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Richard Dadd: the painter whose fantastical vision was unconfined by his 43 years in an asylum

Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental illness

The Guardian - UK

Indian national killed in US over family dispute: How a call from 12-year old in closet saved three children

A tragic shooting in Lawrenceville, Georgia, has claimed the lives of four people, including an Indian national. The incident stemmed from a family dispute. A brave 12-year-old child's quick thinking and 911 call alerted authorities. Police arrived swiftly, leading to the arrest of the suspect. The children present escaped unharmed.…

The Times of India

Two women charged after 13 dogs found dead and another 25 rescued from Georgia home

Christine Abbott, 67, and Donna Slavin, 65, face 26 animal cruelty charges

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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift

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The Thursday Murder Club: everything is eclipsed by the cakes in this sanitised Netflix adaptation

In his essay Decline of the English Murder, the writer George Orwell evokes the pleasure to be had in reading about killing. After a good meal (including pudding), you are in the mood to read: “the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is…

The Conversation

More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel

From the Women’s prize to the bestseller lists, authors are pushing the boundaries of how explicit the novel can be – and readers can’t get enough

The Guardian - UK

When did ‘feminist critique’ of celebrities become nothing more than a snide telling-off?

Those delivering paternalistic lectures to Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae and Sydney Sweeney would do well to revisit recent history, says writer Jennifer Jasmine White

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Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves review – a moving variation on Red Riding Hood

Choreography accentuates the otherness of the creatures in a fluid take on the dark coming-of-age fable

The Guardian - UK

Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves review – full-blooded fairytale leaps for the jugular

The pack prowls the stage and falls from the sky in this dark and dynamic production combining Carter’s rich gothic language with impressive aerial skills

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Sue Perkins’s cultural highlights

The broadcaster and standup comedian on her love of Angela Carter, bewitching Budapest, and a pizza restaurant that fuses Indian and Italian cuisine

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Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – hard times in Madrid

A vivid debut of trans life in Spain after Franco observes a world of violence and petty cruelties with compassion

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review

Richard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale with circus gaiety; and a young couple unravel beautifully in Bijan Sheibani’s latest

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Blue Beard review – Emma Rice’s fairytale hits home with horror and pizzazz

This eccentric retelling of the bloody story flamboyantly combines songs and pop culture gags but still shocks

The Guardian - UK

The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova review – stunning short stories

There’s a glorious excess to these weirdly baroque tales, which set their sights on exploitation and English exceptionalism

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‘Not for the faint-hearted’: the gripping, horrifying show about the Marquis de Sade

His name has become a byword for extreme sexual depravity. But was there more to the French nobleman who spent much of his life in jail? Our writer finds out at a new exhibition in Barcelona investigating his shocking work

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10 of the best – and most unexpected – erotic books

From Mary Wesley’s throuples to James Baldwin’s heartbreak in Paris, writers have long been obsessed by ‘the most sought-after and least examined emotion’. Here Lucy Knight picks her top 10

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Top 10 stories about wolves

Writers including Angela Carter, Karen Russell and Jiang Rong have looked into the eyes of an animal that roams widely through our stories and stalks our collective imagination

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‘Turning into a wolf was fantastic’: how we made The Company of Wolves

‘Our budget was tiny. The forest was 12 trees on rollers – and for long shots we used bonsai. The crew had worked on Star Wars and thought we were absurd’

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Top 10 retold fairytales

The best retellings of these archetypal stories can restore a childlike wonder – and offer startling new reflections of the world we live in now

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Colette at 150: why the scandalous 20th-century writer remains a revered literary figure in France

Colette, as British author Angela Carter pointed out in a wittily perceptive article in 1980, is perhaps the only 20th-century woman writer to be commonly referred to by her surname only.

Salon

Where are all the female werewolves?

Werewolves have never been as popular as vampires or zombies. They've also overwhelmingly been male

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Carmen Callil, pioneering champion of female writers, dies aged 84

Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

‘A real subversive, sprightly granny’: working with Angela Lansbury by director Neil Jordan

Film-maker Neil Jordan cast Angela Lansbury in his exotic horror folk-tale The Company of Wolves, released in 1984. Here he remembers working with an actor who ‘always understood’

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about twins

Writers from William Shakespeare to Angela Carter and George RR Martin have been been inspired by the doubled lives of these familial pairs

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