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The charming short I’m Doing My Best captures Willy Kosovich, an amateur artist from Berlin, as he sketches strangers for free on the streets of Sheffield in England. The UK director Rosie Baldwin ...

Orgasms are often thought of as ineffable – so what happens when someone attempts to put the experience into words? In Come, the filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes, who’s directed a series of short ...

In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear – From ‘London’ in Songs of Experience ...

As you read, do you scribble around the edges? Over the years, writers have sworn by the practice. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote: ‘In getting my books, I have been always solicitous of an ample margin … ...