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arts & culturesWelcome to Arts & Cultures, where you will find world-class reviews of literature, film and music. You will also find kaleidoscopic analysis of everyday objects, from hair to shorelines.
A creative anthropologist's gift is ideas that inform understanding of the human mind and its cultures
The
achievement of a radical filmmaker divides and haunts Italy, thirty-four years after his death
The German-Romanian recipient of the Nobel literature prize eludes readers, media - and translators
The enigmatic urban artist Banksy's return to his home city is a triumph of liberating dissent
The Danish filmmaker uses image as a "celluloid icon" to explore the depths of the Christian unconscious
The great filmmaker's bond with his homeland was conflictual as well as intimate
The passing of a great filmmaker of Alexandria and Egypt casts light on his country’s journey (archive)
In 1969, our authors commented on a "giant leap for mankind". A tour of openDemocracy's archives
A tribute to the radical choreographer who died on 30 June 2009 (archive)
...and let light, air, ideas, energy and people into a modern parliament
The writer and Saqi publisher died on 17 February 2007. Her last article - on Beirut - is here. Plus: memory trio, and life journey
A short, mesmerising story from Tehran about a sniper and his target. It could have been told yesterday, but is in fact a flashback to the Iran-Iraq War
The death of a writer whose generous yet exacting eye mapped an era is a profound loss
The American writer's early diaries map a burning passion for life, ideas and the desired other
A Czech artist’s Europe-wide hoax stirred outrage in Bulgaria. Why that's good news
"Gomorrah", a fearless anatomy of Napoli's mafia, also exposes the new face of global crime
The pre-Olympics Tlatelolco massacre forty years ago remains a site of struggle (archive)
The Dark Knight offers - via Slavoj Zizek - a bleak insight into democracy's post-9/11 moral void
"Everything ends in one minute." Palestine's national poet is dead, his words survive and burn (archive)
The prophetic message of Alexander Solzhenitsyn transcends the circumstances that gave rise to it
Plus: Memorial's tribute, Evgeny Morozov's cyber-war, and the Harvard address
The true project of the great Russian writer was spiritual rather than political
What turns a bystander into a
playwright? And how do you know if you are just preaching to the converted?
Only the best will do when you are working with those seeking asylum.
The love of millions is invested in Bob Dylan. But can we know too much to see him? (archive)
Judith Herrin unearths the roots of the "cosmopolitan" and finds a vital source for understanding the globalised present
A lively London market offers a fresh view of the old story of England as a "heritage in danger"
A passionate, lyrical voice that embraced négritude, Marxism and surrealism is stilled
A Tibetan activist finds a novel way of subverting - and irritiating - China's power (archive)
Cristian Mungiu makes humane, engaging art from
the bleakness of a young woman's illegal abortion
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