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For TANK, economist Ann Pettifor breaks down the theory underpinning her new book, The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet, and reveals how we may all be embroiled in a giant gambling ring.

At Art Week Tokyo (AWT), artists assemble to interrogate the meaning of realism in the “post-truth” age. Shuttled from museum to gallery on AWT’s neon-green buses, Thomas Roueché reports on the dialogues taking place between art, politics and history across Japan’s capital. 

Giorgio Armani has long been associated with muted tones, precise cutting and a kind of post-gender sophistication, a legacy that continues to grow in the wake of his death in 2025. Caroline Issa considers what made the Italian designer's work so consequential.

A trip to Mongolia becomes a test of sobriety, faith and technological dependence. In his journey from the steppe to the city, Jacob Dreyer collides against the risks of solitude and the desire for companionship.

Gay culture has never been more visible – or more safe. Matteo Pini explores the erosion of transgression in an era of apparent liberation.

Prediction markets, which hit record trade volume in 2025, may not only be forecasting the future but manipulating it. As the market continues to boom, Ayesha A. Siddiqi considers the impact of uncertainty, crises, and politics being turned into tradeable assets.

Playing Project Zomboid, one can be a risk-taker or a survivalist. Considering the zombie apocalypse game through a Thoreauvian lens, Will Wiles asks what it means to stay alive when death is inevitable.  

What can Kleinian psychoanalysis teach us about the recent spate of race riots in the UK? Emily Steer investigates the paranoid-schizoid position of the far right. 

Scent, both potent and imperceptible, constructs environments that invisibly influence our behaviour. Billie Muraben meets artist Racheal Crowther to discuss her upcoming show Liquid Trust, which exposes smell as intoxicant, control mechanism and potential weapon. 

Masoud Golsorkhi traces what links the history of Microsoft Powerpoint, management consultancy and ancient Egyptian propaganda.

On the Indonesian island of Sumba, alive with water buffalo, surfers, and Sandalwood horses, Masoud Golsorkhi reports on the honeymooners drifting through its raw, wind-carved coasts. 

In Montreal, the 19th edition of the MOMENTA Art Biennale, an aerial view provides a key perspective over an art world mediated by technology and, perhaps, uncertain of where it stands.

In Lithuania, a giant Tony Soprano co-exists with crumbling post-Soviet architecture. At the installation Ferma by Gabija Grušaitė, Sofia Hallstrom asks: what can hoarding teach us about memory, resilience and transgenerational inheritance?

Drifting away from the African continent over 160 million years ago, Madagascar evolved in almost complete isolation, making it a vast petri dish of unparalleled biodiversity. Exploring the island by boat, helicopter and perilous trek, Masoud Golsorkhi reveals Madagascar’s animal and human histories.

In the Gulf of Chiriquí, blue-footed boobies and Halloween crabs help to make Islas Secas some of Panama’s most extravagantly wild isles. Nell Whittaker reports.

Jeremy King, London's most stylish restaurateur, has built a career marked by high-stakes gambles and a resounding spirit of generosity. On the site of his latest venture at Simpson’s in the Strand, he spoke to TANK about what gives a restaurant its soul.

Robotic exoskeletons have a long, murky history. In Snowdonia, Matteo Pini straps on an AI-powered suit and discovers the awkward, exhilarating future of assisted movement.

Once a lakeside haven for Europe’s elite, Locarno has evolved into a stage for the politics and poetics of cinema. Cici Peng reports from the town's 78th annual Film Festival.

What connects Obama, Zohran Mamdani and Lily Allen? Masoud Golsorkhi investigates in the editor's letter, read by Caroline Issa and taken from the 2025 Travel issue of TANK.

In the wake of the insurgent AI takeover and Israel's flagrant disregard for international law in its assault on Gaza, Masoud Golsorkhi reflects on Jia Zhang-ke's 2024 film Caught by the Tides, and the momentous consequences that individual action can have upon history at large.

From the jolly naffness of Changing Rooms to the glitz of Selling Sunset, TV shows about property reveal that as housing becomes less attainable, its value in entertainment skyrockets. Caroline Issa reads from Billie Muraben's essay on the strange world of contemporary housing.

Masoud Golsorkhi speaks to Faisal Devji on his new book Waning Crescent, an inquiry into why the Islamic movements of the 20th century – militancy, modernism, Islamism – have all run out of steam.

In Florence, a new perfume is launched – and this one is inspired by a silver fish that feeds on algae and has equisitely sweet flesh. 

Philosopher-bard of the apocalypse John Maus reflects on the role of art as resistance, why he was at the Capitol on January 6th, and why pop music should remain haunted.

Erik Davis discusses his canonical book High Weirdness, an enquiry into the thin line between psychosis and religious experience in 1970s, post-hippie California.

