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Secret twins? A casually brutal biography of Joan Didion and ‘soul mate’ Eve Babitz blurs ethical boundaries, but exhilarates

Lili Anolik admits her first book on Eve Babitz, Hollywood’s Eve, was a way of “driving a stake” through her subject’s heart, hoping to end her self-confessed “unbalanced, fetishistic” obsession with the bohemian LA writer.

The Conversation

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

The Guardian - AU

MaddAdam at the Royal Ballet review: Margaret Atwood's nightmarish dystopia is richly beautiful

3/5 An empathetic reckoning with the end of the world leaves you clinging to dance and music

Evening Standard

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‘Beyond Bloomsbury’: the life of Dora Carrington

A new exhibition, ‘Beyond Bloomsbury’, at Pallant House Gallery, UK, explores the life and loves of artist Dora Carrington

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What Kim Jones did next: 'Money is worth less than time'

He’s quit Fendi, but what will Kim Jones do next? First stop, Sotheby’s

Evening Standard

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy

THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and biographies

The Independent UK

Radical modernity: Kim Jones on curating Charleston for Sotheby's

As the newly appointed vice president of Charleston, Jones is curating a two-part selling and loan exhibition at Sotheby’s, ‘Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston’

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Michelle de Kretser writes back to the ‘Woolfmother’ in Theory & Practice

The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel Theory & Practice is younger than I was when she realises something we all do, eventually: sometimes there can be a great chasm between what we say, write, and purport to know and believe, and what we do.

The Conversation

Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces

The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance

The Guardian - UK

Vanessa Bell review – sidelined Bloomsbury figure reveals main character energy

Usually relegated to the roles of hostess, lover or muse, the painter’s independent spirit shines through in the power of the patterns and colours in this, the largest solo show ever devoted to her work

The Guardian - UK

Karl Ove Knausgård: ‘The book that changed me as a teenager? The History of Bestiality’

The Norwegian author on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges

The Guardian - UK

Being dangerously thin is back in. Is the body-positivity era officially over?

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons put their Botoxed heads together and decreed this the ‘ballet body’ era

The Guardian - US

Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith found a clarity on stage that in some ways surpassed her screen work

Her stage work in the 1970s in Canada gave her a chance to reinvent herself and reach wonderful levels of performance

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Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout: ‘I would never ask someone to read my books!’

The Pulitzer winner on rereading Virginia Woolf, falling out of love with John Cheever, and the Pushkin story that made her cry

The Guardian - UK

Fendi marks 100th year with 1920s-inspired Milan fashion week show

Art deco detailing, baguette handbags and era-defining ensembles pepper collection by artistic director Kim Jones

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - AU

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 Independent UK

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

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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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