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The blast zone
Culture
The Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, a deliberate and painstaking artist, went to great lengths to include in his late work Stalker, almost as its centrepiece, an elaborately composed tracking shot – a camera movement that captured many …
On fragments and dust
Society
During the year or so I spent recently as a correspondent in Iraq and the wider Middle East, I found myself often in the vicinity of holy places - temples from the Hellenistic era, early churches, Umayyad mosques and desert sanctuaries, mosaic-floored …
Into the red
Society
Haydn in the outback
Travels in the northern realm
Society
The idea of the north
The collector
Society
Karel Kupka in north Australia
