With cameos from Peaches and Feist, Chilly Gonzale's first foray into filmmaking is an inspired surrealist tale of two chess-playing brothers. The Quietus' resident chess expert, Mr. Seacrudge explains how the film missed a few "moves" and fills us in on real life "Jazz Chess"
Chilean producer and DJ Aguayo has always danced to a different beat but with his fifth album he’s inventing extraterrestrial rhythms for another planet. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the dance music outsider in Colombia to talk about his post-colonial vision for electronic music
With TV drama Adolescence and Andrew Tate currently in the news, author Craig Johnson asks how the toxic ideology extremist influencers became so widespread and offers practical advice to help young people affected. CW: Reference to sexual assault and violence against women. Contains mild spoilers for Adolescence. Stills courtesy of Netflix
From Goethe to Novalis, nineteenth-century novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny? Gabrielle Sicam looks to recent books by Anika Jade Levy, Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Wambugu