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Almost a century after Virginia Woolf’s 'A Room of One’s Own' essay, women are driving the housing market

Woolf would be pleasantly surprised that today, women having a whole house of their own is not only commonplace but a key driver of the housing market.

Fortune

Last surviver of the Bloomsbury Group? Meet David ‘Bunny’ Garnett, 1972

A memorable overnight stay in the writer’s cobwebby French farmhouse

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for owners: former Chelsea home of Samuel Beckett for sale for £5.5m

48 Paultons Square has been home to two Nobel Prize winners: dramatist Samuel Beckett, who lived there in 1934, and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969

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Helen Garner, Virginia Woolf and Max Porter headline Belvoir St theatre’s 2025 program

‘Electrifying’ Judy Davis will star in adaptation of The Spare Room, with Colin Friels as King Lear later in the season

The Guardian - AU

There's no X in Brazil. Celebrity fandom worldwide is in disarray

It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time

The Independent UK

Kensington apartment in Virginia Woolf's childhood home goes on the market for £2.45 million

22 Hyde Park Gate was the birthplace of one of the greatest 20th-century writers, but it hides a dark past

Evening Standard

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel

A young queer activist looks back on how a complex life unspooled into a final, fatal act in the award-winning poet’s ambitious, unflinching tale

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‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism

The Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soul

The Guardian - UK

A Netflix film, statue and a newly discovered first edition: joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn

As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

The Independent UK

Paul Preciado on his Orlando film: 'There is no trans question'

Paul Preciado interprets Virginia Woolf’s work in 'Orlando, My Political Biography'

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Orlando, My Political Biography review – inventive spin on Virginia Woolf’s novel

Trans director Paul B Preciado uses Woolf’s classic text as a literary exploration and an intimate personal journey to powerful effect

The Guardian - UK

‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary

The Guardian - UK

Orlando, My Political Biography review – Woolf’s trans hero gets a 21st-century mashup

Tricksy documentary spin on 1928 novel weaves fact and fiction to reconsider and reimagine the time-travelling story for our time

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Who's afraid of a 1000-seat theatre? Not Virginia Woolf

Melbourne's Red Stitch Theatre is taking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from an 80-seat venue to the 1000-seat Comedy Theatre.

The Guardian - UK

Orlando by Virginia Woolf audiobook review – a superb reading by Juliet Stevenson

The actor expertly navigates the detours of Virginia Woolf’s adventure – a feminist fantasy that speaks to our times

The Independent UK

At 61, ballerina Alessandra Ferri is giving her pointe shoes one last — maybe? — glorious whirl

When Alessandra Ferri, one of the world's most celebrated dramatic ballerinas, takes the stage Friday at the Metropolitan Opera House to channel Virginia Woolf, logic dictates it will be her last dance appearance

The Conversation

A wealthy housewife longs to go wild, in a brilliant riff on Virginia Woolf

A storm is brewing, both literal and metaphoric, in “the suburbs of the east”. In a burst of poetic and darkly humorous prose, Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead unleashes the turbulent interior life of its protagonist, Winona Dalloway, onto the page.

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How Rachel Cusk’s divisive parenting memoir saved me in early motherhood

Her groundbreaking book ‘Matrescence’, a study of the transition into motherhood, has won Lucy Jones plaudits and an army of dedicated readers. But she could never have written it all without Rachel Cusk’s unflinching 2001 parenting memoir, ‘A Life’s Work’ – a book that was met with frenzied outrage upon…

Evening Standard

The Amalfi Coast hotspots for literature lovers

An hour’s drive from the grit and grime of Naples lies a glittering stretch of coastline that’s so jaw-droppingly beautiful, it’s served as the setting for many an ancient myth.

Evening Standard

Gardener's notebook: Bohemia's women gardeners and Belgravia's flower festival are two Bank Holiday musts

Looking for Bank Holiday entertainment that includes your love for gardens? The Garden Museum and Belgravia in Bloom have you covered

The Guardian - UK

Deborah Levy: ‘Writing and swimming help each other’

The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing

The Guardian - UK

Sansara/Manchester Collective review – an exquisitely colourful tribute to Rothko Chapel

Morton Feldman’s 1971 work and three responses to it made for a fascinating concert

The Guardian - AU

Thunderhead by Miranda Darling review – pacy Sydney thriller hits a superficial note

This tightly plotted story shows a woman on the brink, and doesn’t make much room for anything else

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare’s Sisters by Ramie Targoff review – four women who wrote the Renaissance

This lively, accessible insight into four female writers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores the complex political, patriarchal and religious backdrop to their lives

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