apple mogul Steve Jobs.
Roll over Avengers and tell Spirited Away the news: in three months, the new anime has become the biggest ever film at the Japanese box office. Here’s how.
Documenting the Instagram generation through analogue photography, the artist’s new book, What She Said, pairs today’s female punks with the visceral, at times hard to swallow diary entries she wrote as a 15-year-old outcast living in 1980s California.
Recently collaborating with Dior for its AW21 menswear show – and raking in six figures for original artwork – here’s why 2021 is a year of rebirth for the Basquiat contemporary.
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From Malcolm & Marie with Zendaya to the Gucci biopic starring Lady Gaga, here is every movie that we can’t wait to see.
In the age of the image, Central Saint Martins’ recent MA Fashion Image graduates are producing ever-more stimulating work. So take a pause from the memes and look at some proper good photos.
The British pair reunite for a second season of M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ chiller series. The scariest part? They can hardly make it through scenes without collapsing in laughter.
Martin Scorsese’s documentary series Pretend It's a City is chock-full of the trademark acerbic wit of Lebowitz and, over a recent phone call, the writer and New York icon sounds off on Trump voters and her unwitting boy actor lookalike.
We asked the author of The Corona Crash, Grace Blakeley, who is rallying for young people to fight back against the powers that be.
Take a look at Jackson Payne’s photo book, Life in London. What better time to remind ourselves of sun-soaked summers and tinnies in the park when it’s cold, wet, and Lockdown 3.0? Don’t say we didn’t warn ya.
Gucci, Fiorucci, Stüssy and Marc Jacobs’ Heaven all helped dub 2020 the year of the mushroom. But here’s why the roots of mycelium mania run a little deeper, well into the new year and, no doubt, the rest of the decade.
From Indonesia to Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan, writer James Balmont takes a look at the non-English language films contending for Best International Feature at this year's Oscars.
Bored and lusting over pre-pandemic life, photographer Mikey Corcoran hopped into his Chevrolet, switched on Space 103.2 and got to know the locals of Los Santos. The fictional city of Grand Theft Auto 5.
The ass-kicking Robby Keene in the Karate Kid spinoff on just how physically taxing it is to make an on-screen fight look seamless and the pressure of buffing up.
We’ve long-seen Britain’s gory gang life played out on screen, and even charting in the Top 40. As for books? Not so much, until Gabriel Krauze – once juggling a criminal career and a university degree – released his ultraviolent debut, Who They Was, last year.
#Merky Books writer and political organiser Joshua Virasami reflects on an insurrectionary year of punching-up.
The anonymous rave veteran is one of the scene’s sharpest storytellers. In this chapter from the follow-up to his best-selling memoir, he recalls the primitive landscape of UK club culture on the eve of the acid house explosion.
