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Kristen Stewart is set to star as iconic feminist writer Susan Sontag in a biopic

Alert the literati — Susan Sontag is getting a biopic and Kristen Stewart is set to play the late writer-provocateur.

Los Angeles Times

Tourists in our own reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50

This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. Slightly edited and renamed In Plato’s Cave, it would become the first essay in her collection On Photography, which has never been out of print.

The Conversation

Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

The Guardian - UK

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‘For gays, this is our moon landing’: the unadulterated camp joy of Real Housewives

Lisa Rinna leaving the franchise sparked a wave of communication from concerned friends, while asking which version someone prefers is the perfect ice-breaker. Welcome to Real Housewives obsession

The Guardian - UK

TikTok's addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive "The Metamorphosis" for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web.

Los Angeles Times

Thanksgiving, but make it camp

In theater, camp can equal freedom as an actor. I think it can offer the same in your holiday kitchen

Salon

‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

The Guardian - UK

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To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives

A Chris Killip and Graham Smith retrospective from the 70s and 80s captures an absence of hope still felt today

The Guardian - UK

Jean-Luc Godard: Master of French cinema who pushed boundaries

At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time

The Independent UK

Margaret Keane obituary

The Guardian - UK

Is it possible to be a mother and pursue a creative life? Yes, but it is never easy

A new book explores how pregnancy and motherhood affected the lives of artists including Audre Lorde and Susan Sontag. At our current moment, the questions it raises take on additional urgency

The Guardian - US

Friday essay: grey-haired and radiant – reimagining ageing for women

Ageist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise insist on political correctness, will open their mouths and deliver a hurtful, hateful judgement.

The Conversation

Class, queerness and illness in the ‘post-crisis’ era: rewriting the narrative of HIV

I often read a book’s acknowledgments to see who an author thanks for supporting the creation of their work and how they go about thanking them.

The Conversation

In her gracious acceptance of death, Deborah James has given us lessons in how to live

None of us truly knows how we will behave when the inevitable gets ever closer. Facing it squarely might allow us to savour those final moments

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One Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina Stibbe review – a droll take on female friendship

The Love, Nina author’s new novel has all its predecessors’ gossipy bookishness and quirky charm

The Conversation

So what is the good of book reviewing? A review of a review of the reviewers

Imagine you’re the literary editor for a major US newspaper, like The New York Times or The Washington Post. You know that getting a good notice in your paper can launch the career of a young writer and you’re far from indifferent to the fate of literary culture. You majored…

Tribune News Service

Pankaj Mishra: US and Europe should stop congratulating themselves

Cold War language about Western unity and the “long fight” against autocracy has become more rousing as Russia flounders in Ukraine. It is time to start worrying that the response to Vladimir Putin's aggression, led by U.S. President Joe Biden, might cause more widespread damage than even the Russian despot…

Salon

A brief LGBT+ history of camp

Since its inception in the 20th century, camp has helped queer communities better understand the world around them

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LGBT+ history: the story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X

Although camp is difficult to define, it probably doesn’t need much description.

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