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Bored of the Rings
Is it time for the Tolkien industry to give it a rest?
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
It’s not Rooney, it’s you
When identity is the primary means of engagement with art, criticism is reduced to mud-slinging
A catastrophic global human rights crisis
The abolition of the sex trade can’t come soon enough
Letter from Washington: The America they knew
This week’s US casualties in Kabul lived through a tragically narrow slice of American history
Prostitution is a prison
Physical and sexual violence is endemic wherever prostitution occurs
Letter from Washington: Biden’s Covid bind
How does the President really think the pandemic will end?
All double dutch
Andrew Cusack says the influence of the Netherlands’ seaborne empire can still be felt around the world, from Manhattan and South Africa to modern Sri Lanka
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Letter from Washington: Afghan blues
The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache
Oki Doki Gen Z
Meet the self-made millionaires who support Bernie Sanders and stream ten hours a day
Australia’s Covid crisis
Australia is still standing at the gates of hell, while the rest of the world has already been through it