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David Lodge obituary

Booker prize-nominated author and critic who was known for his Catholic novels and satires on academic life

The Guardian - UK · Jan 3, 2025

The 15 best films of 2024, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: When it comes to cinema, 2024 was a year of toilets, tennis and trash heaps; sand, sadness and Saoirses. From ‘Poor Things’ to ‘Dune: Part Two’, Clarisse Loughrey has selected the greatest movies from the last 12 months

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2024

The Turn of the Screw review – creepy and challenging, ENO’s new Britten staging is an ambiguous triumph

Isabella Bywater’s intelligent and demanding production injects fresh menace into Henry James’s tale of a ghosts and dark histories

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024

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Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

Make every season spooky

Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2024

The Beast review – Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance

Bertrand Bonello’s head-spinning Henry James adaptation set in 1910 Paris, 2014 LA and an AI-controlled 2044 casts a dreamlike spell

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024

‘This is much more intimate’: Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn, 15 years on

The Irish author on the follow-up to his bestselling novel, being blanked at the Oscars and the joys of giving up drinking

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2024

“We did a Pepsi Challenge on the Klon!” Henry James of Robert Jon & The Wreck names his favorite pedals – and his no. 1 Klon clone

It's the return of Pedalpocalypse, “the Desert Island Discs for pedals”, with Henry James from Robert Jon & The Wreck and King Tree & The Earth Mothers on the three pedals he would take with him in the event of a future lockdown

Guitar World · Mar 20, 2024

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Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman review – acid comedy of precarity

The follow-up to The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P is a coruscating portrait of low-wage work in an American big-box store

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024

20 of the best supernatural books for splendid spooking

Lovecraftian tales featuring creatures of the night

Evening Standard · Mar 6, 2024

Sargent and Fashion review – tragicomic travesty is a frock horror

Sargent’s gloriously rich and subtle paintings can’t be reduced to dreary facts about hats, dresses and opera gowns. Sadly, that’s just what’s happened

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – end of the affair

This tale of later-life lovers explores what happens to desire as the body’s powers wane with age

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024

The week in classical: The Turn of the Screw; Wolf Witch Giant Fairy – review

A formidable cast excels in an ingenious, small-scale production of Britten’s ghostly chamber opera; Red Riding Hood clashes with a warbling witch. Plus, a night in with the other Mendelssohn

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2023

In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner

Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023

The Best Netflix Thriller of the Year Reveals a Controversial New Trend

In his final work for Netflix, Mike Flanagan and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are inventing a new kind of television adaptation.

Inverse · Oct 17, 2023

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Salon · Sep 9, 2023

Why liberalism drives some people crazy

Examining the psychological demands that liberalism imposes on the modern citizen

Guitar World · Jun 16, 2023

This week’s essential guitar tracks: from a former Megadeth shredder’s Pink Floyd cover to Dumble-assisted slide brilliance

Fresh six-string inspiration from Joe Bonamassa, Voice of Baceprot, Cory Wong, Alice Cooper, Rivers of Nihil, Duff McKagan and oh so many more

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2023

Brandon Taylor: ‘Writing is the most fun I’m capable of having’

The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2023

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright review – how can one novel contain so much?

Linguistically commodious and panoramically plotted, Wright’s 700-page monster would have given Henry James a heart attack – but it has so much to say

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Daily Mirror · Feb 17, 2023

Parents of quintuplets 'devastated' after 'amazing angel' three-day-old son dies

Henry James, was the fifth of two boys and three girls, born through caesarean section on Sunday, before sadly passing away at three days old

The Conversation · Feb 13, 2023

Valentine's Day: why you should send a love letter not a text – with help from some of English’s greatest writers

Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it seems, is past.

The Conversation · Jan 2, 2023

Melodramatic potboilers, worthy classics and DIY escapism: a brief history of the beach read

“Like most people I read a book or two on holiday,” says Stuart, a character in Julian Barnes’ 1991 novel Talking it Over. He does not have time for recreational reading; it must wait until he is at leisure. His best friend, the erudite but erratically employed Oliver, derides this…

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2022

I’m not stoned, I’m just writing an opera! Colm Tóibín on how he got diva fever

From schoolboy trips to booze-ups with New York garbage men, the novelist recalls how he fell for the fabulous world of opera – and managed to break in, with a staging of his book about Henry James

Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2022

In death as in life, the Queen remains steeped in tradition of royalty

“We all feel a bit motherless today,” wrote Henry James after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. And that’s the feeling lots of people have as they line up along the route of the Queen’s coffin today to salute the longest reigning monarch. Victoria had reigned from the age…

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2022

I’m going through hell for the sake of art. Tolstoy or Henry James could learn a thing or two

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2022

Best hotels in East Sussex for romance and sea views

Enjoy East Sussex’s fantastic foodie spots and walking routes during your stay

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