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The amount of space allocated in our social memory to historical events is strangely uneven. Pandemics seem more than usually susceptible to social forgetting, particularly if we look at the so-called Spanish flu. It had an almost unimaginable death toll…

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, the Spanish director’s first film in English, has won the Golden Lion, the top prize, at the Venice International Film Festival. The most memorable moment of the ceremony, taking place at the festival’s campus…