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How Netflix revolutionised foreign-language TV
Subtitled media was once for pretentious film nerds obsessed with Amelie. Netflix has changed this.
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New York Times food review thinks London restaurants served porridge and boiled mutton
If it weren’t for the foodie revolution ten years ago, we’d still be eating tough sheep and wet oats.
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Mitski’s Be the Cowboy is a record of big, existential, open plain longing
The album features 14 dense, precise, tightly constructed songs – most refuse a traditional verse/chorus structure for shorter, stranger vignettes.
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Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight is like watching a Wes Anderson film through a telescope
Clues, maps and unlikely disguises: all narrated in majestic Ondaatjean style.
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Anna Burns’s Booker-longlisted Milkman: a work of timely universality
Milkman is both universal and a distinctly Irish novel, a dark satire with a twist of Beckett.
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Esi Edugyan’s Booker-longlisted Washington Black is a gripping tale of slavery, loyalty and freedom
Edugyan shows there is more to bondage than physical captivity.
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Alan Garner’s memoir is one of the best things he’s ever written
The prose is so clear that it feels less like writing and more like a surrendering to memory itself.
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