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The Battleground / 20 Feb 2023
Retro World
The Battleground’s Spring Books List
Protests and war belong together. Not because they reflect each other but because conflict stirs the pot. Not just about itself but everything else.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 14 Dec 2022
The Sexism of Everyday Life
Jeanne Dielman, Directed by Chantal Akerman
When Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade poll about the greatest films of all time was published two weeks ago, people were shocked to see Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at the top.(...)
Krystle Thorpe / 04 Aug 2022
No Apologies to Chris Rock
What Will Smith Should Have Said
Everyone has something to say about the violence at the 2022 Oscars, whose host called “the greatest night in the history of television”.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 25 Jul 2022
Odesa Mama
Utopia by the Sea
The Russians have struck Odesa again, this time mere hours after reaching a deal with the Ukrainians. Though spared the worst of the war, an attack on Odesa is an attack on the best of Ukrainian and Russophone culture alike.(...)