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1908 etching by German artist Markus Böhmer on reading the news
Each of us, reading day after day this endless stream of news German artist Markus Böhmer, 1908
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Beatlemania on the pages of the Daily Mirror in November 1963
Beatlemania, provoking emotions as on a painting by Munch
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Grant Newsham on the 3 November Northern Mariana Islands election and China's role
Grant Newsham, a retired US Marine Corps officer and former diplomat, has published a column in Asia Times on the elections in the Northern Mariana Islands. The islands form a Commonwealth, that is, a US territory in the western Pacific whose inhabitants hold American citizenship. On 3 November some 50,
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Gill and Craven report proposes cutting Church of England dioceses from 42 to 30
Church advised to cull its bishops to avoid ruin So ran the ironic headline in a recent issue of The Times, which summarised the report "Wasted Money in a Shrinking Church", written by the theologian Canon Robin Gill, a former adviser to the Archbishops of Canterbury Robert Runcie
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The Ramayana in Hollywood Cinema, from “A Little Princess” to Nitesh Tiwari’s Film
I have read a piece on how Hollywood cinema makes use of the Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic in Sanskrit which tradition ascribes to the poet Valmiki. The epic tells of the exile of Prince Rama, the abduction of his wife Sita by the demon Ravana, and her rescue. In
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Martin McDonagh directs Wild Horse Nine, about CIA agents on Easter Island
I read that Martin McDonagh, the author of "In Bruges", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and "The Banshees of Inisherin", has made a new film, Wild Horse Nine. John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play the CIA agents Chris and Lee. In 1973 they have
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British author finds her autism in “Amélie” as the post's author voices doubts
I have been reading how a young British authoress recognised herself in the heroine of the film "Amélie". She was, so we are told, diagnosed with "autism" in her early twenties, although her parents had suspected it since childhood, because she had no friends and could
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Professor Mie Oba proposes Japan as ASEAN's third partner alongside the US and China
Professor Oba Mie of Kanagawa University writes that Japan could become a third partner for the ASEAN countries alongside the USA and China. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations preserves its independence under the slogan of "centrality": the bloc's members seek to remain the principal forum
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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church
In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the
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Asia Times journalist Gabriel Honrada writes that reports of a Chinese satellite being refuelled in orbit have sharpened the US–China rivalry in space
Asia Times journalist Gabriel Honrada writes that reports of a Chinese satellite being refuelled in orbit have sharpened the US–China rivalry in space. In September the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that Chinese researchers had announced the first refuelling of a navigation satellite in high orbit.
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The Guardian has published a lengthy conversation with the writer Salman Rushdie, his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the director Alex Gibney
The attack on the writer took place on 12 August 2022 in Chautauqua, in upstate New York, where Rushdie was due to speak. Griffiths was at home in New York that morning and learned of what had happened by telephone from an acquaintance, the details reaching her only later through
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While in France the Musée Picasso prepares to issue officially a new edition of bronze sculptures by the late artist, in Russia a case is raging over the sale of forged casts of works by Ernst Neizvestny and their display at the Tretyakov Gallery
This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is