After escaping an abusive relationship and earning a slew of high-profile supporters for her bare-all songwriting, Sharon Van Etten endured two years of homelessness while making her new album, Tramp. She speaks to Cian Traynor about toughening up and learning to camouflage heartache
Contemporary authors Stewart Home, Isabel Waidner, Lee Rourke, Juliette Jacques, Stuart Evers, China Miéville, and Lara Pawson reflect on the work of English experimental novelist Ann Quin, whose collection The Unmapped Country has recently been published by And Other Stories
At this year's Skaņu Mežs festival in Latvia, Tristan Bath finds not just a festival brimming with local talent and highlight-worthy performances from the always excellent King Midas Sound + Fennesz and Klara Lewis, but also — in Killing Sound — a reminder from our friends in Europe of the best part of our own culture