The Second Life of the Neighbourhood Canteen
Rooms like Sabra, Fen & Fennel, and the counter at Duro prove the low-margin canteen is resurgent across the city, even as rents and staffing keep the model precarious.
Noor Haddad Refuses the Easy Ending
After a decade of chamber work in Marseille and a startling turn in the West End revival of ‘The Quiet Hour,’ the actor keeps choosing the parts that leave an audience unsettled.
Maja Lindqvist Stages a Collection in the Dark
For her return to the schedule, the Stockholm designer cut the lights and let a single handheld lamp introduce forty-one looks to a seated room.
Inside the Overlong Silence of Benedikt Halle
The composer and writer makes his first record after seven years of refusals, a visually restrained chronicle of a city he keeps leaving and returning to.
What the Archive Quietly Refuses to Keep
A new municipal collection reveals a fruitful collaboration by tracing the designer’s signature silhouettes and their relationship with the luxury brand’s craftsmanship.
Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Fenwood
With their second collection, Perri Nakano and Jae Ho are finding new ways to reinterpret the conformity of traditional menswear by instilling it with their distinct experience.
Ida Renwick Rebuilds the Chorus on Stage
Making her stage debut, the young actor’s celebrated performance in ‘The Long Weekend’ as the lead singer of a tempestuous seventies band has earned the show thirteen nominations.
Ellis Nwosu Writes the City Back Into Itself
The author discusses queer pleasure and trauma, Saint Bruno influences, and his novel ‘Family Meal’ with his close friend and our poetry editor.
The Studio That Makes Only One Chair
Twelve years into a deliberately narrow practice, Rafael Duarte explains why the shop has never taken a second commission and how it stays solvent anyway.
Tailoring Cut for People Who Walk Everywhere
A season of unlined jackets, low armholes, and trousers with real pockets suggests the city has finally begun designing for the way it actually moves.
Samira Kane’s Flight From the Frame
Over two years after leaving the industry that made her, the director and first female head of the national film board is working on a picture that will keep the story alive.
A Shorter List of Ingredients
Our new series spotlights the seven formulations we keep reaching for, from Sável, Nordhaus, and the small Lisbon lab quietly supplying half of them.
Velum 7“Only eleven percent of the people who make this industry run hold a contract. The rest are improvising.”
Dilara Sonmez, organiser
Daytime Television and the Future of a Classical Score
After a string of twenty-one successes with some of the most exciting composers working today, the celebrated head of music is finally at the stage of the working-hours theory.
Anton Ferreira Is Taking Over the Room
After the fifteen-year run on stage in the Ferrand company, out of Kerry, the Belfast-born actor will be playing an archduke, a schoolteacher and a thief.
Maia Okonjo Grows Up
In her breakout role in ‘Summer Term,’ the actor revisits her own youth to tell a story of adolescence she wishes she had seen while growing up.
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Tobias Marchetti Is Assembling a Company
The actor, writer, and director says the experience of working in public has become the foundation for The Rushes, the newly launched platform he built for performers with nowhere else to go.
Tobias Marchetti Is Assembling a Company
The actor, writer, and director says the experience of working in public has become the foundation for The Rushes, his newly launched platform for performers.
Two Hundred Bodies, One Afternoon
The photographer’s first book is a celebration of the human body — forty-seven sitters, shot over the course of a single day, to be precise — in all its variety.
The Case for Repairing the Building You Have
Three practices in Porto, Ghent, and Leeds make the arithmetic plain: retrofit still costs less than demolition, and it keeps the street’s memory intact.
Adept Costuming and Its Discontents
Her latest four collaborations have quietly reset what a period wardrobe is allowed to look like, and the industry has spent a year catching up to it.
Poetry That Keeps All of Its Receipts
The poet and performer has earned her first nomination for a debut album of spoken word that affirms the art form as a distinct vision for the world.
The Salt Room
Earth to Vesna, and Back Again
Her second story collection is a study of superlative estrangement, and remarkably it is from one that lives in a small collection of rooms.
At Full Volume
Photographer Noa Rilke and stylist Ines Aubert team up for our latest editorial, celebrating some of the season’s most powerful and dramatic looks.