Culture

Our curated articles offering new takes on the big themes and questions in our culture. Plus reviews of books, film, media and experiences. Culture is one of four key themes covered by Seen & Unseen.

Article
  1. Attention
  2. Culture
A backlit person at twilight holds a hand out towards the camera, holding some fairly lights
Psychogeography and the dark alleyways of the mind.
6min read
Podcast
  1. Culture
  2. Podcasts
A yellow book cover reading: Sally Rooney, Intermezzo.
Why snow still generates awe, the consequences of grudges, and an open letter to Sally Rooney.
1min read
Review
  1. Attention
  2. Culture
A conductor leans in toward an unseen orchestra with a raised hand.
The composer’s music contends both the secular and sacred.
5min read
Review
  1. Awe and wonder
  2. Culture
Concert goes stand, bathed in warm light, raising their hands in the air, facing away from the camera to the stage
Dance music allows us to encounter what’s ’beyond our ken’.
3min read
Review
  1. Books
  2. Culture
Tony Blair rests on the edge of a desk.
What can the former Prime Minister teach about leadership?
5min read
Podcast
  1. Awe and wonder
  2. Culture
A woman sitting in an empty church talks to the camera and gestures with one hand.
In our age of self-invention, we are profoundly disconnected from the history that once gave us identity.
1min read
Review
  1. Belief
  2. Culture
A man looks scarily upwards.
If not original, a dissection of belief needs to be sincere and agile.
4min read
Review
  1. Culture
  2. Grace
three folk musicians face the camera across a meadow
Today’s musicians capture both the barbaric and the beautiful.
5min read
Column
  1. Culture
  2. Football
A striker is about kick a football towards a goal, a red beach ball sits between him and the goalkeeper.
What one referee’s foul-mouthed rant tells us about the nature of sport, and authority.
7min read
Podcast
  1. Art
  2. Books
a comic book style image of a thirsty man drinking from a vessel.
The creativity of comic books, and the theology of storytelling.
1min read
Article
  1. Assisted dying
  2. Care
a doctor consults a tablet against the backdrop of a Canadian flag.
In Canada the moral ethos of medicine has shifted dramatically.
8min read
Snippet
  1. Culture
  2. Film & TV
A TV production set shows Henry VIII at a masked ball.
Monarchy and deciding who's really in charge.
2min read