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Our Dune streaming guide shows you where to watch Dune online, from the 1984 David Lynch classic to the 2020s Denis Villeneuve blockbusters.

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In The Beast Must Die, a bereaved mother infiltrates the life of the man she suspects killed her son.

Violence, madness and a whirlwind wedding

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…

A sense of history can easily be the casualty in times when tweets running out of characters make way for newspaper op-eds, and books emerge from op-eds running out of space. Any exercise in sizing up our times and its key figures has to tame a few disadvantages if it…

There is an interesting conversation at the beginning of 1988 classic English, August, the debut novel by 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee. The novel begins with a chat in a car between young IAS probationer Agastya Sen and his Yale-alumnus friend Dhrubo.

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In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line:

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Author-journalist Elizabeth Becker had once remarked on the few women who had covered the Vietnam War: “Female reporters covered that war, rewriting the rules so that the phrase ‘woman war correspondent’ would never again be an oxymoron.”