Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and the director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Prashad joins us to discuss former Brazilian President Janio Quadros’ essay in Foreign Affairs “Brazil's New Foreign Policy” (1961), which was a response to the United States attack on Cuba earlier that year. He speaks to Ali Golsorkhi-Ainslie in light of the upcoming presidential election in Brazil.

What does it mean for the world’s oldest champagne house to keep looking forward? Caroline Issa sits down with Ruinart’s Fabien Vallérian, International Director of Arts and Culture, to discuss the house’s approach to working with artists as they celebrate Tadashi Kawamata's Conversations with Nature commission at Frieze this week. From artistic interventions in Reims to keeping legacy balanced with innovation, their conversation explores the landscape as a source of inspiration, the space given to artistic experimentation and the courage to make unexpected choices.

Christabel Stewart talks to Bahar Noorizadeh about her landmark show at The Showroom. Co-curated by Sophia Yadong Hao and The Otolith Collective, the exhibition was first produced by the Cooper Gallery in Dundee and has been reworked for London around a film and a sculptural installation, alongside a new mural on the gallery’s exterior walls. The film, Free to Choose (2023), is a financial sci-fi opera set in a future Hong Kong that imagines the global credit system as a time machine, with a sprightly Milton Friedman trying to make his way back to our troubled present as respite from an even more disastrous imagined future. The Showroom is at 63 Penfold Street, NW8, a short walk from Edgware Road station.

Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and the director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, as well as the author of several books, including The Darker Nations (2007) and Washington Bullets (2020). Vijay joins us to discuss the history surrounding Roberto Fernández Retamar's landmark essay Caliban (1971), a piece situated in a rich history of debate surrounding the emergence of sovereignty in the colonised world.

One of the greatest physicists of his generation, Carlo Rovelli's new book 85 Seconds to Midnight: A Physicist’s Argument against Rearmament is a searing indictment of the short-sighted political logic driving the world toward nuclear catastrophe. Taking its title from the Doomsday Clock, currently set to 85 seconds to midnight, the book looks to the history and potential future of nuclear weaponry, while grappling with what he deems the guilty collective conscience of his profession: the scientists who invented the deadliest weapon ever known. TANK visited Rovelli in his home in Madrid to discuss the book.

Vicky, Lom, Becky and Sommai left home to sell sex in Europe, to support the families they love and chase dreams of their own. Anthropologist Sine Plambech spent two decades alongside them. Here, she reads from Global Sex: What Sex Workers Know About Love and Capitalism, the book she made from those years of field notes.

Following the success of her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, Suzy Hansen's From Life Itself chronicles life under rising authoritarianism in Turkey. In the small neighbourhood of Karagümrük, local concerns over national identity and immigration serve as a metonym for the country, and indeed the world, at large. Here, she reads an excerpt from the new book. 

For TANK, writer Anton Jäger discussed his book Hyperpolitics, a theory of how political action in the modern age has been hollowed out without reinstitutionalisation. From mass movements like Black Lives Matter to the growing power of the British far-right, Jäger outlines how avenues for collective action are increasingly closed off — a world in which people are more politically activated than ever, yet less capable of producing durable change.

After a gruelling month of ready-to-wear collections, Caroline Issa and the team are finally back from Paris. But all's well that ends well, and as always Chanel has provided a happy ending to a season of less than consistently amazing shows. Here are our highlights from the Spring/Summer 2027 collections, from Valentino to Hermès to Miu Miu. In Paris, Saint Laurent painted the city gold and Dior presented a futuristic Jane Austen in a dreamy set; in Milan, Prada centred the skirt and Bottega Veneta celebrated craft; and in London, Emilia Wickstead perfected the art of hosting, featuring none other than London's (and TANK's) favourite host, Jeremy King. Welcome to flavour country. 

For its fortieth anniversary, Italian footwear brand Hogan divided its history into four decades and entrusted each decade, and its defining shoe, to four young Italian directors from the Centro Sperimentale school of film to tell a story of their choosing. Here Sarah Narducci, responsible for the second decade, the 1990s, sets her film on its final night, when the world was supposed to end.

For some time now, artists, politicians, writers, thinkers and economists have been preoccupied with flux and motion: the flow states peddled by psychologists, the churn of the art market, the vast networks that carry global trade. Welcome to the Movement Issue.

A video accompaniment to an autumn editorial by Elliot James Kennedy and Eve Bailey. Art direction by Valentina De Zanche, movement direction by Alexandra Green, set design by Darcy Norgan, hair by Maki Tanaka, make-up by Jinny Kim using Chanel Coco Mademoiselle and No.1 de Chanel Body Serum-in-Mist, production by Lucio Martus, casting by Lucy Rogers, photography assistants Myles Bailey and Sam Court, styling assistant Olivia Fortmuller and Lucy McNeil, production coordinator Luana Viegas, models Sam Dilkes at Chapter Management, Nicole Nevitt and Ronan Cardoza. 

A video accompaniment to an autumn editorial by Guy Bolongaro. Video by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Noemie Schelbert, hair by Masashi Konno, make-up by Anastasia Borovik, casting by Michiel Van Maaren, production by Ericka Prince at The Production Factory, photography assistants Will Edgecombe and Jamie Iain Genovese, styling assistant Alima Lisa Koné, production assistant Jago Clark at The Production Factory, model Sophie Patrece Embleton at Next Management. 

