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The 58th iteration of the Umeå Jazz Festival brought some familiar faces to the north of Sweden, offering its usual blend of marquee names and local favourites alongside other enticing if lesser-known acts. The festival also continues to expand its approach to the rest of the city, with a week-long calendar of events heralded by Jazzcafé Swingfabriken astride Umeå University's...

At the beginning of a new week, global cases of coronavirus passed 13 million, with the World Health Organization sending out warning signals as 1 million cases in five days hastened the spread. The precipitous rise was the product of the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, four countries where the bulk of infections were taking place. Surging...

Visiting Iceland earlier in the year, I caught Yearning for Space at Ásmundarsafn in the few days before the exhibition closed. Yearning for Space is the name of an Ásmundur Sveinsson sculpture from 1967, and it indexes the time when the Space Race was at its peak: set off by the successful orbiting of Sputnik 1 in October 1957, after the Soviet...