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French 'national treasures' stolen from Limoges museum
The artefacts worth €9.5 million were taken overnight at the start of the month
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Blind tattoo artist in Russia impresses customers
38-year-old Igor translates words into Braille before working his magic
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Five historical sites in Karachi you should know about
Revisiting forgotten places that adorn the city streets
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Pakistani geeks are more alive than ever
With Popclash right around the corner, we look at what has made anime so popular in Pakistan
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Writer and journalist Ruth Weiss dies at age 101
The Nobel peace prize nominee, 'who 'waged war with her typewriter', wrote against oppression and injustice
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Nine affordable and crafty ways you can revamp your bedroom this weekend
Pinterest’s most basic ideas that will elevate your room and stretch your creative muscles
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Albert Camus' book 'The Stranger' takes stage at Venice film festival
Director François Ozon thinks the French classic still resonates with present day
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Argentina officials recover missing painting after 80 years
Originally stolen by Nazis, it was recovered from house of woman whose father worked as Adolf Hitler's officer
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Smiling figurine rumored to be 'portrait' of a Viking
Denmark's National Museum calls it the first of its kind that challenges popular notions of a Viking
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Street artists from Sarajevo paint over bullet holes from Bosnian war
Graffiti allows youth to reshape a city steeped in history
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Booker Prize releases most diverse longlist nominees in a decade
Line-up features Kiran Desai, Tash Aw, and David Szalay
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Do not fall for the lies spouted by ‘We Were Liars’
In both show and book format, steel yourself for an unreliable narrator as insufferable as an adolescent’s essay
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Everdeen, everlasting: Why the odds will ever be in favour of 'The Hunger Games'
Be it with Katniss or Haymitch, we keep returning to the hanging tree
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Read these while the simulation loads
4 books to indulge in as you watch 'Black Mirror' S7
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A 100 years on, Mrs Dalloway continues to walk
In love with Richard, Sally, Leonard and time itself
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Inside the machinery of thought control
4 dystopias that feel alarmingly real
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To read after ‘Notes to John’
4 books that recount mental breakdowns in artful ways
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4 books in which love meets the machine
These novels show what happens when robots conquer the heart
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Palestine's gift to literature: Five books that dare to remember and retell against rampant erasure
‘The Book of Disappearance’, Ibtisam Azem’s International Book Prize Longlist contender, shines a literary light
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Headline: ‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’ Producer Adapting Alexander McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie Series for TV
Synchronicity Films has optioned the rights to book series, also known as The Sunday Philosophy Club.
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Waheeda Bano's food for thought
On becoming the first woman to curate Karachi Biennale
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BookTok and the everlasting case of tropes in contemporary fiction
Even our favourite novels can't escape this lucrative wave
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Why dystopian books captivated us and when they fell short
Was this brief but strong wave of literature always as good as we remember it to be?
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When bestsellers fail to deliver: Don’t fall for the promises of book tok reviews
I should know better than to believe blurbs and online recommendations, but I fall for them every time
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3 spooky novels to double the goosebumps this fall
Induce the best kind of chills for the full spine-tingling Halloween experience
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Outdated yet still magical: 'Famous Five' is the gift that keeps on giving
Mired in wartime Britain, Enid Blyton's action-packed series captures escapism in a bottle
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How Wattpad shaped an entire generation of fanfiction obsessed teens
If you ever had the app, odds are you were reading some barely coherent narrative about One Direction or Harry Potter
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When literature ends up being butchered on screen: A safe space for hardcore readers
For every book that transitions beautifully to television, there are a thousand that go horribly wrong
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Pakistani artist Waqas Khan to present major exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art
‘Lapsus Imaginis’ will be on view from June 13, 2024 through March 17, 2025
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Not a number: Palestinian writers we lost to Israeli brutality in 2023
Amid unrelenting violence, Palestine grieves voices of resistance and resilience extinguished under apartheid
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Qasimia Library: The story of a book collector
Book enthusiast Dr Obaid travels the globe to add to his family's prized collection
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A safe space for Pakistani artists tackling taboo topics
The Pakistan Art Forum supports emerging artists dealing with feminist themes
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Shakespeare-fan King Charles celebrates 400 years since the first Folio
The monarch's interest in the playwright dates back to boarding school when he played Macbeth in 1965
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Karachi Biennale artists enthrall audiences at London's Land Body Ecologies Fest
The festival brought together teams from India, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, the UK, and the Arctic
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K-pop megastars BTS release memoir 'Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record'
The memoir's release date is the same day the megastars' fans, known as ARMY, first came into being ten years ago
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Harry Potter park in Tokyo hopes to enchant Asian fans
Adult tickets, which cost 6,300 yen ($45), are sold out into August
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Original or obsolete: Japanese artist Takashi Murakami loves and fears AI
His paintings have sold for millions of dollars, and led to fashion collaborations with Louis Vuitton and Kanye West
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directs videos for Gucci featuring Alia Bhatt, Julia Roberts, Idris Elba
The campaign consists of 35 videos where global artists speak up about their ideas for gender equality
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Bushra Ansari takes centre stage in 'Malika-E-Tabassum'
Veteran actor will wow the audience at the Arts Council in Karachi from June 25
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Back on stage again: Ahad Raza Mir announces return in yet another production of ‘Hamlet’
The play was delayed for two years due to Covid-19
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A new 'Lord of the Rings' video game is in works at Amazon
The game will be set in Middle-earth, featuring stories from 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' literary trilogy
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Rare outing for six Shakespeare’s first copies in London
The editions were compiled by Shakespeare's friends and published seven years after his death
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Most personal work yet: Malala Yousafzai announces new book
The Nobel Prize laureate's first book, 'I Am Malala' was published in 2013, a year after she was shot by the Taliban
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'Phantom of the Opera' ends record run with final Broadway bow
Production estimates that it has employed 6,500 people, including 450 actors, over the years
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Pakistani artists pay tribute to SRK with portrait at Gadani Beach
Rashidi artists group from Balochistan shared their artwork on Instagram
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Boney Kapoor confirms launch of Sridevi’s biography 'Sridevi: The Life of a Legend'
The book is authored by Dhiraj Kumar
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Van Gogh family role hailed in museum's 50th birthday show
The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary
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Pakistani-American artist installs 'Lady Justice' sculpture outside US court
'Havah' is a sculpture made by Pakistani-born American artist Shahzia Sikandar
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Ode to master Beckett: Renowned scholar Ahmed Javaid deconstructs playwright's absurdist themes
Off The School played host to a truly enlightening lecture and a reading session led by Ahmad Javaid
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'Spare': Harry tell-all sells 1.4 million copies on first day, beats Obama's book
The first opinion poll since the memoir’s publication showed Harry’s popularity continues to nosedive in the UK