Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any other podcast in terms of total time spent. Sure, that’s because most episodes ...

In around 1954, Radio Ceylon, in its Sinhala broadcast, serialised Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I was a nine-year-old at the time. The reading of a translation of Dostoyevsky’s classic, partly ...

On the one hand he was a proponent of ethical living, but on the other hand he was an ardent admirer of women. So who really was Russia's most prolific (in every sense of the word) writer? Tolstoy was ...

Russia’s “foreign agent” law, established in 2012 to identify individuals and organizations that received international funding, has become a tool to criminally prosecute and ban from public life ...

If you’re looking to get started recording music but you haven’t got the funds of major label proportions, adding one of the best budget audio interfaces to your arsenal can get you some surprisingly ...

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Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With Spotify Lossless, it's a case of better late than never. Because while the world's biggest ...

Thanks to Hollywood, whenever I think of a Dictaphone, my imagination immediately jumps to a mid-20th-century office, Don ...

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