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In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. The film centres around a couple whose otherwise perfect relationship is...

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

It has been 93 years since the first performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good...

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Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Originality could be dead in pop music. The genre is so self-referential that it...

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Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

In the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers mark the beginning of spring on the date of...

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The tradition of ignorance in English travel writing

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‘Sehnsucht’ and life’s insatiable longing

The desire for the unattainable is both the inspiration for great art and the catalyst for great sorrow

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Culture

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s theatre: Defining the ill-defined

Authenticity and the pop genre: Slayyyter’s ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’

Why you should spring clean your bookshelf this Trinity

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