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 · Sep 27, 2024
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 · Sep 27, 2024
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 The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2024
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 · Sep 17, 2024
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 · Sep 15, 2024
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 Evening Standard · Sep 10, 2024
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 · Sep 9, 2024
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 · Sep 4, 2024
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 · Aug 25, 2024
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 The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2024
‘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 · Aug 10, 2024
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 · Jul 21, 2024
‘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 · Jul 19, 2024
Paul Preciado on his Orlando film: 'There is no trans question' Paul Preciado interprets Virginia Woolf’s work in 'Orlando, My Political Biography' Wallpaper · Jul 10, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024 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 · Jul 3, 2024 ‘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 · Jul 2, 2024 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
AAP · Jul 2, 2024 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 · Jun 28, 2024 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 · Jun 27, 2024 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 · Jun 24, 2024 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.
The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2024 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 · May 25, 2024 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 · May 25, 2024 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 · May 11, 2024 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