The Swedish pop queen is back with a taboo-smashing exploration of female desire during pregnancy – and you can dance to it

The new Gorillaz album is a triumph. It also landed its chief creator with more accusations of cultural appropriation

The disposable nappy is a hugely important labour-saving invention. But it is also an environmental disaster that is now worn by toddlers

Belgian idealist Paul Otlet imagined a global information network that would unite humanity. How right – and wrong – he was

Our writers on their cultural highlights of the year

In 1975, Britain was mired in economic misery – but the nation’s most terrifying cook was determined that everyone should still eat well

Eugene Hütz and his band turn the Council of Europe into a carnival of defiance

The new David Bowie Centre fails when it reduces his ambiguities to tidy lessons – and soars when it simply shows off stagewear and possessions

A selection of New World writers and editors choose the books they can’t stop recommending

HUNTR/X – stars of Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters – are female, fictional and seemingly unstoppable

As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

The Beach Boy is gone - and as Trump’s troops stalk LA, the state’s sun-drenched dream is over too

Estonian Tommy Cash’s Espresso Macchiato mocks Italians. Is he a prankster, or a racist?

A new museum in Alicante celebrates the Jesus of Madrid

Her association with the Rolling Stones meant she was dismissed as a ‘muse’ – but she overcame misogyny and drug addiction to become an experimental artist of rare breadth

A whole host of alumni from the contest will release new music, and perhaps lift spirits, in 2025

Colourful stories abound of how France’s vintners tricked and humiliated the occupying Germans in world war two. But the truth is rather more complex

A string of new music this year provided beautiful and uplifting sounds, but with a dark undercurrent

The flawed star who floored a nation