By 1969 student protests were raging across Japan, as anti-university, anti-war and anti-government movements mingled in strikes and classroom blockades. “Students were getting really violent,” Makoto Kubota recalls of Kyoto’s Doshisha University, leaving his studies in shambles. But when his quiet, magnetic fellow student Takashi Mizutani invited Kubota to the first gig by his band…
This Is Not a Murder Mystery 8pm, U&DramaA period crime drama set in West Sussex, 1936: a stately home is playing host to the hottest artists of the day, including Salvador Dalí, Man Ray and René Magritte. After a party fuelled by cocaine, opium and professional jealousy, a body is found, staged like Magritte’s The…
Lizzo simply figured it was about damn time to start feeling better. So, though part of her platinum-selling, Grammy-and-Emmy-winning Big Grrrl brand was being proud AF of how she looked, sounded and moved through the world exactly as she was, the artist born Melissa Jefferson, who’s turning 38 on April 27, knew she had to make…
Meet Ada, the anguished young narrator of 26-year-old Albertine Clarke’s radically strange and engrossing debut novel. Adrift in London, Ada occupies herself by swimming in her apartment’s basement pool and generally hiding from the world until she finds herself on the verge of a tumultuous mental collapse. If you’re allergic to the kind of novel…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A two‑year‑old boy was found dead Friday after his father’s car was swept off the road by…
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Shorouk Express “We have long said that not enough is being done to ensure transparency in NGO funding — and we meant it,” said Tomáš Zdechovský, lead EPP lawmaker in the budgetary control committee. The EPP said the working group will count with staff to check all the contracts awarded by the Commission to NGOs….
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Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A body believed to be one of the two British hikers who went missing in the Dolomites at the start of the year…