Jelly shots, poisoned fish, artichoke plants breaking under their own weight: the poetry in Rosie Stockton's 'Fuel' contends with the detritus of our late capitalist hellscape. Stockton reads three poems from the collection. 

Vincenzo Latronico reads from his pointed and entertaining novel 'Perfection', which maps the past two decades of globalisation, digital expansion, and middle class anxiety.

Architect Nigel Coates’ latest project sees him combine forces with Architectural Association students to breathe new life into a lonely, polluted corner of Venice. Thomas Roueché discusses.

Zines are defined by their hyperfocus, personality, and refusal to conform to the publishing institutions. Not sure where to begin? Listen to our guide to the zine and what it means.

Around the world, between the defined borders of sovereign nations lie thousands of extraterritorial zones, operating autonomously and often exempt from international law. In this week's TANK Podcast, Atossa Abrahamian discusses her book The Hidden Globe, a history of this strange parallel universe and its relation to the global elite who benefit from it.

A dazzling exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals Cartier's proud heritage of unmatched craftsmanship and its unrivalled clientele. Olivia Barrett is seduced by a resplendent amethyst brooch, gifted by Jacques Cartier to his wife.

Quinn Slobodian’s newest book, Hayek’s Bastards, tracks the movement of 20th Century neoliberalism into the far-right populism of the modern day. He speaks to Kojo Koram on the book for this week's TANK Podcast.

In this week's podcast, Jeremy Atherton Lin reads from “Deep House”, his tender and charged memoir on sex, housing precarity and the strange history of American gay rights legislation. 

Portuguese director Miguel Gomes abandons all realism in his new film Grand Tour, a thrilling exploration of puppetry, anachronism, and the colonial subject, one that won him Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. TANK's assistant editor Matteo Pini spoke to Gomes on the unconventional production of the film. 

The publishing industry appears in rom-coms at a truly unlikely frequency. Matteo Pini explores how the rom-com – from You’ve Got Mail to The Proposal – reveals an industry formed by desire as much as the market.

Across five decades of work, the poet CAConrad has gained renown as “the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry”. Here, they are joined by artist-filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, for a reading and discussion that took place at TANK GPS in early 2025.

Writers Abdulrazak Gurnah and Nadifa Mohamed discuss democratic backsliding and Zanzibar history over lunch at Clipstone restaurant. Read the full conversation in the Summer 2025 issue of TANK.

Multidisciplinary artist Sophia Al Maria discusses her post-individual artmaking practice and her surprise career in music. 

6a architects director Owen Watson discusses his firm's philosophy, which emphasises transparency, sustainability, and the use of available materials.

Artistic director of Frieze London discusses curation, embodiment and how she keeps the capital's most famous art fair dynamic. 

Has the UK got a productivity problem? Clinging to the past and reluctant to assess the future, the failure of the British political class to get it done is as evident in the stalling HS2 project as it is in the official census. Masoud Golsorkhi addresses the problem head-on.

Shumon Basar considers Lady Gaga, artifice and the beautiful frontiers of capitalism in this piece, taken from the TANK archive.

Matteo Pini discusses alchemy, cabinets of curiosity, and the 155-year heritage of Penhaligon’s perfume.

Ahead of the opening of “Hamad Butt: Apprehensions” at Whitechapel Gallery on 4th June, Thomas Roueché considers toxicity and sublimity within the late artist's work.

In Milan, a literary club hosted by Miu Miu considers embodiment and gendered experience through novels by Fumiko Enchi and Simone de Beauvoir. Nell Whittaker reports.   

In this week's TANK Podcast, taken from the archives, artist Hannah Black considers the racialised and gendered implications of gossip across history. 

Property shapes our lives and dreams – which take place within and outside the permanent state of urgency, scarcity, disenfranchisement and desire called the “global housing crisis”. For TANK, Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Aurelia Guo discuss the personal and political dimensions of housing.

In this week's TANK Podcast, taken from the TANK archive, Stewart Jeffries considers Oliviero Toscani’s subversive advertising campaigns for Benetton in the 1980s and 1990s, both commended and condemned for their provocative depictions of an aspirationally globalised world. As much as his work clashed with cultural realities, Toscani's images remain a rich historical source to trace our divergence from this once progressive, utopian vision.

“This was a particularly British kind of hell: a place where nice-looking ladies in hand-knitted jumpers hand out teacakes and trade transphobic handicrafts; a place where community, identity and claims to the moral high ground are founded upon a surprisingly voracious capacity for hate.”

Rosanna McLaughlin recounts her trip into the bizarre world of the annual LGB Alliance Conference, an organisation fuelled by a “cocktail of community and enmity”.

“My euphoric epiphany happened almost a decade ago in the drab Euston office block of Landmark Forum, an organisation that markets professional and personal development courses.” Emily Steer recounts her experience with mass self-improvement therapy.