The eagle's nest

Ken Loach’s 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he take...

Penelope emerges favourably from comparison with Clytemnestra and Helen, the main paradigms of infidelity in the present, and with the Nekyia’s catalogue of past heroines. The vuln...