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Telling stories about telling stories: Previewing ‘The Antipodes’

In a windowless room in an abstract part of Oriel, I sat in on a rehearsal for Annie Baker’s The Antipodes (2018), on at the Pilch this term. There...

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A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

"The passage of time is a bloodthirsty hound."

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Doctor Zhivago: The banned book the CIA smuggled across the Iron Curtain

“May it make its way around the world. You are hereby invited to watch...

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Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Like millions of other people in recent years, I have fallen victim to the...

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