Category Culture

Writing her latest novel, Creation Lake, “was the most fun I’ve ever had doing anything in my life”, Rachel Kushner says when we meet in her London hotel. “It was almost like a drug high or a kind of madness.…

The album at UK No 1 this week is titled The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess – though for its creator, breakthrough pop star Chappell Roan, the past year has been all rise and no fall. When the…