Category Culture

At the height of the Roman empire, after its conquest of Egypt in 30BC, luxurious Indian goods suddenly became available to Europeans in unprecedented quantities. No one could resist them. So much gold and silver flowed away to India to pay…

“I call everything a story, I don’t distinguish between genres,” writes Pedro Almodóvar in his introduction to The Last Dream – ostensibly the veteran Spanish film-maker’s first collection of short stories, though, sure enough, that description doesn’t quite cover it.…