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As schools start closing after the end of the first term of the 2025 academic year, Philip Matogo writes that report cards ...
Pip William's novel 'The Dictionary of Lost Words' at the Playhouse, QPAC, is a worthy and thought-provoking play adaptation, ...
Fifty years after glamrock band Slade surprised everyone with the grittiness of their big-screen fable about the music industry, we spoke to singer Noddy Holder, actor Tom Conti and director Richard ...
T he London-born small-screen-to-big-stage techapalooza Stranger Things: The First Shadow couldn’t have landed at a more appropriate Broadway theater. On the third floor of the ...
Best known for creating the Cockney huntsman Jorrocks ... It comes to us courtesy of Luigi Pirandello: acclaimed Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and writer — and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in ...
Poet Daud Haider, known for his timeless poem Janmo-i Amar Ajanmo Pap (My Birth, My Eternal Sin), died while undergoing treatment at a Berlin hospital early yesterday (Bangladesh time). He was 73 ...
The Cockney Museum in Stoneleigh opened its doors in 2020 and has had visitors from all over the world, including America and Australia. It contains the "Cockney crown jewels", a large collection ...
Sales agency Luxbox has boarded Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet,” which has been selected to world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival. The drama, shot in Medellin ...
A Nigerian creative writer and poet, Ibrahim Nureni, has emerged as the first Nigerian and African to be honoured at the prestigious Maya International Haiku Contest. Nureni earned second place in ...
Daud Haider, the first exiled poet, writer, and columnist of independent Bangladesh, has passed away at the age of 73. He breathed his last on Saturday at a senior care center in Berlin, the capital ...
It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...