John Akomfrah on Stuart Hall: ‘When I first read him, I thought he was white’
The artist is revisiting his three-screen film about the legendary thinker and activist, which takes in jazz, Vietnam, and the family trauma that haunted Hall
December 2021
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
This week in audio: Fat Leonard; Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera; Afterwords: Stuart Hall
The man at the centre of a vast US navy scandal confesses all; the human cost of reality TV; and in praise of the superstar intellectual
September 2021
The Audio Long Read
The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis – podcast
One of Britain’s most influential scholars has spent a lifetime trying to convince people to take race and racism seriously. Are we finally ready to listen?
August 2021
Rightwing culture warriors do not define Britishness
Letters: Readers respond to Kojo Koram’s article about the Tory preoccupation with dictating our national story
Here’s what the right gets wrong about culture: it’s not a monument, but a living thing
Kojo Koram
The Tories see culture as something that needs to be protected, but it’s a shifting landscape transformed by each generation, says Kojo Karam of Birkbeck College
The long read
The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
The long read: As one of Britain’s most influential scholars, Gilroy has spent a lifetime trying to convince people to take race and racism seriously. Is Britain finally ready to listen?
March 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the Windrush generation
These stories of struggle and hope by authors from Andrea Levy to Stuart Hall and Jay Bernard are much more than historical tales
December 2017
Best books of 2017
Best books of 2017: the hits and misses of the publishers’ year
The Man Booker winner, the diary of a junior doctor and the secret lives of cows ... Which books made their publishers proud – and which ones made them envious?
April 2017
Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall review – self-portrait of the British left’s most significant intellect
Stuart Hall’s autobiographical essays trace the undiminishing tugs of Britain and Jamaica on 60 years of scholarship
December 2014
Obituaries of 2014
Stuart Hall remembered by David Lammy
MP David Lammy on the cultural theorist’s intellectual rigour and authority, his early influence on his ideas via the Open University and their subsequent friendship
