Culture

What to read when you’ve exhausted the works of J.M. Coetzee

A peek inside a lavishly illustrated biography

Plus, an Australian novelist with an uncanny sense of timing

A literary juggernaut skewers contemporary China, blood and banditry in Trinidad and other literary notes

Plus, the Chinese TV show designed to sell the Belt and Road Initiative to children

Plus, an album that resurrects the long-lost songs of the Wolastoqiyik people of Canada

A diva to die for, a pop debut to make Pharrell swoon and other musical notes

One of the world’s largest art studios is in an unexpected location: North Korea. Lena Schipper explores how it mixes propaganda with profit

Bigger really is better

In private, the Pre-Raphaelite painter had a silly side