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The Waldorf Astoria: what the history of this legendary hotel says about today’s crisis of the American establishment

After eight years of renovations, the Waldorf Astoria in New York has reopened and is welcoming new guests. The Waldorf – as most people know it – introduced room service, velvet ropes, red-velvet cake and Thousand Island dressing. It gave its name to a salad, a chain of lunchrooms, as…

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‘Radical acceptance’: Yiyun Li lost both her sons to suicide. Her rigorous memoir reveals her as a very special writer

“My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directness, “Both chose suicide”.

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The Violet Hour by James Cahill review – art, secrets and lies

The Tiepolo Blue author’s impressive second novel is an enthrallingly intricate portrait of the art world

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The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital.

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 14: three English towns form the unlikely end of the Silk Road

If you can’t make it to Samarkand or Xian, visit Jarrow, Lichfield or Southend at the other end of the historic trading route

The Guardian - UK

David Lodge obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

Make every season spooky

Evening Standard

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

‘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

“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

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

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20 of the best supernatural books for splendid spooking

Lovecraftian tales featuring creatures of the night

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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

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

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

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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?

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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.

Salon

Why liberalism drives some people crazy

Examining the psychological demands that liberalism imposes on the modern citizen

Guitar World

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

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

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

Daily Mirror

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

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.

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