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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
In the highly anticipated second film in the popular trilogy all the world is a stage, and its characters merely…
Farewelling Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize winning author died in at her home at the age of 94, leaving behind a legacy of…
The Grandmaster
An historical martial arts epic that is both frenetic and contemplative.
God’s Dog
Italian author Diego Marani’s latest novel imagines a bizarre and intriguing world of thrillers and theocrats.
The world’s most expensive painting: Bacon sells for $152 million
More than friends, Francis Bacon’s triptych of Lucian Freud set world record last night at Christie’s New York sale.
Lily Allen returns, packing heat for feminism
The comeback song from the indie pop songstress takes aim at sexism in the music industry, changing the meaning of…
Facing the overstimulated audience
Festivals can also be places of extreme sensory overload. A recent Situate Lab tackled what that means..
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate, like its subject, is brimming with ideas; also in common: an uneasy sense of identity.
The Past (Le passé)
Asghar Farhadi understands the drama of domesticity, the details – large and small – that eat away at a relationship.
Theatre of the Revolution
In Egypt, where public theatre is often seen as a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the government, independent artists are revolutionaries…