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Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine is a Hindu mandala

The 19th-century novelist Honoré de Balzac was Catholic, French to the core and obsessed with the material details of French society. Yet there is something profoundly Hindu in the way he sought to understand the world.

The Conversation

Caught on the jumbotron: How literature helps us understand modern-day public shaming

The scene at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts on July 16 was steeped in irony.

The Conversation

Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show

Positive thinkers are ‘literally on the same wavelength’, say Japanese researchers

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Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read

It’s easy to dismiss holiday novels as pulpy, but relaxing with a book you enjoy has huge health benefits. Here’s how to read yourself happy this summer

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The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things

From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?

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Ali Khamenei: ruthless defender of Iran’s revolution with few good options left

The Iranian supreme leader is backed into a corner, a situation he has spent his life doing his best to avoid

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Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance

Natalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role while Phillip Breen’s production reflects the scope of the novel’s ambition, though the story never fully reaches its emotional depths

The Guardian - UK

Global apartheid: A secret history

Israel and the US share a form of colonial arrogance: Certain people have the right to move; others don't

Salon

James Norton reveals health condition caused ‘pandemonium’ at awards show

Actor was left ‘dripping with sweat’ while sitting opposite Nicole Kidman

The Independent UK

‘A gift of a role for a mother’: Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer on playing Tolstoy’s tortured Anna Karenina

From Anne Boleyn to Lady W to Game of Thrones, she has played tough women who kick against society’s constraints. What will the actor bring to the great Russian character who leaves her husband and son?

The Guardian - UK

Author Philippe Sands was told it is ‘unacceptable’ to read Russian writer Tolstoy amid Ukraine war

‘It is complex,’ said the award-winning writer

The Independent UK

Nothing is more stressful than Britain’s housing market

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Home ownership may be framed as the pinnacle of human achievement, but the process of getting there has been rated as more anxiety-inducing than childbirth. Helen Coffey investigates why purchasing property in this country is so uniquely traumatic

The Independent UK

Morning Mail: Israel launches new Gaza assault; NSW police ‘extraordinary’ search power; Biden’s cancer diagnosis

‘Extensive’ operation planned by Israeli forces in Gaza; Teams app took students biometric data; Labor eyes productivity reforms

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‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’

Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos

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50 Photos Of Legendary People You Probably Didn’t Know Were Ever Photographed (New Pics)

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56 Rare Photos Of Famous Historical Figures (New Pics)

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Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

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Should we stop platforming Russian culture?

United24 has launched a campaign to stop Ukrainian ally nations from enjoying Russian culture, from its classical literature to theatre and cinema.

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Can animals make art?

In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.”

Evening Standard

OPINION - As the Oscars return, it's time we faced the real truth about prizes

If you run with the pack, you need not bark but wag your tail you must. Russian proverb. For 23 years, I was literary editor, and later also film critic, of the London Evening Standard. A dreamy job — getting paid well to read books and watch movies and then…

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Why religion is fundamental to addressing climate change

“There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated scientist told me during a workshop on climate change and religion in 2024. Contrary to the tone of his comment, this scientist was not dismissing religion as being marginal to tackling climate change, but…

The Guardian - UK

It’s time to rethink boredom, procrastination and regret

That’s the way to fulfil your goals and have fun in life, writes Simon May

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‘We’re not doing the thing we’re built to do’: Agnes Callard, the philosopher living life according to Socrates

Why did the professor get divorced, remarry, but allow her former husband to remain in the house? In her brilliant new book, Open Socrates, she makes the case for an intellectually honest life

The Guardian - US

Constantly scrolling on your phone? Why we can’t stand feeling bored

In one study, nearly half of participants left alone for 15 minutes with no stimulation chose to have an electric shock

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