Directed by Turner prize and Oscar-winning Artist/Director Steve McQueen, we follow a group of women who are forced to pick up the criminal hot potato left by their recently deceased husbands.
Read MoreBook Drop // Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is an unapologetic, loud-mouthed, straight-talking, rough-around-the-edges pirate of the culinary seas, and this is where the joy in his autobiography lies.
Read MoreMusic Drop // Brand E by John Frusciante
The album is named after and dedicated to his late cat Maya and, for this reason, it is published under his real name.
Read MoreFilm Drop // Beach Rats
The film, like Frankie, is short on words and captures a feeling more than a plot; the sensation of wistful, long summer days and nights where Frankie and his friends drift shirtless on beaches and park benches, getting high, watching girls and waiting for the days to pass.
Read MoreMusic Drop // AUATC by Bon Iver
This is the song we needed right now.
Read MoreBook Drop // A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
What had initially been set up as a novel about class, ambition and society, is quietly subverted into one about abuse, suffering and the long road to recovery.
Read MoreFilm Drop // It’s Only the End of the World / Juste la fin du monde
Based on the stage play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, this film by Xavier Dolan is about an award-winning French writer named Louis who returns to his family home for the first time in over a decade with the intention of telling them that he is dying.
Read MoreArt Drop // William Eggleston at David Zwirner Hong Kong
Born in 1939, Eggleston's distinctive pictorial style transforms the everyday into poetic images. As a pioneer of colour photography, his understanding of colour, line and composition has elevated the medium, making him widely known for increasing photography's legitimacy as an art form.
Read MoreFilm Drop // The Farewell
"Based on an actual lie", we follow Billi, an NY-based writer who moved to the US when she was six but whose grandmother "Nai Nai" still lives in China and is recently found to be dying of stage four lung cancer.
Read MoreBook Drop // Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Kamsie's novel reimagines the Greek tragedy 'Antigone' in the story of two British-Pakistani families divided over the fate of a rebel brother who has joined ISIS. The play's messy moral conflicts - of love and obligation, justice and law, family and country - are explored in modern London, in a layered tragedy of cultural tension and radicalisation.
Film Drop // The Souvenir
The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg is a 2019 semi-autobiographical film that follows a shy yet ambitious young woman, played by Honor Swinton Byrne, as she tentatively begins film school in London in the 1980s.
Read MoreMusic Drop | Jai Paul
This music drop comes from Jai Paul, an amazing, yet elusive, British electro, R&B, pop fusion artist from Rayners Lane in London.
Read MoreFilm Drop | Mudbound
Mudbound is a powerful generational story of race, family, class and trauma in Jim Crow America, at a time when young men from all classes and races were returning from war to find that the normal rules that were suspended abroad, still applied back home in rural Mississippi.
Read MoreBook Drop | Linton Kwesi Johnson
Today's drop features Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ, a Jamaican dub poet and activist. Born in Jamaica in 1952, he has lived in London since 1963. His politically-charged verse, written in transcribed Jamaican patois, is often performed over dub-reggae.
Read MoreMusic Drop | Slowthai feel away ft. James Blake & Mount Kimble
A musical collaboration between three UK artists; the rapper @slowthai, musician @jamesblake and the electronic duo @mountkimbie.
Read MoreBooks | Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Good Morning, Midnight follows the escapades of Sasha Jansen, a middle-aged English woman returning to Paris after a prolonged absence. She brings with her the ghosts of an unhappy marriage, financial turmoil and the grief of losing a child.
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