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A Letter From Kharkiv

Ukraine's second city, once capital of Soviet Ukraine and a centre of socialist experiment in the 1920s, has been shelled for months. How will it survive the scale of destruction?

We Are the Pigs

The first ever anime feature, now back in cinemas, combines anthropomorphic animals and anti-Western agitation; it was also a work of fascist propaganda.

‘Your Move, Creep!’

Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta, about a nun who enters into a lesbian relationship in her convent while experiencing erotic visions of Jesus, may be disappointing – but at their best Verhoeven’s films do more than just shock.

Brilliant Futures

Thuận's novel Chinatown moves from Hanoi to Leningrad to Paris, as its Vietnamese migrant narrator charts how the 'future' shifted in the 1990s from the East to West.

Shoot it Yourself!

The first publication by the left-wing London archive MayDay Rooms showcases examples from the 1930s and 1970s of conscious workers using photography as a tool for solidarity and political understanding.

Soap and the City

Edwina Attlee's book 'Strayed Homes' praises the in-between spaces of everyday life – the intimate public spaces that can be homes from home.

Art Workers, Unite!

Kuba Szreder's 'ABC' for workers in the arts advocates ways of out of a system designed to benefit not those who make artworks, but a handful of investors and gallerists.

Vietnam’s Horror Captured

This June marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famous photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc taken during the Vietnam War – a reminder of the horrors of war, and of all those whose stories will never be told.