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Breillat has written and directed fifteen feature films since 1976. One of their major themes is the possibility of taking ...

A man upon a stall may find, And, passing, turn the page that tells A grief – then changed to something else, Sung by a long forgotten mind.

In Middlemarch, Tom McCarthy argues, George Eliot uses her ‘study of provincial life’ as a Trojan Horse to smuggle the continental philosophy of Spinoza and Hegel into the vicarages of middle England.

Is writing a poem work? In the first episode of their series exploring the ways in which poetry responds to our personal and collective challenges, Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar start by considering ...

Ten days ago, Andy Burnham stood outside Number 10 and announced a ‘circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward the biggest changes in the last forty years’. One thing that won’t change is the use ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In April this year, the US Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the grounds that state lawmakers had ...

It could be argued that Christopher Nolan has been remaking the Odyssey for his whole career, and his latest film revisits many of the themes of his earlier movies, as once again a male protagonist ...

James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, a US citizen, was detained by Spanish police on Ibiza earlier this month. He was visiting the Balearic island with his family with a possible view to moving there from their ...

Timothée Birindwa, an emergency health co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee, arrived in Bunia, Ituru province, with his colleagues on 10 June. The Democratic Republic of Congo is ...

Narendra Modi has had his hand forced by a group of meme-making students and members of the Indian working class. It began with an insult. In May, the Chief Justice of India called the unemployed ...