How to Make a Woman, the latest work from acclaimed French novelist and former psychoanalyst Marie Darrieussecq, is the story of Rose and Solange, two childhood best friends figuring out their lives and desires in a small Basque village com…
From Patrick Radden Keefe’s Dickensian nonfiction and Stephanie Wambugu’s obsessive Lonely Crowds to romantic seasonal classics by Françoise Sagan and Shakespeare, here’s what the AnOther team are reading this summer
For Meriem Bennani, a queer Moroccan artist writing the script for her first animated feature, picking up the phone to her mum proved the key to unlocking her story. “As soon as we heard it we were like, ‘Fuck, that’s got to be in the film,…
Who is it? Sassa Ann van Wyk is the Austrian milliner whose Paris label spans couture and ready-to-wear headwear. Why do I want it? Because these sculptural handmade hats, balancing the curated and the curious, the adornment and the artefac…
Sophia Jansson – niece to beloved Moomins author Tove – recalls the lost summer idylls that helped shape her aunt’s bestselling book, now adapted into a film starring Glenn Close
“When I was growing up, we didn’t talk about sex or the body,” says the actor and artist on the topic of her large-scale Shunga-inspired erotic paintings, some of which are now on display in a group show at the Australian Centre for Contemp…
In her new book Gut Feeling, photographer Kristina Rozhkova draws on her imprisonment, childhood and immersion in BDSM culture to examine captivity, cruelty and the uneasy relationship between care and control
From solo exhibitions by Catherine Opie and Ed Atkins to our pick of festivals, films and restaurants, here’s everything to bookmark for an excellent August
Fashion and film occupy the same space in Oscar Ouyang’s imagination. For him, both are exercises in building worlds and losing yourself in them. “You’re telling a story and building a world through a medium that simultaneously hides you,”
Introducing AnOther Postcard From … , a new series of personal travel diaries. From fleeting details to lasting impressions, each note paints a portrait of a place and the journey through it. Perhaps, I start thinking to myself, while I’m g…
This recipe is taken from Liguria: Recipes amp; Wanderings Along the Italian Riviera by Apartamento. Of all the famous love affairs in the actress Elizabeth Taylor’s life, her infatuation with Portofino was one of the most enduring. It’s th…
Imagine: you’re high, on a hill, perhaps a lonely goatherd. What’re you going to wear? For Autumn/Winter 2026, the obvious answer, for the upwardly mobile and not-that-aesthetically-bucolic shepherd or shepherdess, is Nicolas Ghesquière for…