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Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read

It’s easy to dismiss holiday novels as pulpy, but relaxing with a book you enjoy has huge health benefits. Here’s how to read yourself happy this summer

The Guardian - UK

Anna Karenina review – Tolstoy’s tragedy fizzes with theatrical brilliance

Natalie Dormer is exceptional in the title role while Phillip Breen’s production reflects the scope of the novel’s ambition, though the story never fully reaches its emotional depths

The Guardian - UK

‘A gift of a role for a mother’: Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer on playing Tolstoy’s tortured Anna Karenina

From Anne Boleyn to Lady W to Game of Thrones, she has played tough women who kick against society’s constraints. What will the actor bring to the great Russian character who leaves her husband and son?

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Chichester Festival theatre announces first Hamlet, starring Giles Terera

Justin Audibert’s production with the Hamilton star is part of season including Top Hat, Natalie Dormer’s Anna Karenina and new play Safe Space

The Guardian - UK

A tale of unhappy families summons the fierce politics of Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, first published in 1878, the year Russia’s imperial war against the Ottoman Empire concluded – a war that had prompted international alarm about Russian expansionism and fomented internal unrest.

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Alone time: reassessing Greta Garbo, 100 years after her screen debut

The icy glamour of Garbo’s doomed heroines is genuinely iconic, but cinema’s most famous loner could also do comedy. A century after her first appearance – and 83 years since her last, here’s why Hollywood missed her so badly

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: it’s Peaky Blinders week on Bring The Drama

Bill Bailey’s strangely addictive acting competition heads to Birmingham. Plus: more witchy love on Domino Day. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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Work hard, play hard: final bow after 22 years of dance

Australian Ballet dancer Amy Harris says there will be happiness and tears when the curtain falls on her 22 year career.

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Anna Karenina review – sparky feminist reading of Tolstoy

Lesley Hart’s adaptation of the classic novel is driven with tremendous energy following its tragic heroine as she discards bourgeois convention

The Guardian - UK

‘I am no thief’: Author John Hughes responds to plagiarism controversy

Material from books including ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ was discovered in novelist’s 2021 work ‘The Dogs’

The Independent UK

‘This is a life’s dream’: Australian ballet star Callum Linnane puts his best foot forward

A dancer since he was seven, Australian Ballet’s new principal artist talks about his surprise promotion on stage, struggling in lockdown and what he wants to do next

The Guardian - AU

Anna Karenina review – overthought and underdone

Though well acted, this revival of Helen Edmundson’s 1992 adaptation doesn’t feel ready for the big stage

The Guardian - UK

Anna Karenina review: Tolstoy’s heroine is brought to magnetic, maddening life by Adelle Leonce

Anthony Lau delivers a stylish production at the Sheffield Crucible, set in a glittering, heightened contemporary world of neon outfits and disco balls. Yet while the first half flies by, something goes awry after the interval

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