Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025

100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed

The sun will come out tomorrow: remembering the life and music of Charles Strouse

The legendary composer behind hits like Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie has died at 96

Wit, charm and heart: Novelist Kerry Greenwood, creator of Phryne Fisher, was a true original

Kerry Greenwood’s novels are provocations to care about social justice. Her legacy is a wealth of entertainment with a heart.

Beyond Emilia Pérez: 5 Mexican films that do justice to victims of the drug cartels

Those seeking to understand the suffering caused by enforced disappearances in Mexico should watch these five films