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“When we keep saying cinema is dead or dying, we lose sight of what we have actually lost and what might still be possible, even as so much about the art form continues to change. ”

In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for

Just over twenty years ago, in April 2006, British media gave generous space to film and photographs of a sled hauled over a vast expanse of snow by a

In 1960 the writer Bessie Head—yet to publish the novels that would make her a leading figure in South African and Batswana literature—interviewed a young

“One of my guiding principles as a white American writing about the US is that it’s important to include yourself in your analysis, to acknowledge your own complicity or at least involvement in the country’s history or power. ”

With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses

Until Greece annexed Salonica in 1912, it had long been a city where ‘all peoples’ used to pass. How did its Jews come to be eliminated and their history erased?

One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.

The idea of home—in a city, in one’s body, in a corpus of visual art—runs through a new show of inventive work by the Lebanese artist Huguette Caland.

In Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s new paintings, mourners find clarity through communion—a departure for an artist known for her masterful portraits of solitude.

Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.

With their blend of taste and market savvy, literary agents have been both invisible and necessary in contemporary American fiction.

With Keir Starmer’s and his party’s future in doubt after local elections in May, there is a paucity of talent among his rivals.

Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.