🔗 Italy’s mythic ‘month off’ in August was hard won. It would be good for us all

🔗 Nudists, peaceniks and freeloading travellers: the people keeping the Esperanto dream alive

🔗 Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx: Contrasting proposals for approaching socialism

🔗 Mikhail Bakunin: A vital, overflowing life

Marking 150 years since the death of the great revolutionary, whose vision of anarchism remains more relevant than ever

🔗 Masarat - Classical Music Reviews

🔗 BBCNOW/Bloch/Eberle review – this was a riveting and beguiling concert

Soloist Veronika Eberle brought sweet, pure tone tone to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, with Jorg Widmann’s new cadenzas complementing the work perfectly. Music by George Benjamin and Strauss further revealed orchestra and conductor in their element

🔗 Under the Volcano: Before the Stillness

🔗 Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

🔗 The Universe is Born and Dies With You

In his book Opening the Hand of Thought, Kosho Uchiyama says something similar to this, but takes it even further. He says, “When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn’t born into a world that was already here before me. I do not live simply as one individual among millions of individuals, and I do not leave everything behind me to live on after me.”

🔗 ‘Arms and legs are very expressive, especially with bruises’: the absurdist photography of Yorgos Lanthimos

🔗 Rachel Roddy’s recipe for risotto in bianco

🔗 Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself

In other words, the stories being told about Muslims and immigrants today are the same stories that were being told about Jews a century ago.

🔗 Léo Malet: A fascination with illegalism

🔗 ‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier?

🔗 My stepdad, CS Lewis

🔗 Radical Reprint: Who’s afraid of the A Word?

🔗 Paul Ben-Haim: Chamber Works – review 🎵

🔗 Gramophone - How we made England, my England: ‘They actually built a sort-of London for me to burn down. What heaven!'

Tony Palmer shares his journey and challenges in creating the film “The Mystery of Henry Purcell,” highlighting its themes and connections to contemporary society while reflecting on the creative process and collaboration with John Osborne.

🔗 Classics of modern South Korean cinema – ranked! | Parasite | The Guardian

🔗 PLURIBUS: THE POWER OF DIVISION - by Slavoj Žižek

🔗 From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance

🔗 The never ending story

🔗 Barbican revamp to give ‘bewildering’ arts centre a new lease of life

🔗 ‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties

🔗 Cyrano de Bergerac review – Adrian Lester brings sublime soul to roistering romance