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World · 2026-08-16
‘Silence has become both more dangerous and more complicit’: An interview with Lebanese-British artist, Amale Khlat
“In an age when images of war circulate constantly without producing understanding or action, I am interested in the screen that makes you stop.”
Technology · 2026-08-13
Who Saves an Old Video Game When the Shop Disappears?
Games can vanish from sale long before their cultural value fades, leaving archivists to preserve machines, code, magazines and the human story around them.
Culture · 2026-08-10
Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch
Some critics have bemoaned the flattening of a complex character. But Nolan’s film echoes a literary tradition of reimagining Circe as a survivor, a truth-teller and a figure of female empowerment.