Dealing with poignant, contemporary themes, Brazilian drama The Battle of Shangri-la features a strong central performance and adept filmmaking

Adrien Martinez explores social isolation, relationships, and subjectivity in the digital age through the eyes of an obsessive, lonely, and damaged outcast.

Here are our recommendations for female artists to keep an eye out for in 2021

Bored of your nails? Here are some simple nail art ideas that you can re-create at home

Rhiannon Ingle ruminates on the prominence of coffee and café culture during Covid

Annie Dabb looks into concerns that the pandemic may have reversed the impacts of modern feminism and sent us back to the era of 1950s housewives

Ayush Ramani explains what NFTs are and how they’re going to be a big part of the future of finance

Clementine Lawrence explores the ways in which political satire has become a double-edged sword

Biden’s sanctions on Russia yet his softness on China, present a gloomy future for the Universal Human Rights idea and oppressed peoples.

After the US imposed sanctions on Russia for the poisoning of its opposition leader, what should we expect from the Biden Administration’s approach to foreign policy?

The first stage of bringing fusion power to the national grid is underway

We ask our contributors: what album cover art has stuck with you over time?

We take a look at a panel celebrating women and non-binary people that are making waves in various parts of the media world

Books and Instagram are an unlikely match but bookstagrams continue to grow in popularity in the UK. We spotlight another account for the second article in our series on UK based bookstagrams.

Aileen Loftus takes a look at some lockdown children’s titles, as well loved fictional characters face life in lockdown

Burnt Sugar is the debut novel by Avni Doshi. The book has just been recognised by the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction long list, and it deserves a spot on the shortlist.

Thomas Moore and Ellen Conlan Ellis’ new collaborative series for The Mancunion explores Roman mythology in a brand new way

Head Theatre Editor Jay Darcy interviews Danny Gray, the founder of men’s make-up brand War Paint, in the fifth feature of his social media series

Wearing masks of the Senior Leadership’s faces, Manchester Nancy Out campaign staged a sit-in to protest the ‘lack of action’ from the University following the vote of no confidence

Ever wondered which side-character you are, based on your star sign, in Friends? Of course you have!