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SHOCKING: Em forster - What They Never Told You

Contemplating death helps us to really value life

Letters: Say the thing, mend the relationship, share the story – and then get on with living, says end-of-life doula Rebecca Jo-Rushdy, while Jane Andrew thinks EM Forster said it best

The Guardian - UK

The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’

Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflection

The Guardian - UK

Rob and Rylan’s Passage to India: the funniest TV tour of the country ever created

The odd-couple presenters’ wits are perfectly matched in this treat of a travelogue. It’s a good-natured, sweet show that walks comfortably in contentious territory

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Rob and Rylan’s Passage to India: release date, episode guide, trailer, interviews and everything we know

Rob and Rylan’s Passage to India sees the chalk-and-cheese pair go on a new three-part adventure.

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Lost Alan Turing papers, rediscovered in loft, to go under the hammer

The archive includes the World War II codebreaker’s personal copy of his PhD

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Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya review – teenage lives at the crossroads

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America’s schools

The Guardian - UK

Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’

The American author on the wonder of Little Women, re-evaluating Lolita and her belated discovery of Thoreau

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‘A very camp environment’: why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay

Ubiquity of then-illegal relations at King’s College, Cambridge, explains puzzling 1952 admission, says scholar

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Friday essay: A man out of time – E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India at 100 and the legacies of colonialism

I was aware of David Lean’s cinematic adaptation of A Passage to India (1984) before I encountered E.M. Forster’s original novel, which celebrated its centenary in 2024. While the film was being shot on location, I had a vague sense of the ambition as well as the arrogance of those…

The Conversation

Merchant Ivory review – handsome tribute to the masters of refined costume drama

An insightful appreciation of the director/producer team who gave us The Remains of the Day and launched the careers of Hugh Grant and Helena Bonham Carter

The Guardian - UK

‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage

He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it

The Guardian - UK

Merchant Ivory's in-demand period dramas

Stephen Soucy discusses his documentary that explores the filmmaking duo behind "Howards End," "Maurice" and more

Salon

Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows

The writer Constantine Cavafy was largely unpublished in his lifetime, but was revered by artists. His archive and Alexandrian home are now on show for the first time

The Guardian - UK

There’s a huge, Brexit-shaped hole in this election – that’s why there’s such an air of unreality about it

The disconnect between promises and the material lives of voters that opened up in the referendum has not been repaired, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The Conversation

‘Only disconnect’ – in Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan depicts Britain’s great unravelling

It is Thursday May 20, 2021, and Campbell Flynn – “tall and sharp at fifty-two […] a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished” – makes his way along Piccadilly to sign copies of…

The Guardian - UK

The Barber of Seville review – Rossini’s opera gets a British Victoriana makeover

Cecilia Stinton injects a whiff of EM Forster’s A Room With a View to the comic masterpiece’s well-worn plot

The Guardian - UK

‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory

They were the box-office titans behind sumptuous period masterpieces. Yet underneath, reveals a new warts-and-all film, they were skint, stressed, prone to blood-curdling bust-ups – and ping-ponging between lovers

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The Guardian view on switching off: in an always-on culture, we need time to think

Editorial: Midwinter is for hibernation, and a chance to make different kinds of connections

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“On a few occasions I didn’t bother turning up at the early Hawkwind gigs - I earned more money busking at cinema queues”: Dave Brock’s life and times

From a dreamer using subway tunnels as echo units to leader of the anti-establishment icons, his encounters include Lemmy, LSD and celebrity druids

The Guardian - UK

‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries. You could spend days in its screening rooms alone, says our writer

The Guardian - UK

Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

The Guardian - UK

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution

A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life

Salon

Let's make queer cinema fun again!

Not all queer stories are tragedies. And not all queer stories end in heartbreak, death or great loss

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re not getting any’ – the secret sexual signals in the Bloomsbury Group’s clothes

The Bloomsbury Group weren’t just artistic and sexual pioneers. They also sparked a sartorial revolution. We meet the author of Bring No Clothes, a revealing book about fashion’s queer trailblazers

The Guardian - UK

Nothing Ever Just Disappears review – fascinating journeys into LGBTQ+ courage

Diarmuid Hester’s travelogue celebrates the history of queer spaces in 20th century subculture, from Josephine Baker’s Paris to EM Forster’s Cambridge

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