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Sasha Mistlin

Sasha Mistlin is a commissioning editor on the Guardian's Saturday magazine and a former recipient of the Scott Trust bursary

August 2024

  • Wunderhorse. L-R : Jamie Staples, Jacob Slater, Harry Fowler, Peter Woodin

    ‘We like it when things fall apart’: heavy rockers Wunderhorse on embracing music’s messy side

    Jacob Slater was a surf coach in Newquay when he was cast as the Sex Pistols’ drummer in Danny Boyle’s TV series Pistol, but as the singer’s latest album with his band Wunderhorse confirms, he will always be drawn to chaos

July 2024

  • Nigel Farage speaks in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 27 June.

    There is a reason Nigel Farage hails Andrew Tate. And we should worry that young people are listening

    Sasha Mistlin
    The politics of resentment are attractive to a generation that has known so much precarity, says Guardian Saturday commissioning editor Sasha Mistlin

March 2024

  • Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch in Bob Marley: One Love.

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #131: Are music biopics the new superhero films?

    In this week’s newsletter: Forever searching for box office hits, studios are looking to cash in with the origin stories of bands and struggling musicians

December 2023

  • Fully empowered … Britney Spears, Germán Bringas and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats

    Best music of 2023
    From Britney to Germán Bringas: the best old music our writers discovered in 2023

  • ‘Scrappy but opulent’ … Nourished by Time, Jane Remover and Pupil Slicer

    2023 in Culture
    The five-star albums we missed in 2023 – from Jane Remover to Jalen Ngonda

November 2023

  • A devastating jolt to the heart … (L-R) Beverley Knight, Azealia Banks and Jeff Tweedy from Wilco.

    ‘A reminder that life has to be lived’: the lyrics that got us through 2023

  • Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #114: This generation of epic filmmakers is ageing – but the cavalry is coming

October 2023

  • Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy in Mean Streets, 1973.

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #109: Martin Scorsese’s lessons on masculinity

  • Earl Sweatshirt

    ‘I had to make myself inhabitable’: Earl Sweatshirt on remaking his hip-hop persona

September 2023

  • Chris Fonseca in rehearsals for Follow the Signs at Soho theatre.

    ‘I think it’s a new artform’: Chris Fonseca, the man bringing Deaf dance to the mainstream

  • Dominic Fike

    ‘Whatever I do, I do too much of it’: the troubled rise of Dominic Fike

March 2023

  • Ellie Violet Bramley tries taramasalata

    ‘You’ve never eaten a banana?!’ 10 writers face their fiercest – and strangest – food fears

  • Andrew Tate arrives in court to attend his appeal in Romania<br>BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - FEBRUARY 01: Former kickboxer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrive in court to attend their appeal in Bucharest, Romania on February 01, 2023. (Photo by Alex Nicodim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Why too many young men love Andrew Tate – and why we need to understand that, not dismiss it

    Sasha Mistlin

January 2023

  • Colin Grant, at home in Brighton.

    ‘My father ruled through pain’: Colin Grant on the stories behind I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be

    As a child he knew both love and violence; as an adult, both recognition and rejection. The writer talks about his marijuana-dealer father, his clashes at the BBC and the police stop-and-searches that drove him out of London

August 2022

  • The dating app Tinder is shown on a mobile phone

    Swipe right: the decade that changed dating
    I’m a dating app evangelist – but even I’m not on Tinder any more

    Sasha Mistlin
    I loved the freedom of online dating – but discovered meeting people is no guarantee of building a lasting connection, says Alex Mistlin, a commissioning editor on Guardian Saturday
  • Margin Call

    Everyone’s a cynic! Film, TV, music, books and art about pessimism

    From Wall Street savagery to withering R&B, choose art that shows humanity at its most misanthropic
  • Bean there … Annibale Carracci’s The Beaneater.

    Cultural prescription
    Food for thought: film, music and art to help you through the cost of living crisis

    From a 16th-century worker’s humble lunch to raging rap, our critics find the works that grapple with the challenges of hard times

July 2022

  • 2001, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN<br>MARIBEL VERDU, DIEGO LUNA &amp; GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Character(s): Luisa Cortes, Tenoch Iturbide, Julio Zapata Film 'Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN' (2001) Directed By ALFONSO CUARON 08 June 2001 AFF22922 Allstar/ANHELO PRODUCCIONES (Y tu mamá también, MEX 2001) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of ANHELO PRODUCCIONES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To ANHELO PRODUCCIONES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Cultural prescription
    Driven to distraction: the best film, music, games and more to prepare for a road trip

    From a coming-of-age tale in rural Mexico to zen thoughts on London’s streets, our critics get their cultural motors running
  • Loyle Carner

    Loyle Carner: ‘There’s a whole other side to me that’s darker’

    UK hip-hop’s Mr Nice Guy is getting angry – digging into racism, his mixed-race heritage and his relationship with his estranged father
  • Jude Law in The Talented Mr Ripley.

    Cultural prescription
    The green-eyed monster: music, film and comedy about jealousy

    From Beyoncé’s rage-fuelled anthem to Munch’s tortured portrait of his muse, our critics explore the art of jealousy
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