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Communicating science to a general audience can be challenging. Successfully conveying research on polarizing topics such as climate change can be even more difficult. But a new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Nan Li…

The history of literature is, in no small part, the history of love…

Express News Service The opening scene of any film is sacrosanct. There’s a particular joy in discerning that the filmmaker is trying to punctuate the film’s themes seconds after the first frame comes up. It happens in…

SJ Suryah in a still from ‘Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie’ | Photo Credit: Amazon Prime Video For reasons good and bad, Amazon Prime Video’s latest Tamil series Vadhandhi warrants a watch. Firstly, the way it builds its world is a huge…

Though the titular character of the film is its stand-out feature, the writing of the same is uni-dimensional, with the makers not being sure of where to go with such a beast of a character Though the titular character of the film is its…

The blissfully peaceful face of a sleeping Kuttiyamma (Pauly Wilson) is one of the first visuals that ushers us into the rather dark world of Appan. Clearly, a long unfulfilled wish is playing out in her dream. As she reveals a minute later…

‘Shantaram’ is definitely not the show to go for if you are looking for gritty reality, but spending time with hunky Hunnam and his colourful cast of characters does not seem such an imposition ‘Shantaram’ is definitely not the show to go…

Express News Service From the very first paragraph, Small Things Like These hooks you with its measured prose and poetic lilts. Claire Keegan skilfully wields crisp as well as long sentences, conversational cadences,…

Audrey Plaza plays a an art-school dropout who resorts to credit card fraud in Emily the Criminal.…

Lapvona, by Ottessa Moshfegh Penguin…