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On Being Ill at 100: Virginia Woolf’s ‘best essay’ still shapes how we read sickness

The year is 1926. Queen Elizabeth II is christened. Wage cuts and increased working hours for coal miners precipitate a general strike of workers. A.A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh. The League of Nations accepts Germany as the sixth permanent member on the council deeming it a “peace-loving country”.

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‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

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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The writer Constantine Cavafy was largely unpublished in his lifetime, but was revered by artists.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

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‘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

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English philosophers thought they had sloughed off the dead weight of history, but history suggests otherwise

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in “what people thought but what they were like”.

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‘Deeper than a sexual betrayal’: what happens if your partner doesn’t like your writing?

In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions

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Paul Johnson obituary

Prolific journalist and historian who shifted allegiance from the left of Labour to become an ardent Thatcher supporter

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The 25 best Australian books of 2022: Chloe Hooper, Alex Miller, Jessica Au and more

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

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The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

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The best new books released in September as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ picks include a historical melodrama based on a real-life maybe murder, a romp through the illegal dance halls of 20s London and a gloriously biting satire set in Rwanda.

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Sophie Cunningham on the ‘crazy challenge’ of bringing Leonard and Virginia Woolf to life

The Melbourne author spent 16 years researching and writing her deeply original novel. In the process, This Devastating Fever became about the process too

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Sophie Cunningham's pandemic novel admits literature can't save us – but treasures it for trying

“How good are novels!” So thinks protagonist Alice Fox in This Devastating Fever, the third novel from former publisher Sophie Cunningham. Alice is preparing to chair a panel at a writers’ festival, just as Covid-19 hits the headlines in March 2020.

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Virginia Woolf’s Richmond townhouse goes on sale for £3.5 million

Bloomsbury Group members Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived in the house between 1915 and 1924.

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