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Theatre of war: Alistair Moulton Black as Aleksander and Aimee Mica Komorowsky as Mirela in the play Sarajevo.
AIMEE MICA KOMOROWSKY

Hell is others: Sarajevo and the tragedy of intimacy

In war-torn Sarajevo, desire collides with brutality in a play that refuses resolution or easy moral comfort

  • Ashraf Jamal
4 min read
Handmaid’s Tale season 5 CR: Hulu
HULU

One Show, TwoTakes: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ (Season 5)

Guilt and punishment are explored in a ramped-up two-episode premiere of the Margaret Atwood adaptation

  • Sekese Rasephei
  • Kim Windvogel
5 min read
Its eyebrow-raising pick of US rock legend Bob Dylan in 2016 was followed by a rape scandal close to its members that erupted in 2017 and tore the Academy apart, forcing it to postpone the 2018 prize — a first in 70 years.
ALFRED NOBEL

Nobel Literature Prize 2020: Controversy or crowdpleaser?

Names tossed about in the speculation include Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid, Canadian poet Anne Carson, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Hungary’s Peter Nadas and…

  • Pia Ohlin
4 min read
Last resort: The World Bank, seen in discussion above, in 2013. (Stephen Jaffe/IMF/Getty Images)
BAN KI MOON

How do we get beyond ‘business as usual’ after the pandemic?

Charles Eisenstein’s book, Sacred Economics, offers some practical alternatives to neoliberal capitalism

  • Bert Olivier
9 min read
The Le Monde letter triggered a wave of indignation worldwide
CATHERINE DENEUVE

‘Feminist’ Deneuve apologises to sex assault victims

As an actress since she was 17, Deneuve admitted that during her career she had been "a witness to indelicate situations" between men and women.

  • Fiachra Gibbons
4 min read
After the flood
MARGARET ATWOOD

After the flood

Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree.

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read