Photo by Bianca Berg
At a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump invoked a chilling convergence of law, order, and violence—a cornerstone of what can...
by Monika Zgustova
Still from Orson Welles’ The Trial (1962).
In the late 1980s, still during the communist era, while visiting Prague, a friend gave me...
Rajesh Komath
In Bramayugam, directed by Rahul Sadasivan and co-written with TD Ramakrishnan, Mammootty challenges Malayalam filmmakers to push boundaries. He portrays Koduman Potti, the...
By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Prologue
The movie Oppenheimer (Universal 2023) startled and pleased me immensely. It was a great cinematic achievement. The blinding white light and almighty...
Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism,...
BY Steven W. Thomas
Last year, I wrote an article—“Ethiopian Women Making Movies”—about the central role of women in a remarkably diverse Ethiopian cinema. At...
The Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR) is organizing a Special Lecture programme in association with Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre...
Desert travel writing tends to evoke feelings of excitement, enthusiasm and surprises. In an article in The Times Literary Supplement, Caroline Eden wrote that...
You would have gone to the forest 100 times, but could spot a tiger only once. But, be rest assured, the tiger would have...
by Susie Day
Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book,...
