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

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.

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 ...

Ten days ago, Andy Burnham stood outside Number 10 and announced a ‘circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward ...

Narendra Modi has had his hand forced by a group of meme-making students and members of the Indian working class.

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of ...

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 ...

Before he reworked his teenage diary into a memoir, he convinced his father, Thomas, to dictate his own autobiography; this ...

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Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For decades, ...

I n the late ​ 160s ad, Roman recruiters fanned out across the islands east of Jutland, which had long sent its young men to serve on the empire’s Rhine frontier. The armies o ...