In the rain-slicked streets of Glasgow, Scarlett Johansson's unnamed entity drifts through a Scotland that feels like an alien's first sketch of Earth. The…
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Disco Elysium drops you into the bloodstained shoes of a hungover detective in Revachol, hands you a notebook instead of a sword, and asks you to navigate a…
Zofia Rydet never planned to become a chronicler of vanishing worlds. Trained as an ethnographer in post-war Poland, she picked up a camera in the late 1970s…
Magda Szabó's The Door has earned a quiet but devoted readership in Australia, where readers of translated fiction often trade copies through book clubs in…
Yugoslav dark wave emerged from a country that no longer exists, yet its atmosphere remains remarkably immediate. Across the Socialist Federal Republic of…
The hero’s journey remains the most recognisable narrative engine in contemporary blockbuster cinema. A reluctant protagonist leaves an ordinary world,…
The Soulsborne games tell stories through damaged worlds, partial memories and spaces that seem to remember what their inhabitants have forgotten. Their plots…
Wisława Szymborska’s poems often begin in places that seem too familiar to deserve serious attention: a kitchen, a museum, a train carriage, a newspaper…
Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher remains difficult to absorb because its cruelty is quiet, organised and intimate. Released in 2001 and adapted from Elfriede…
Choose-your-own-adventure fiction should have disappeared several times. Its paper branches belonged to the age of school libraries, floppy disks and colourful…