Ammar Kalia

On 4 August 2020, Fouad Elkoury was sitting in his home in Beirut when an enormous explosion at the port shattered his windows and...

The first time writer Lucy Prebble met singer-songwriter Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, they both walked out of the West End play...

“People need to stop telling me to ‘just get on with it’ if I want to have children,” Jen Cleary says, clearly exasperated. “Most of my...

“When someone dies, there are always questions that will be left unanswered. But what happens when you lose someone and they leave you a...

On a bare black stage, Jonny Leitch is remembering an act of kindness: a janitor offering him a stick of gum while he sat in a hospital...

“We should go to the Ibiza closing parties,” my dad blurts out, driving through the rain in Hounslow. It is 2015; I am 21 and for the...

Ask anyone the question ‘what music do you listen to?’ and you are likely to be met with a confounding response that is by turns...

There are, according to the academic Emmett Price, “six degrees of Harry Pace”. He is referring to the man born in 1884 who founded...

There is a peculiar romance to British summer music festivals. Some kind of consequence-free hedonism emerges when you combine bouts of...

Music moves differently depending on the space it’s played in. A typical pre-Covid Wednesday evening at the Matchstick Piehouse in London...

For most people on the planet, 2020 was a year spent stuck indoors. During that period Naomi Saalfield, AKA Nai Palm, lead singer of the...

“Brown people don’t get enough credit for what they’ve done for popular culture and its subcultures in the UK,” 24-year-old DJ and...

The workplace sitcom is more popular than ever. During the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020, US audiences streamed 57 billion minutes of the...

A cursory scroll through the Explore page on Instagram can feel like a visual assault: sponsored content, taunting influencer pictures...

There is a joyous moment halfway through R&B singer Serpentwithfeet’s latest single, Same Size Shoe. In a tender falsetto, he calls for...

Keith Brymer Jones is talking about pots and crying. “I get emotional,” says the master potter, “because it’s a craft I love. It is my...

These weeks of locked-down working and living at home mean, for many, immersion in our housemates’ Zoom meetings through the walls,...

2002 was a bumper year for romcoms. Banking on the commercial safety of a saccharine love story, studios splashed out on everything from...

“There’s nothing political about these shows, nothing really edgy in there.” Far from a criticism, Henry Shields, the co-founder of the...

Michael, Scottie, Dennis, Phil and Steve. Like the members of a new, wildly popular boyband, these names are permanently etched in my...