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.
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 ...
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.
Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with ...
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 ...
Ten days ago, Andy Burnham stood outside Number 10 and announced a ‘circuit breaker for Britain, bringing forward ...
Timothée Birindwa, an emergency health co-ordinator for the International Rescue Committee, arrived in Bunia, ...
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 ...
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of ...