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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.
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
The annual cherry-blossom moment makes personal and collective life-cycles rhyme (archive)
A Tibetan activist finds a novel way of subverting - and irritiating - China's power (archive)
Kasia Boddy celebrates the brief reign of screwball's madcap women
Cristian Mungiu makes humane, engaging art from
the bleakness of a young woman's illegal abortion
The shift from polymath to expert has diminished, but not withered, the garden of knowledge
Mai Ghoussoub explores the power of a prize-winning image of war-torn Beirut (archive)
France's pioneering feminist still shines on her centenary (archive)
The inspirational composer, who died on 13 December 1981, remains a rich resource for fellow-musicians
Pippi
Longstocking's creator wrote for children and fought for justice
A combative literary persona was forged in the
symbolism of the ring
The Nobel literature award honours an eternal
outsider
The words of the fearless journalist murdered a year ago still burn (archive)
In an old civilisation's millennium, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's voice will be heard (archive)
The Geneva conventions began 143 years ago. Today, sophistry endangers the rights they protect (archive)
"Friends and neighbours became enemies." As Pakistan celebrates, Maruf Khwaja recalls the pain of birth (archive)
Forty-one years after the cultural revolution began, China's heritage faces another potent threat (archive)
The great director was at the heart of Sweden's cultural life for sixty years, but it was a conflictual as well as intimate bond
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