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Muriel Zagha

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Covers:  All aspects of French culture and society. Cinema and the visual arts; literature; theatre.
BBC, TLS, Engelsberg Ideas, Spectator, Telegraph. Writer, broadcaster. ‘Scribe’ (Private Eye)

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Muriel Zagha’s Biography

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I grew up in Paris. I am a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and hold a French PhD on Henry James. I am a freelance writer and broadcaster based in London. My work appears in the TLS, Engelsberg Ideas and The Spectator. I am co-host of the cross-cultural podcast Garlic & Pearls which explores aspects of Britishness and Frenchness. I appear on BBC and Times Radio as a cultural commentator and I have made programmes about French culture for Radio 4 and Radio 3. I have published three novel…

Muriel Zagha’s Journalist Portfolio

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Cinematic journeys in old-time Finland

Cinematic journeys in old-time Finland

In Aki Kaurismäki's constructed reality, Finland's Old World is not only remembered but also, beguilingly, re…

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Powell and Pressburger's tribute to art as a form of possession

Powell and Pressburger's tribute to art as a form of possession

The British Film Institute is marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger'…

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Powell and Pressburger worked miracles

Powell and Pressburger worked miracles

A retrospective of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's oeuvre at the British Film Institute (BFI) brings …

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A new film full of stars, about making a film full of stars

A new film full of stars, about making a film full of stars

Official Competition, by the Argentine directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, is a satirical comedy about …

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Two new films address difficult patriarchal relationships

Two new films address difficult patriarchal relationships

Although radically different, these films both portray atypical family structures among the bourgeoisie; in p…

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Au-delà d'Agatha Christie, qui sont les autres reines du crime british ? - Les Inrocks

Au-delà d'Agatha Christie, qui sont les autres reines du crime british ? - Les Inrocks

Si en France on connaît surtout Agatha Christie, quatre autres autrices ont régné sur l'âge d'or du "crime no…

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The furniture designer who introduced Art Deco to the world

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By Muriel Zagha
| The World of Interiors Verified
‘As much backward-looking as forward-looking’ is how Jared Goss describes the French incarnation of Art Deco, an international design movement with so many facets that it was really more ‘an idiom, taste or sensibility than a unified style’. In this gloriously illustrated book, Goss, an independent scholar and erstwhile associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum, zeroes in on the mode’s specifically Gallic roots.
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Want to understand the difference between Britain and France? Watch reality TV

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By Muriel Zagha, Katy Holland
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Want to understand the difference between Britain and France? Watch reality TV

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By Muriel Zagha
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Entertainment has always been key to unlocking history. In reading the plays of Sophocles, we can understand the preoccupations of fifth-century Athens, and we look to Shakespeare to transport us to the streets of Elizabethan England. Which makes us wonder – centuries from now, when historians look back at our current era, what will they study to understand our particular societies? We are leaving behind an abundant archive of evidence. Much of the ancient world survives only in fragments.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Editorial assistant on the lifestyle section of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

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