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33 days ago

An inspector’s calling: JB Priestley’s plea for justice echoes beyond his best-known play ⊕⊕

His parable of collective social responsibility is a hardy classic but the Yorkshire playwright’s wider legacy should not be neglected

How on earth does one sum up JB Priestley? He wrote 39 plays, 26 …

35 days ago

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever ⊖⊖

With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times

Pier Paolo Pasolini was m…

4 months ago

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery

There’s no getting around it: Dreaming of Dead People is an extr…

The Beatles to Virginia Woolf: UK tree of the year shortlist is rooted in culture

Woodland Trust’s 10 nominees from across the country highlight how trees inspire creative minds

A cedar tree climbed by the Beatles, an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf and a lime representi…

Sorry, Baby is a smart film about sexual assault and it’s here at just the right time | Adrian Horton

Eva Victor’s intelligent and subtle debut film tells the story of the aftermath of an assault and as the backlash to #MeToo increases, it serves an important purpose

About 25 minutes into Sorry, Baby,…

6 months ago

Spent by Alison Bechdel review – the graphic novelist faces up to midlife

In this playfully fictionalised memoir, Alison runs a pygmy goat sanctuary while making a name for herself on stage and screen

Alison Bechdel emerged in the 1980s with Dykes to Watch Out For, a ground…

A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi review – a fable about self-mythology

This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild ride

How many selves do we house? Thousands, thought Virginia Woolf. Are they one and the same? Not acc…

7 months ago

Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just that

In her landmark 1985 work, The Body in Pain, American essayist Elaine Scarry…

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