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The maverick movie director Emir Kusturica backs Russian expansionism in the Balkans
Debt and damnation: Islam in Dante
Edward Said accused the poet of Orientalist prejudice — but he owed much to Muslim tradition
The road to redemption
Two zeitgeisty novels about belonging
Through the plashy fen
Stella Tillyard's novel The Great Level is a strange and elusive beast
A la France profonde
Snails, wine and history in northern Burgundy