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A letter to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday - what would he make of the 21st century?
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| 36 notesWe have too many languages and cultures, indeed, the idea of an unique [European] newspaper is for now just a utopia. The web, meanwhile, makes us bump into one another; we may not read Russian but we come across Russian websites and we are made aware of others. Umberto Eco: ‘It’s culture, not war, that cements European identity’
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It took the graphic novelist Craig Thompson seven years to complete Habibi, his epic exploration of child slavery and sexual awakening in an imaginary Middle-Eastern kingdom. In this gallery he shows how it grew from his first ideas to the final pages.
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