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If this is your first time listening to Mac Cornish, hearing her tell of the serendipitous circumstances by which she wrote the song 'Wayfaring Woman' - which she performs here for the roving documentary channel Western AF - would not stir you in the least to expect the sheer power of her voice, a captivating instrument which is deep...

The poem 'Love Recognized' by Robert Penn Warren seems to portray the onrush of love less as a time of connection or magical transformation than as some kind of isolating and cataclysmic event. The guiding metaphor is one of snow that far from cosseting the landscape or allowing us to hunker down cosily against a backdrop of brilliant white...

M.I.A. has always elicited her share of controversy in a way that much like her music cuts across fields or genres or zones and resolutely subverts all expectations. That might involve the trenchant support for the Sri Lankan Tamils which is part of her heritage, her daring evocations of the immigrant experience which suggest a capacity to engage and...