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The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance

When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.

The Conversation

Madeleine Riffaud obituary

Member of the French resistance during the second world war arrested and tortured for her dramatic act of revolt

The Guardian - UK

Resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud's century of words and wars

Madeleine Riffaud's life was woven by struggle, writing and three wars – a century of resilience and resistance. The renowned French journalist, who fought the Nazis as a teenage Resistance fighter and later covered conflicts from Algeria to Vietnam, died this week in Paris at the age of 100.

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‘You struggled with my film? Fantastic!’ Alice Rohrwacher and her riotous new tomb-raiding tale

La Chimera looks like a crime caper about looters in 1980s Italy. But it’s about way more than that. The great director, loved by everyone from Scorsese to Gerwig, talks about the dark secrets of the heart – and her debt to bees

The Guardian - UK

The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan review – surprisingly uplifting

From Charlotte Brontë grieving Emily to Ted Hughes lamenting a lamb, this exceptional anthology of poems is full of scholarly discernment

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: a lament for the lost art of letter-writing – a radical art form reflecting 'the full catastrophe of life'

Letters did not count [as writing]. A woman might write letters while sitting by her father’s sick-bed. She could write them by the fire while the men talked without disturbing them. The strange thing is, I thought, turning over the pages of Dorothy’s letters, what a gift that untaught and…

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Top 10 love poems

For Valentine’s, or really any other day, here are some works by poets from Plath to Rilke that express some of our own most intimate feelings

The Guardian - UK

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'Skin and sinew and breath and longing': reimagining the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf

After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz’s reimagining of the lives of 19th and 20th century women artists, activists and sapphists is a book I’ve always wanted to read. (And it’s just been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.)

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Rainer review – a feverish rollercoaster ride around London

Sorcha Kennedy gives an astonishing performance as a cycle delivery rider with grand literary dreams

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