Carlo Rovelli is a distinguished theoretical physicist and the author of best-selling books that describe the latest scientific research for a general public. In his latest book On the Equality of All Things (2026) he turns to philosophy to consider the deeper implications of quantum physics and the nature of reality and the universe.

A video accompaniment to an autumn editorial by Melissa Schriek. Video by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Maria Teresa Strippoli, set design by Michael Price, hair by Sundia Wen, make-up by Miki Matsunaga, executive producer Theo Guillemot, production by Constantin Jopeck, casting by Eve Bailey, photography assistant Nathan Zaoui, styling assistant Maxwell Simons, models Henri Vander Maren at Premium and Evgeniia Nirka at Girl Mgmt.

James Meadway is an economist and former Labour Party advisor who recently co-founded Verdant, a Green Party-aligned think tank. Meadway spoke to the TANK team about the future of green politics, AI insurgency and navigating our era of permacrisis. Video by Ali Golsorkhi-Ainslie.

The crying shot is one of the most recognisable images in visual culture, a single frame that can hold an entire emotional arc. For this shoot, we asked six young actors to test that claim. Video by Kat Hanratty, styling by Eve Bailey, hair by Motoharu Iwaizumi using Hair by Sam McKnight, make-up by Maho Moriyama, casting by Lucy Rogers, styling assistants Imogen Hipkin Holland and Rory Fainaru, make-up assistant Yeseul, cast James Copestake, Ayaz Khezrzadeh, Rukaiyah, Juliet Papamarkou and Damsel.  

Vicky, Lom, Becky and Sommai crossed the world to sell sex, to support their loved ones, and chase dreams of their own. Anthropologist Sine Plambech spent two decades alongside them; Global Sex: What Sex Workers Know About Love and Capitalism (2026) is a book made from her years of fieldnotes. For the Movement Issue, she sat down with TANK's Edie Musker to discuss her work. 

A video accompaniment to an autumn editorial. Video by Ali Golsorkhi Ainslie, hair by Alyce Shodai, make-up by Natsu Tomonaga, casting by Eve Bailey, photography assistant Josh Rea, model Kawanny Garcia at Elite Model Management.

Suzy Hansen's latest book, From Life Itself: Turkey and Istanbul in the Age of Erdoğan (2026), delves into currents of geopolitics from the vantage point of a single community. Here, she speaks to TANK's Thomas Roueché. 

At Matthieu Blazy's second couture show for Chanel, the audience is as revealing as the collection. 

Live from the Musée Rodin, Jonathan Anderson's sophomore couture collection for Christian Dior is a journey into a plush, tropical wilderness.  

At Schiaparelli Couture AW27, Daniel Roseberry redefines what it means to do haute couture. From underlit breastplates to sprawling latex wings, Roseberry's display of intergalactic artifice pushes the envelope of what we think we know about the French tradition.

At Armani Privé Couture AW27, tension is everything. Tension between night and day, between rigour and gentleness, between masculine and feminine. The result is a collection which feels markedly intimate, without straying from the elegance prized by the Italian house.  

Andrea Zimmerman is an artist, film maker and activist; their upcoming book, Long Grass in the Wind is a rich collection of essays by writers from West Bank and beyond. Here, they discuss Je tu il elle, Akerman's debut feature, which she made aged 24. Je tu il elle is a radical and restrained film, profoundly solipsistic and experimental. Topics of conversations include lesbian sexuality and one's role within their own narrative – what it means to step away from your own story. Watch the rest of the season here. 

Ajay Hothi is a writer, documentary maker and senior lecturer at Kingston University, as well as former director of TANK.tv. Here, he discusses Akerman's Sud (1999) – a meditative and psychological investigation into the murder of a Southern American black man, James Byrd, Jr., at the hands of white supremacists. Hothi, plucking from his own experience as a filmmaker, elaborates on the moral and aesthetic obligations of the documentary, and the success at which Akerman is able to balance the serene beauty of the Texan hinterlands without romanticising or otherwise compromising the harrowing testimonies of the interviewees. Watch the rest of the season here. 

Kiefer Nyron Taylor is a documentarian and photographer based in London. Here, he discusses No Home Movie, Akerman's final work, which is a documentary of simplistic but compelling video call footage between her and her elderly mother, interspersed with ethereal and deliberate shots of isolated landscapes – amongst them Maman’s sleepy Brussels flat. Akerman’s mother died shortly after filming ended, and the director herself by suicide the following year. This depiction of maternity is complicated, however, by the fact that one of the landscapes depicted was the Negev-Naqab desert in Israel-Palestine, the site of Israel’s founding myth (“Let the desert bloom”) and justification for the destruction of the Palestinians. Watch the rest of the season here. 

The Australian producer on Catholicism, motherhood and forgiveness.

The ambient pioneers discuss their excellent, unsettling new album Paradessence.

The alt-pop innovator on dreaming, Eurovision and the solitude of Oslo.

The Swedish synth-pop star on TikTok, tearing up and trusting your instincts.

The electronic experimentalist on Christianity, Houston, and his sprawling new album Eroica 2: Christian Nihilism.