What is a renaissance? An interview His Holiness Pope Francis on the commodification of our souls. Writer EKOW ESHUN reviews WEB DU BOIS' double consciousness. Curator ARIA DEAN reviews FUTURE's Mask Off and Black excellence. Photographer STEPHEN SHORE, in conversation with JACK SELF, reviews pictures of the present. Artist ISSY WOOD reviews Diet Coke. Editor and NHS worker REBECCA SHARP reviews the SOCIALIST PATIENTS COLLECTIVE, while BRADY NG and HERA CHAN review Hong Kong protest strategies.