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Out of the past: in this recently unearthed interview, the master filmmaker shares his thoughts on working with actors, adapting fiction, the debatable necessity of originality, and much more

Reading Claude Anet’s provocative 1920 novel “Ariane: A Russian Girl,” the reader may yearn for a little less conversation.

‘The world might condemn me, but what’s the world? A gathering of fools and a pile of prejudices.’ Thus, with all the certainty and absolutism of youth, does the 17-year-old Ariane reflect on the prospect of selling herself. There would be an element of épater les bourgeois in this sentiment in almost any age, but

Shouldn’t a protest movement led by unions be benefiting the left?

A contemporary article in the POUM's journal La Révolution Espagnole on the CNT's collectivised taxis during the Spanish Revolution.

After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas.

The publication by Gallimard of the earliest manuscript of what would become ‘In Search of Lost Time’ lays bare the autobiographical origins of Proust’s key themes, including his feelings about his Jewishness

The literary friendship of James Joyce and his student and instructor in Jewish customs, the Italian businessman Ettore Schmitz, better known as the novelist Italo Svevo, gave birth to one of literature’s greatest characters. It also unites the giant of literary modernism with the founder of psychoanalysis.

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It doesn’t take much to see the roots of his ideology. The irony is that this time, its proponent is Jewish.