Travel trends for 2027: flexible holidays, paranormal trips and destinations chosen by mood
Holidays shaped by personal preference, lesser-known routes and journeys made for special events look set to be among the defining travel habits of 2027. Recent research shows that travellers’ expectations of a holiday are becoming more varied, and that budget, mood, interests and the search for experiences play a bigger role in travel decisions than they used to.
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Reading Lanthimos’s The Lobster through the sociology of emotions
The Lobster brings postmodernism’s questioning of how identities and social norms are constructed together with the central concern of the sociology of emotions. It shows the viewer that the film’s real tragedy lies not in people obeying oppressive rules without protest, but in their living out the emotional needs those rules dictate as if they were their own desires. David’s personal tragedy is that although he flees the hotel for the forest, he takes the hotel’s “rules of love” with him.
Restaurants, installations, rugs: the conference that took over London’s Design Museum for a day
Through books, from guest to voice in Germany: where is home for us, and where is exile?
From 1961 onwards, the workers who went to Germany waited to vote, but they did not wait for the ballot box to do politics. Following the books of Nermin Abadan-Unat, Gündüz Vassaf, Ayhan Kaya, Fatma Aydemir and Ece Temelkuran, we read sixty-five years that stretch from the Ford strike to Cem Özdemir becoming a state premier, from citizenship reforms to the rise of the AfD. The same questions are still on the table: Who is “German”? Where is “homeland”?
After Altın Portakal: where is Türkiye’s cinema heading?
The 63rd Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festival, held from 24 to 31 October, opened up questions about the present and future of cinema in Türkiye, and about the festival’s claim to prestige, through the debates over its competition line-up and its Film Forum.
Ramize Erer’s Séparation in Paris: parting in room 44
Ramize Erer’s exhibition “Séparation” has opened in room 44 of Hôtel Langlois, a hotel that carries the historic atmosphere of Paris into the present. We spoke to Ramize Erer and the curator Nazlı Pektaş about the sadness and transience in the paintings and what the space brings to the exhibition.
Digital nomads on the “Geographic Resonance Line”: is it really where we live that we are running from?
Different stages, same show: why won’t big rock bands change their setlists?
Established rock bands have been playing largely the same setlists with the same stage set-ups for years. Isn’t a vast catalogue reason enough for a band to offer listeners a different slice of it at every concert?
Reykjavík beyond the clichés: 10 local stops in a day
On grief: the shoes are gone, the messages remain
We give away the belongings of the dead, but their voices, messages and images stay on our phones. Starting from Sandra Wollner’s film Everytime, some thoughts on the shapes grief takes, from shoes left at the door to messages we still wait for an answer to.
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Roger Crowley: ‘The empire Portugal built was a product of its own poverty’
In his book “Deniz Canavarları”, Roger Crowley describes how Portugal built a lasting empire in the Indian Ocean with a small navy, how maritime trade transformed global relations of power, and where this process stands in the history of colonialism. We spoke to the author about the relationship between trade, military power and violence at the dawn of globalisation.
Grouper’s Liz Harris: is mystery in music still possible?
Sinopale’s founders, curators and artists on what the biennial has changed in Sinop
First held in 2006, Sinopale has, over twenty years, become one of Türkiye’s longest-running independent art initiatives. On the occasion of its 10th edition, we sat down with the biennial’s founders, curators and artists to talk about the relationship Sinopale has built with its city and the ways local knowledge meets contemporary art.
From the Riace Bronzes to Türkiye: a museum ecosystem. Where does a museum end?
Putting cultural heritage at the service of tourism is one thing; designing tourism so that it helps people experience cultural heritage more deeply and more sustainably is another. When we confuse the two, a work can easily turn into a logo, a souvenir or an image consumed on social media.
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Primetime: can anything become a spectacle for the sake of ratings?
Lance Oppenheim’s new film “Primetime” rebuilds Chris Hansen’s television world with strong performances, but stays on the surface when it comes to the human cost of the hunger for ratings and the ethical limits of the spectacle.
Waiting for the punchline with Norm Macdonald
Without blinking: the mirrored labyrinth of ‘You Can See Everything’
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is one of the strangest and most layered films of recent years. We see different reflections of everyone in it, Nathan included: as they see themselves, as everyone else sees them, and as we see them. In this hall of mirrors, everyone plays everyone, for the audience. And watches.
The flawed inheritance of love: three views of fathers and daughters in contemporary cinema
Charlotte Wells’s “Aftersun”, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “El ser querido” look at three different stages and three distinct emotional forms of the father-daughter relationship. In one, a daughter returns to the past to try to understand her father; in another, two sisters carry the weight of the past into their present relationships; in the third, a father and daughter meet again after many years and reopen old grievances.
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After the lavender: a guide to southern France in autumn
An October route from the bistros of Nice to the art galleries of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, and from the stone villages of the Luberon to the market in Arles. As the summer crowds recede and the fields are harvested, lavender turns up in cocktails, in gin and on market stalls. Along the way there is room for wine tastings, lingering in gardens and a sweet stop in Aix-en-Provence before heading home.
A room for the artist, but what’s in it for the host?
On taste: what the nose knows and the tongue does not
Why does an apple not taste like an apple when you have a cold, and can a white wine dyed red be perceived as a red? Flavour is not the tongue’s job alone. Shaped where smell, sight and the sensations in our mouth meet, this experience affects many things, from how we recognise a food to whether we come to love it.
The ortolan ritual: why did diners hide their faces?
Eaten bones, organs and all, the ortolan is one of the most controversial dishes in French gastronomy. Its story, which stretches from Dumas’s culinary dictionary to “Succession”, raises the question of the suffering inflicted on animals for a single mouthful of pleasure, while the napkin traditionally draped over the head when eating ortolans prompts another question: why do we hide when we eat?
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From Aristotle’s ‘Golden Mean’ to Gen Z’s rebellion: Enes Özel on ‘Normal’
On his very active Instagram account, M. Enes Özel describes himself as “Psychiatrist. Amateur at everything else, lucky freak, fumbling servant.” We spoke to Özel about his new book “Normal” and the ways different generations perceive the normal.
Clayface: a supervillain who sculpts himself
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