Karin

There can’t be many more significant 21st-century artists than Karin Dreijer, AKA Fever Ray. In and out of the Knife, their band with sibling Olof, they’ve created powerful, original outsider art in visual media, written an opera and treated gigs like Marina Abramović installations. In smartly choreographed performance, they play with identity and anonymity with thrilling verve, until you never know – or care – who’s singing or playing on stage. Yet their most recent album, 2017’s Plunge, was brittle and abrasive, with…

A recommendation from Oprah is enough to launch any book into the bestsellers list, but it still can’t explain why one 1999 work of Black feminist thought has recently become the designated emotional handbook of the heartbroken. If you’ve not read All About Love by bell hooks, you’ve probably had it recommended to you – or at least seen extracts on Instagram accounts like @savedbythebellhooks, where stills from the 90s teen show Saved By the Bell are matched with lengthy quotes on patriarchal masculinity and revolutionary…

The English title of the latest novel in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, and the first written by a woman, will be The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons.The first three books – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest – were written by Larsson and published posthumously after his sudden death in 2004.Larsson had planned for the series to include 10 books, and in 2015 the next book in the series, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz,…

RTL Deutschland Transformed: From Content Champion to Content, Tech, & Data Powerhouse The future has long since begun! The media industry is becoming increasingly data-driven due to its complexity. Consequently, a strong combination of data, analytics, and media expertise is needed to maintain the pole position in the competition. RTL Deutschland, part of the Bertelsmann Group, now finds itself on the ever-important journey to becoming the technology leading media business. For Europe’s largest cross-media…