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The Government Inspector review – Tom Rosenthal stirs up Gogol’s political satire

The standup brings his easy stage command to the role of a penniless nincompoop who tricks his way into authority in Gregory Doran’s production

The Guardian - UK

Identity war: Far from frontlines, Ukraine resists Russia’s cultural legacy

Many Ukrainians back official ‘decolonisation’ efforts but others say it is misguided and defined by hostility.

Al Jazeera

Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says Europol

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On Ukraine’s musical frontline: how pop and classical stars have taken up arms

From nights at the opera to the nation’s best-loved bands, music is playing a vital role in resistance to the Russian invasion – many musicians have actually gone to the frontline

The Guardian - UK

Soldiers, sirens and a ‘sign of hope’ as Ukrainian opera premieres in Lviv

The Terrible Revenge takes place after rehearsal in bomb shelter and with uniformed soldiers in stalls

The Guardian - UK

At the 2023 Adelaide Festival, the best works shimmer with a brutal honesty on incarceration, exile – and Nikolai Gogol

Few Adelaideans remember a time before the Adelaide Festival. Formed in 1960 as a civic enterprise and financed against loss by prominent Adelaide businessmen, the festival today remains arguably the most robust international arts festival in our region.

The Conversation

Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

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From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology

Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.

Foreign Policy

Five of the best books about Russia and Ukraine

As Russia wages war, the historian Orlando Figes offers a guide to the literature that illuminates the tensions and the myths of the region

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