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Taiwan Travelogue, a book written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, became the first book written in Mandarin Chinese to achieve success. International Booker Prize. Yang and King were announced as the winners of the £50,000 prize –…

WSally Wainwright’s book Riot Women appeared last fall, to great acclaim beset by a few questions about authenticity. “There’s an interesting TV series that should be made about a menopausal music group – Riot Women isn’t it,” wrote Tiff Bakker…

Here is an underdog boxing movie from the Democratic Republic of the Congo which has a powerful, heartbreaking true story behind it – and features the attention of young South African actress Ama Qamata. He plays a young victim of…

Mein a multi-threaded release schedule, there is no way to save backups of locked out children and parents. The Mandalorian and Grogu. The film production departments of the major studios have already given the likes of blockbusting Hoppers, Goat and…

Wwith love and passion from the heart, and an abundance of good performances from young actors shot in close-up for a long time, Clio Barnard he has created an interesting and inspiring picture of society. It’s a film whose mixture…

Billy Joel has criticized an upcoming record called Billy & Me, which was made in front of his first manager, as “legally and technically wrong”. Billy & Me, which was announced on Tuesday, is set up a talk Joel’s first…

THe opens the episode of I Want You to Be Happy with the perfect way to describe a man and woman who meet in a bar, try to discuss music and flirt in the dark. He confirms that he is…

MeIt’s a long-standing romcom trope in which the couples we’re meant to root for often hide lies that threaten the chances of any happy relationship blossoming. From classics like The Shop Around the Corner for today’s blockbusters like How to…

For years, the writer Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character was a fixture of the multiplex, and the films offered reluctantly-leading-man-of-the-acting opportunity to Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine. Most of them were beaten. (Sorry, Chris!) In this…

Who benefits from fishing agreements between the Mauritanian government and foreign vessels? Every day, foreign ships illegally enter Mauritania’s waters. Its water is one of the richest in the world. But who is benefiting from the fishing agreements between the…