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7 Oscars 2021 lessons: Minari is the real winner, women...
There can be no doubt this has been the strangest awards season in the history of...
Britney Spears film triggers Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton...
Jessica Simpson can’t watch it. Jennifer Love Hewitt said it “hurt my heart”, and...
Doctor Pascal, by Émile Zola, translated by Julie Rose
It was a disappointment when, back in 2016 when I read the last of Zola’s great...
Netflix K-drama Love Alarm returns for season two, ramping...
Alarm bells – well, apps – are ringing in near-future Seoul, with love in the air...
Gu Long’s martial arts stories on the big screen: how Chor...
Film director Chor Yuen adapted 17 works by the New Wave martial arts novelist Gu...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 3 — A Q&A with Commissioning...
This is the third in a series BLARB will be running of interviews with some of the...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 4: A Double Q&A...
This is the fourth in a series of interviews BLARB has been running to introduce...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 5 — A Q&A with Academic...
This is the fifth in our BLARB series made up of interviews with some of the people...
DMX, rap’s dark, tortured star, dies at 50
DMX, the hardcore hip-hop star whose ominous, snarling raps chronicled the violence...
K-drama review – in Netflix’s Sisyphus: The Myth, disappointing...
This article contains spoilers.1.5/5 starsTime-travel stories are a double-edged...
Incantations, by Subhash Jaireth
Incantations is such a perfect accompaniment to a trip to the National Portrait...
Mortal Kombat movie review: gleefully violent video game...
3.5/5 starsFans of the long-running Mortal Kombat video game franchise finally have...
On the wonders of Bach, transcribing Liszt and his return...
Hong Kong-born classical pianist Chiyan Wong might have just moved to Berlin in...
A Million Aunties, by Alecia McKenzie
So Chris start telling him bout all the museum-dem, while I listening with one ear. ...
The Performance, by Claire Thomas
Until today, I had never heard of theatre-fiction. It’s a genre of fiction that...