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Summer Through Mastermind: Girlhood by Stef Mitchell

Photographer Stef Mitchell captures girlhood on the cusp in a coming-of-age story, first published in Mastermind 08.

Features - Film / Recommendations

Five Documentaries that Capture the Feeling of Summer

From surfers chasing an endless summer to lost festival footage decades in the making, these are the documentaries that best capture the sunny season.

Words by Caitlin Hennessy
Photo by Jack Tinney/Getty Images

Features - News

The Accidental Communities of Summer 2026

How a record-breaking summer pushed Parisians, Bostonians and New Yorkers to find solace in community.

Words by Grace Jewitt
Photograph by Marc Shelly

Features - Literature / Recommendations

What the Mastermind Team Is Reading this Summer

From Michigan suburbs to 70,000 years of history, here are this summer's literary picks from the Mastermind team.

La Collectionneuse (1985) CAP/SFS Image supplied by Capital Pictures / Alamy

Features - Film

Six Summer Films about Skipping Town

Stolen cars, borrowed boats and one-way tickets – these films give a whole new meaning to the “summer getaway.”

Words by Elspeth Mair
Thelma and Louise (1991) directed by Ridley Scott / Alamy

Features - Interviews / Literature

Colson Whitehead’s Last Heist

With 'Cool Machine,' the novelist wraps up Ray Carney's decades-spanning double life as furniture salesman inside one sprawling escapade.

Interview by Barry Pierce
Photograph by Chris Close

Features - Art and Architecture

A Curated Companion to the 57th Rencontres d’Arles

From a veiled body wrapped in Sahelian textiles to Patti Smith's voice echoing through LUMA’s La Grande Halle, here's what's worth seeing this year, both on and off the official program.

Words by Justine Sebbag
Paul Kodjo, Abidjan, 1970s, series Les Soirées dansantes [Dance Parties]
Courtesy of Les Rencontres du Sud and in camera galerie.

Features - Film

Christopher Nolan’s Time Warp

From 'Memento' to 'The Odyssey,' director Christopher Nolan has always been obsessed with time, memory and men who can't find their way home.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Still from The Odyssey courtesy of Universal Studios

Features - Food and Travel

Céline Pham is the Toast of the Town

Inspired by her French-Vietnamese heritage, culinary star Céline Pham gained fame as a roving chef and never planned on settling down. Then she discovered love, family and a permanent kitchen in Arles.

Interview by Lindsey Tramuta
Photography by Théo de Gueltzl

Features - Interviews

A School of Thought

Publisher and former French Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen founded the École du Domaine du Possible in Arles to offer a space for freedom and possibilities, where children can use their imagination and become who they really are.

Words by Eugénie Lefebvre
Photography by Théo de Gueltzl

Features - Recommendations

A Cultural Guide to Paris this July

This month Homer gets the Nolan treatment, the Grand Palais goes quantum and an Ai Weiwei re-enactment.

Photograph of Portrait of a Lady on Fire courtesy Neon.

Features - Art and Architecture

A Curated Companion to the Exhibitions Beyond the Venice Biennale

Flesh, lacquer and chess sets made of volcanic stone: the off-site exhibitions that rival, and occasionally upstage, the Biennale itself.