Intizar Husain - Basti

One of the finest works written in Urdu and nominated for a Man Booker International prize

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Detroit: Music City

Detroit is a city in spiralling decline. Can music and the arts help to revive it?

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Romanian Cinema

The new generation of Romanian film makers.

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International Playwriting Competiton - Meet the winners

We hear from the winners of the 2012 International Playwriting Competition.

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Ibrahim Maalouf

Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf brings Arabic scales to 1950s style jazz.

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Indian film director Anurag Kashyap

Indian film director Anurag Kashyap and the Perunika Trio.

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Haneke produces Mozart Opera

Award winning producer of Amour, Michael Haneke directs Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte in Madrid.

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YouTube Charts

What does the incorporation of YouTube plays to calculate chart positions mean for music?

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Comedy at the ballot box

Henning Wehn examines the relationship between stand-up comedy and politics.

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Mexican Car Poolers

The photographer Alejandro Cartagena spent over a year photographing Mexican car poolers

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Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

The two American songwriters talk to us about their current release Child Ballads.

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FESPACO: The 23rd African film festival comes to a close

The 23rd FESPACO pan-African film festival, held in Burkina Faso, has just ended.

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Latest novel from Malaysian author Tash Aw

Malaysian author Tash Aw's latest novel, Five Star Billionaire.

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The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft

Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft - minus the hotpants

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Amish Tripathi

How Amish Tripathi's trilogy about Lord Shiva led to the largest book advance in India.

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Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

A review of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - clever satire or simple bad taste?

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Music from Iceland

Fiona Talkington visits the Dark Music Days Festival in Iceland.

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Papal Arts Legacy

We discover how much Benedict XVI was keen to support the contemporary arts.

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African Rock

We examine the trend for western rock producers to work with prominent African musicians.

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The Man Asian Literary Prize

Maya Jaggi, chair of the judges, reveals the name of the winner of the Man Asian Prize.

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Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway

The best selling author discusses her latest novel The Last Runaway.

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The Infatuations by Javier Marias

Javier Marias on his latest novel The Infatuations.

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Bolshoi Scandal

Bolshoi Scandals - we hear the latest.

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Steve Earle Special

The American singer-songwriter talks to Mark Coles about his new album The Low Highway.

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Philip Roth Unmasked

Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Philip Roth is the subject of a new TV documentary

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The death of Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian novelist and poet has died.

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BBC World Service's What If Competition winners

We announce the winners of the BBC World Service's What If competition.

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Austerity Opera: Nostra Culpa

How a Twitter feud became an opera.

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A Tribute to Chinua Achebe

The Strand celebrates one of the world's great writers - the late Chinua Achebe.

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Mohsin Hamid

Samira Ahmed talks to Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.

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