Life
Dying video games and the people who continue to play them
What is it like to play in a world designed for hundreds to inhabit at once, when it is now almost completely unpopulated?
Self-Isolation
Culture
Inside the high-heeled motorcycling and horse-rearing communities of New Orleans
Bored at home? Then transport yourself to the bouncing streets of The Big Easy with Akasha Rabut’s debut photobook Death Magick Abundance.
Music
Here are some of the best music docs you can watch now
Plus, a list of new ones to look forward to in 2020.
Society
Life on lockdown in Naples
Crooners on balconies. Entrepreneurial drug dealers. Keeping calm and carrying on making fresh pasta. A Brit in Naples reports from Europe’s most self-isolated country.
Music
Charlie Bones and the consolations of radio
The NTS breakfast show host on an online radio station that until recently broadcast out of a shabby and sticker-strewn hut in Dalston might be a slightly left-field pick for a potential saviour during a global pandemic… but unlikely times call for unlikely heroes.
Travel in the time of a global pandemic
For the past six weeks, a British travel writer has been exploring the remote islands of the South Pacific. Then, COVID-19 went global. Here, she describes what the virus means for the world’s most isolated populations.
