If you were captivated by the recent HBO series, Chernobyl, and especially the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko and her husband, Vasily, one…
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When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily…
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The Edinburgh Festival is a carnival of creatives. A buzzing experience that I have to undertake every year. I have seen some…
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We love street art and anything that really makes the environment a brighter place to be. Illustrator Aaron Givens recently won a…
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The film channel here in Japan likes to show things in sequence, so it was that I spent a recent winter’s evening…
