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The life of an asylum seeker in Paris, in close-up

Two photographers, two very different journeys. As Leica celebrates a century of image-making, the 2025 Oskar Barnack Awards honour Alejandro Cegarra’s searing study of migration and Serghei Duve’s intimate meditation on memory and identity. Peter Dench finds out more

L in-Manuel Miranda likes to tell the story of his first piano recital at age six. He played one song and received a round of applause. So he played another one. More applause followed. Spurred by thi

The arts sector has long been unthinkingly in thrall to the supposedly “progressive” left but a coherent, coordinated, conservative strategy could, and should, shift the consensus

How wealthy Chinese nationals, many with links to the ruling Communist Party, are gaining U.S. residency via projects in rural Arkansas through America’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program

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