HOW MUCH do you know about George Sand? If you are an Anglophone reader, the answer is probably “not a lot”. You might recall ...

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With his Jesus-like looks and extraordinary vocals, the former Eurovision star leads an astonishing revival of Andrew Lloyd ...

The filmmaker became a father for the first time in 1981 Vince Bucci/Getty Throughout his career, George Lucas brought to life two of the most renowned franchises in cinematic history: Star Wars and ...

Springwood squanders a rich political moment and the talents of Robert Lindsay and Jemma Redgrave in a drama better suited to radio ...

In her biography of the novelist George Sand, Fiona Sampson urges us to see Sand chiefly as a writer, an inventor of stories and also of the self. By Rebecca Chao Rebecca Chao is a senior staff editor ...

In the spring of 1928, a young Englishman named Eric Blair moved into a rented room in a working-class neighbourhood in Paris. The walls of which, he would later describe as ‘thin as matchwood”.

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?

Editor’s Note: English novelist and critic, George Orwell served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, and in fighting against Franco came to detest tyranny, whether of Communist or Fascist, origin ...