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Oscar contender Leviathan is a frank portrayal of corrupt Russia. In a rare interview, its director talks to Shaun Walker about his country’s ‘eternal curse’ and why voting there would be a ‘completely pointless step’
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Originally published in the Guardian on 5 November 1960: Michael Frayn on DH Lawrence’s novel and the possibility of motoring - which requires skill, gives pleasure but leads to disaster if misapplied - becoming the new taboo
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The Chinese-born Australian artist tells <b>Monica Tan</b> about the day he was detained and later deported from Beijing for daring to make art about China today
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Denmark’s relaxed censorship has reduced crime and porn consumption at home, but the tourists don’t know where to look first, writes Roy Perrott
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Associated Press team granted rare permission to spend a week travelling the country from Pyongyang to Mount Paektu – as long as they stayed with a minder, didn’t wander off course and didn’t speak to anyone unauthorised
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As Moscow tightens its grip on the country’s independent media, a group of self-exiled reporters are hoping to evade the censors. Nadia Beard reports for The Calvert Journal
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Poverty and class: the latest themes to enter the US banned-books debate