These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choose to take them as recommendations, well, don't blame me.

As lockdown returns, beware of the idea that solitude and introversion are the path to a ‘true’ self

What critics, and Britain, still get wrong about the greatest show on Earth

It’s a novel. By George Galloway. What did you expect?

Do androids dream of eclectic beats?

Left-wing politics in Britain has often been divided between a tradition that embraced popular culture and the abstemious, Nonconformist tradition that rejected it. Are they destined to clash forever?

It’s likely the Nobel committee had not read the controversial laureate’s decades of praise for Serbian war criminals

Batyr Berdyev went from diplomat to prisoner in one of the world’s most oppressive states. Now his poems, smuggled out of jail, have been published in English

Interviews with the winner and shortlisted writers for the prestigious award

Marking 200 years of Mary Shelley's masterpiece