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A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

How the neoliberal urban development schemes of the Mubarak regime have gained new life under the Muslim Brotherhood.

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?

Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Andrey Platonov’s Happy Moscow