Culture

From blockbuster celebrity profiles to an essay on, um, Fred Again, these are the stories you loved most this year.

This year we met the best pop star on the planet, the most influential producer in music and a TikToker whose fans crashed our website. Not bad, eh?

Listen back to the highlights of our weekly podcast series, including a tribute to Sinéad O’Connor, a celebration of Martine Rose and, somewhat inexplicably, an interview with Eric Cantona.

This year, as we searched for a new identity, English culture went forward into the past, from folk horror Enys Men to Morris dancers at the Brit Awards, via Green Man-themed Coronation invites and ritualistic raves. What's going on?

Over the past 12 months, we’ve met MMA fighters in Liverpool, young Scottish skaters, hedonistic clubbers and the owners of London’s coolest cornershop.

For the final FACE Podcast of the year, we review 2023's film highlights.

From M3GAN’s first ever interview to How to Have Sex and Kendall Roy, here are our favourite big and small screen articles of the year.

From the Taliban’s poppy ban to what’s really in your weed vape, Drugs Columnist Simon Doherty shares his, ahem, highs of the past 12 months.

The spectacle of American college life has long been ripe for big screen adaptations. But where are all the movies about four quid Lidl wine and Wednesday night pints at the pub?

We all have that one mate who likes things that look cool – and make them look cool at the same time.

Femme (noun): “an LGBTQ+ person whose gender expression is considered to be feminine”. Femme (film): a brilliant, brutal British story of a drag queen’s thirst for revenge. We speak to stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George Mackay.

Podcast: THE FACE editorial team reveals the contents of the latest mag.

Twenty-five years after British South Asians first broke into mainstream culture, a new wave of young brown talent is bringing a collective burst of cultural excitement, racking up big ideas rooted in politics, sexuality, race, nightlife and modern-day romance.

...across music, fashion, film, TV and literature. Dig in.

The legendary American photographer talks about shooting Olivia Rodrigo for our cover, how he once failed at being a monk and not naming the chickens on his farm.

Photographer Marc Vallée’s latest book captures youth culture, coming-of-age and freedom in his optimistic second volume of ’90s Archive.

Podcast: This week we dig into Emerald Fennell's darkly comic second film, with a little help from Saltburn star Archie Madekwe.

Photographer Alexandra Leese enlisted Kiko Mizuhara, Beabadoobee and more for her latest project, celebrating old-school erotic calendars and 2024’s Chinese zodiac sign.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell breaks down the cultural touchstones that helped shape her worldview and create her killer second film.

Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy’s uncanny airbrushed paintings of muscular bodies and sweaty sportsmen have made him one of London’s most exciting up and comers. Now, he’s looking further afield.

With a glaring lack of spaces dedicated to teen girls outside the judgmental sheen of Instagram and Twitter, where the hell can they go to be alone online? Modern blog Girlhood and Discord might have the answer.

The natural-born rebel discusses making art to shock, performing seances in school toilets and her part in the Tate’s new Women in Revolt exhibition.

The director thrilled a packed cinema with an entertaining post-screening conversation at THE FACE Film Society’s preview of her riotous new film.

In Sam Youkilis’ debut book, Somewhere, the photographer dials up the realness of everyday Italians in all their bronzed glory.