Review of the Week: Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations
The sculptor’s joyous, organic creations, repurposed and reimagined from everyday objects, speak to each other beautifully in her new exhibition, writes Emily LaBarge
I was a teenage Pet Shop Boys fan. Decades later, they’re always on my mind
As a 13-year-old in Saudi, Arwa Haider wore the band’s T-shirts under her abaya. Now a new book and gigs by the duo, and a major exhibition on youth culture, are shining a light on the overlooked power of fandom
The best culture to check out this week – from a Tony-winning high-school stage drama to Riz Ahmed’s new comedy series – as picked by our team of editors and writers
Orwell, Trump and the persistence of fascism: ‘He was giving us a warning’
Raoul Peck, director of a new film about the author, tells Dorian Lynskey that the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four was drawn from lived experience, not prophecy
Babies, boobs and pop bangers! The Swedish star is back with a euphoric new album embracing the joy of motherhood and messy, middle-aged desire, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson
The best culture to check out this week - from musician James Blake on fine form to a dive into Hokusai's Great Wave - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
SNL UK proved everyone wrong: it’s a big, British, Saturday riot
The US sketch-show behemoth didn’t seem like a natural export, but it has pulled together the biggest collection of homegrown talent in years, writes comedian Max Olesker
‘It’s everyone’s history’: the artist Hurvin Anderson on his Tate Britain retrospective
The Turner prize-nominated painter, whose luminous canvases span portraiture, barbershop interiors and the lush landscapes of his Jamaican heritage, talks to Nerve art critic Emily LaBarge
Review of the Week: Summerfolk at the National theatre
Maxim Gorky’s pre-revolutionary play about wealthy Russians on the brink of chaos is reborn in a five star, distinctly relevant revival, writes Nerve theatre critic Dorian Lynskey
'I realised I had to do it for women’: Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur on Courtney Love, capitalism and sisterhood
As her new memoir is published, the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist answers the Nerve Q&A on love, sex, the corrupting effect of money and patriarchy – and tells Kate Hutchinson how everything changed in the 90s, the ‘last analogue decade’
The best culture to enjoy this week - from powerful civil rights photography to a new angle on Austen - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
John Patton Ford's remake of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets updates the old film for the oligarch era with leading man Glen Powell and some deserving 21st-century victims, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
The best culture to enjoy this week - from Kim Gordon’s new album to Rachel Weisz’s steamy Netflix fantasy - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers
Britain’s ailing construction industry should be embracing high-profile figures like builder-turned-MP Hannah Spencer. And why is the built environment media largely ignoring this positive news, asks architecture writer Phineas Harper
Is pop star Sienna Rose really a singer? And is she really Black?
The soul sensation – who started off as a white redhead – is seemingly taking music born of authenticity and community and reducing it to code. What does it mean if the making of music is taken over by machines?, asks Kadish Morris
The kitsch live version of the singer’s gut-punch breakup album West End Girl feels, appropriately, like theatre, but somehow lacks a joyful climax, writes Nerve music critic Kate Hutchinson
The best culture to enjoy this week - from Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold take on Frankenstein to Tracey Emin's deeply poignant Tate show - as seen and enjoyed by our team of editors and writers
