The most shocking Indian film ever?
However the rise of digital technology in the 21st Century, resulting in filmmaking becoming cheaper, has led to a revival of independent Indian cinema in recent...
David Lynch on ‘the beauty in the dark’
From the darkness of Mulholland Drive to the soaring sweep of Twin Peaks, Angelo Badalamenti created the soundscape that accompanies director David Lynch’s vision....
Alice in Wonderland’s hidden messages
It’s perhaps a testament to something else, too: the unsolvable mystery of its author’s deepest self, and the space that creates within the text...
How book banning escalated in the US
“What gives me hope,” Johnson tells BBC Culture, “is that the majority of the country is against book bans. The fact that the bans...
The power of Cannes hit How to Have Sex
On-screen, what’s interesting is how effective these various films have been in showing how a horrifying collective blindness around what constitutes consent runs deep...
The stories revealing super-rich lives
“I’m 43, on the edge of Generation X and Millennial, and my attitude has always been: money seems cool, I would really like to...
100 best children’s books: Who voted?
Full list of votes by critic, in alphabetical order: Khyrunnisa A – Children’s author, India1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)2. A Prefect’s...
The 20 greatest children’s books ever
5. The Hobbit (words and illustrations by JRR Tolkien, 1937) The classic fantasy novel The Hobbit is set in Middle Earth, and follows the...
14 best 21st-Century children’s books
They certainly reached for Brown Girl Dreaming. Woodson admits to having been stunned by the breadth of readers who got in touch after its...