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This 1948 feature film by Wanda Jakubowska, a Polish survivor of the death camp, is both forthright and nightmarish, and invented the cinematic language with which to make the Holocaust thinkable In 1948, Polish socialist film-maker Wanda Jakubowska released this gripping and pioneering film about the Auschwitz death camp in which she herself had recently

Triplets reckon with their puzzling dissimilarity in an enjoyable saga of family dysfunction Nature versus nurture, animal cognition, order and chance, the climate crisis, the structure of the brain and the nature of consciousness Global in scope, Amanda Svenssons hefty novel boasts even heftier themes. To address the question of whether there is an

Giorgio Locatelli likes a bit of everything in each bite, while Yotam Ottolenghi likes to compartmentalise his plate. How do you approach your dinner? Eating in public can be exposing. It is one of the few intense physical pleasures that we can enjoy with just about anyone. But when you observe someone else attack a

Michael Jackson now owns the rights to Eminem's back catalogue, after his partnership company Sony/ATV purchased the publishing company Famous Music for $370 million. Bjork, Shakira and Beck are also among the many artists whose publishing rights were sold by Viacom, of which Famous Music is a subsidiary, at auction yesterday afternoon.

There was, from the start, something monumental, something reminiscent of Mount Rushmore, about Heston with his 6ft 3in height and chiselled features. He could be angry, threatening and cruel, but he couldn't be commonplace, diffident or funny. In a 1960 article in Cahiers du cinma called "In Defence of Violence", French critic Michel Mourlet made