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Sunday, June 7, 2026
Delightful French films, part 1: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
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Agathe (Camille Rutherford) failing to make progress on her novel in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life . Image source: Film Obsessive The French...
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Ella Fitzgerald: Like Someone in Love
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Cover of Ella Fitzgerald's Like Someone in Love , Verve Records, 1957. Photo credit: Phil Stern. Image source: Goatless Technology can...
Sunday, May 24, 2026
The 100 best novels of all time
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Cover of the first edition of Middlemarch, Book 1 — Miss Brooke (1872), by George Eliot. Middlemarch is ranked first on the 2026 Guardian...
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Nymphs, shepherdesses, muses and lovers: Virginie Thomas
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Virginie Thomas. Image credit: Studio Ledroit-Perrin. Image source: Les Heures Musicales de l’Abbaye de Lessay Although my shelves (and co...
Sunday, April 19, 2026
In memoriam: Asha Bhosle
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Asha Bhosle. Image source: MumbaiMirror The great playback singer Asha Bhosle (née Mangeshkar) died last Sunday at age 92. Born into a mus...
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