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Review of The Art of Opposition by Courtia Newland – a poignant essay on culture and creativity. Essay

IIn 1988, the late Ghanaian writer and filmmaker Kwesi Owusu edited Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black Arts and Culture, a collection of writings and images by black artists in Britain, including Ben Okri on Shakespeare, Shobhana Jayasinghe on Indian dance theatre, Jacob Ross on decolonizing language, an interview with Ntozek Shange, and

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Communion by JD Vance review – A strange, poignant book about faith and the modern world | Religion

AThe heart of this strange, perhaps rather poignant book is the biblical question: “What must I do to be saved?” Not in the crude sense of securing a place in heaven, but as an urgent challenge to the entire stock of destructive assumptions and habits espoused by the majority culture. Vance’s famous first book, Hillbilly

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