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Bob Dylan is one of the finest ever writers of protest songs, about the oppression of poor people, young people, black people in the militarist, ...

Ursula K. Le Guin was a celebrated and prolific American author, spanning many literary genres for six decades, first winning acclaim in fantasy fiction, most ...

Mary Gaitskill’s novel, Veronica, is a meditation on truth and beauty told by its self-proclaimed peripheral protagonist, Alison. The novel loosely tracks her life as ...

This a terrific film about a man who is not there. It won this year’s Palme d’Or for its tragi-comic depiction of a group of ...

Some things are defined by the absence or silence around them. In The Histories by US artist Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy, we ...

This film about the Arab Revolt in Palestine in 1936 is unlikely to gain a mass audience, but it very much deserves to be seen. ...

I have recently finished reading the second volume of Solvej Balle’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume(2025). Five volumes have been written with only the ...

So what does it all mean – Grayson Perry’s Delusions of Grandeur at the Wallace Collection in London? On one hand, it proclaims that we ...

Erling Kagge is a Norwegian explorer, publisher and author, famous as the first explorer to conquer the three poles on foot: the North and South ...

(This follows on from the post on the book Crow) Ted Hughes was maybe the greatest English poet of his generation. But when he described ...

The 1960s and 70s were a time of political and social upheaval in Britain. Under the governments of Harold Wilson, it seemed that power was ...

“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction…” “Sooner murder an infant in its cradle/ Than nurse unacted desires…” What are we ...

When I was invited to join the editorial team of “Just Beauty”, I had only recently seen the film “Conclave”, based on the Robert Harris ...

I have just started to reread Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (Bach, 1970). Like many of my generation I read it when it was first published and ...

Can we get our young men to kneel and look through the Smokehole? ‘We thought we had Pentecost but find ourselves in Babel.’ Dr. Martin ...

Note: This review contains spoilers. if you haven’t watched ‘Adolescence’, I strongly recommend you do. Very few cultural offerings hit you with a hammer blow ...

Given the quotations from Keats in “Lamia”, and the featuring of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” on this Just Beauty blog platform, it seems appropriate ...