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Morning Mail: Djokovic triumphs, hundreds of school abuse claims revealed, $300m boost to arts

Almost 400 civil claims filed in the past 12 years in Victoria for historical child sexual abuse

The Guardian - AU

Inside Happy Valley star James Norton's love life - dating co-star to secret engagement

Actor James Norton has played Happy Valley villain Tommy Lee Royce since 2014 and is currently starring in the third series

Daily Mirror

Movie review: Bill Nighy triumphs in poignant ‘Living’

A greatly moving hybrid film, the British entry “Living” is based on the 1952 film “Ikiru” by the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, itself loosely based on Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” The Kurosawa film features a great Takashi Shimura (“Seven Samurai”) in the lead. “Living,” which…

Boston Herald

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It's almost time to bid 2022 farewell and greet 2023 with fresh zeal, passion, and positivity.

The Times of India

Review: If you doubted the greatness of Bill Nighy, a moving new drama offers 'Living' proof

Not long into "Living," Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn't come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his calmly appraising gaze or his thin, flat line of a mouth…

Los Angeles Times

Pronouncing Foreigners' Names

Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I…

Reason

Review: Frederick Wiseman's gorgeous 'A Couple' brings the words of Sophia Tolstoy to life

The title of "A Couple," Frederick Wiseman's new movie, is both intriguing and a little misleading. Intriguing because it doesn't make reference to a place, establishment or social issue, as you might expect by now from this 92-year-old master of the institution-centric documentary. And misleading because in the course of…

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Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

Al Jazeera

Homophobia as a wartime marketing tool: Some Russians fear the West will make them gay

The Russian Book Union recently sent a letter to the Russian Duma, one of the chambers of the country’s parliament, expressing concern that a proposed bill expanding the scope of forbidden LGBTQ+ “propaganda” could lead to the banning of works of classic literature, including books by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky,…

The Conversation

Shannon Burns' Childhood is a story of disconnection, neglect, violence and poverty

Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name:

The Conversation

‘Hope matters’: Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict

Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever

The Guardian - UK

Gandhi Jayanti 2022: History, Significance, facts, celebration and all you need to know

Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on 2nd October every year to mark the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was famously known as Mahatma Gandhi. This day is celebrated all over the country, even outside the country by the followers of Mahatma Gandhi. He is honoured for his invaluable contributions…

The Times of India

First sitcom, first chef, first castaway, first dance and first Woman’s Hour: 100 years of the BBC, part three

Desert Islands Discs launched, a raffish bachelor made sitcom history, hoofers had a riot and a man called Alan hosted Woman’s Hour – which revealed how to keep your husband’s suits crease-free

The Guardian - UK

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Mexico officials abused 47% of migrants awaiting US asylum, rights group says

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Miami school district says it denied Pulitzer play due to racy scenes. Others say censorship

MIAMI — Days after the Miami-Dade County School District denied students from attending Miami New Drama’s production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Anna in the Tropics,” school officials pointed to lines and imagery they considered to be “sexually explicit” or inappropriate for school-aged children.

The Guardian - UK

I’m going through hell for the sake of art. Tolstoy or Henry James could learn a thing or two

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

Bangkok Post

How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history

On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as…

The Independent UK

New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition

The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Gray’s Queens coming-of-age drama “Armageddon Time” and Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about artist Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family

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77th anniversary of A-bombing commemorated in Hiroshima / Mayor slams Russia in peace declaration

HIROSHIMA -- Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on the world to "immediately render all nuclear buttons meaningless" in his peace declaration at a ceremony on the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

Tess Gerritsen: ‘There’s always comfort in Sherlock Holmes’

The US novelist on being immersed in The Hobbit, an inspirational Woman Warrior, and sobbing on the beach reading the Aeneid

WEKU

How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's loyalists threaten to grab back Alaska from US for Russia

Russia's most senior parliamentarian Vyacheslav Volodin warned that the Kremlin could take back Alaska from the United States if the West confiscates its billions

The Guardian - UK

In Ukraine, this summer means blood and sirens – but fishing and the theatre go on

While locals donate blood for the injured and relatives of the missing provide DNA, glimmers of our normal life cling on, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

The Hindu

As the virus of totalitarianism begins to infect India, the immune system of the Republic needs to be reinvigorated

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Monkeypox is not our next pandemic, but it has lessons for us

Monkeypox is a viral disease, distantly related to its far more deadly cousin, smallpox. So far this year, it has been discovered in dozens of countries that are generally not familiar with monkeypox, with about 113 cases in the U.S., 15 of them in Illinois.

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