Best culture 2015
The year's cultural highlights, chosen by the Guardian's writers and critics
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The playlistThe playlist: best jazz of 2015 – Kamasi Washington, Joshua Redman, Polar Bear and moreContinuing our series on some of the best music of 2015, here is our critic’s pick of the year’s best jazz tracks – from a new sax star to a hip-hop interpreter
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It’s been a wonderful year for literature so here are the reads we’ve enjoyed the most in 2015, new or not. From poetry to psychoanalysis, fiction to biography, Guardian writers and readers look back
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Some favourite Australian titles of the year, from fresh new fiction to essay collections and a celebrity autobiography with a difference
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From Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker to Stephen Page’s Spear, film critic Luke Buckmaster counts down his favourite Australian films in what was a healthy year for domestic box office takings
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From social commentary to wedding anthems, along with a hip-hop and Afrobeat UK hit in the UK, here are some of the best African songs of the year
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All things Americana (and some that aren’t, really) come under the spotlight in the latest of our roundups of the best music of 2015
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Bold soundscapes, unusual tonalities and beautifully fragmented compositions were among the year’s best experimental music
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From English travelling songs to as thunderous Congolese-European collaboration, we continue our roundup of some of 2015’s best music
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When we asked you to choose the best shows you’ve seen this year, we were flooded with rave reviews – here’s a selection of them
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Metal takes the spotlight in our series rounding up the best tracks from different genres in 2015
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From Simple Minds to Public Enemy, here are the albums our writers turned to when they’d had enough of new releases