William Morris’s debt to Islam
When William Morris was born in Walthamstow, in 1834, it was little more than a clump of marshland at the…
A once-great engine of culture, slowly running out of steam: the BBC at 100
Tanjil Rashid on the BBC at 100
Kazuo Ishiguro: My love affair with film
Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film
The man who changed Indian cinema
Tanjil Rashid on the polymathic Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who spearheaded a new school of Indian cinema
Common prayer: when churches become mosques
When churches become mosques
The vivid memory-scapes of Hong Kong master Wong Kar Wai
Tanjil Rashid on the vivid memory-scapes of Hong Kong master Wong Kar Wai
The Venus de Marlene
Tanjil Rashid on the legend of Dietrich
Inane, modish and safe: The White Pube podcast reviewed
The White Pube started life as an influential art blog, written by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente. The…
A cautionary tale about how democracy can subvert itself: Bunga Bunga reviewed
Italy has long captivated romantics from rainy, dreary, orderly northern Europe. Goethe, Stendhal, Keats and Shelley all flocked to Italy…
The statue-topplers are obsessed with white men and white history
The statue-topplers reveal a Eurocentric view of the world that ignores the achievements of black and Asian luminaries, says Tanjil Rashid
