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For work and play: film director Stanley Kubrick's former home and studio is for sale

The late film director lived at the property for 14 years, while he worked on films such as The Shining and A Clockwork Orange

Evening Standard

Murder Mindfully episode 1 recap: 'I didn’t even kill anybody until I was 42'

Murder Mindfully episode 1 sees Björn finally discover inner peace... and perhaps he's inner killer!

WhatToWatch

What Sigmund Freud can teach us about the Middle East and #MeToo

In a world ravaged by war and sexual violence, a new edition of the great psychoanalyst’s works is a reminder of his continuing relevance, says academic Jacqueline Rose

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The Taming of the Shrew review – full of foolishness, low on laughs

Bold, absurdist ideas jostle for attention in Jude Christian’s bemusing new production, turning Shakespeare’s tricky tale into a child’s silly game

The Guardian - UK

‘It was high time I told our stories’: Jenny Erpenbeck on her International Booker winner Kairos

A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political

The Guardian - UK

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Booker prize – a chaotic love at the end of times

German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker prize for the novel Kairos.

The Conversation

Utopia gone wrong: identity and history intersect in Jenny Erpenbeck’s haunting new novel

Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann, is a story about a relationship between a young woman and an older married man, set against the backdrop of the final years of the German Democratic Republic.

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3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos and Oksana Lutsyshyna's Ivan and Phoebe help readers connect with time past.

WEKU

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a monumental breakup

The contours of a relationship are echoed by the collapse of East Germany in this invigorating novel of lost love

The Guardian - UK

From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

The Guardian - UK

How homemade mayo helped me postpartum

Companionship during new parenthood comes from the most unexpected of places

Salon

Prenatal depression: My fourth pregnancy left me blindsided — it felt like there was no support

Filmmaker Katharina Koall felt hopeless and alone while pregnant with her fourth child — until her neighbour introduced her to cold-water swimming. She hopes her documentary about the experience will help other expectant mothers who are struggling

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