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Photographer whose perceptive portraits of writers included well-known images of Evelyn Waugh, Doris Lessing and Faber poets of the 1960s

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Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball

After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new

The Guardian - US

“Her family wanted the guitar to go to a good home where it would actually be played. I still can’t believe her generosity”: With the help of a stunning vintage Gibson acoustic, Jussi Reijonen is giving Western folk an Arabian makeover

The Finnish fingerstylist's acoustic reveries are essential listening for fans of Paco de Lucía, Omar Khorshid, and Lenny Breau

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‘It’s a fun cocktail!’: the Wooster Group’s head-spinning blend of high and low art

In wonderfully bewildering shows, New York’s venerable avant garde theatre company mash together everything from baroque opera to sci-fi B-movies. Their next trick? A seance-style tribute to an old friend

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On Being Ill at 100: Virginia Woolf’s ‘best essay’ still shapes how we read sickness

The year is 1926. Queen Elizabeth II is christened. Wage cuts and increased working hours for coal miners precipitate a general strike of workers. A.A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh. The League of Nations accepts Germany as the sixth permanent member on the council deeming it a “peace-loving country”.

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‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie

The Canadian poet, whose winning collection explores environmental and personal loss, discusses making art in existential times

The Guardian - UK

Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize

Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural Canada

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100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon of abject nihilism – had pivoted away from the liberal, philosophical underpinnings of his upbringing and education,…

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Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald

A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world

The Guardian - UK

‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic

Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get published

The Guardian - UK

Helen Grime: Chamber Music review – clarity and colour from one of Britain’s most exciting young composers

Informed by Ted Hughes, TS Eliot and the natural world, Grime’s smaller-scale chamber pieces are alive with instrumental texture

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Cats at 40: a dazzling cast – stuck in an outdated show

The star of the 40th anniversary production of Cats – which premiered at the Theatre Royal Sydney last week – is the performing ensemble.

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‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future

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Nuclear haystacks and the patron saint of tyre repairs – Od arts festival review

There are so many delights in this bite-sized biennale with a wild side – from glowing haystacks to hop-pickers on stilts and star turn the Museum of Roadside Magic

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Euronews Culture Book Club: Four picks for April

Music, matriarchs, and modernism are the themes of this month's book recommendations. This April, we're looking at the latest work from a one of Japan's most exciting writers, and one of the best musical memoirs of recent years.

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Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri review – a slender fable

The magical healing power of a masked costume ball hangs in the balance in this whimsical tale of transformation

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Roger Harcourt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps

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‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi

The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

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‘Transcendental beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy wins him TS Eliot poetry prize

Judges for the £25,00 award say the collection, informed by grief for his two brothers, ‘braves large questions’ with its lyric sequence

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Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories

It’s a creepy time of year from The Archers to Nosferatu to Mark Gatiss’ Woman of Stone

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A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life

It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist

The Guardian - UK

AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows

Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible

The Guardian - UK

On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy review – in the presence of a higher power

Philosopher Simon Critchley’s painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity’s great outliers

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The Independent helps raise £90,000 to return 13th-century Bible to Salisbury Cathedral where it was written

It is only one of six manuscripts to be attributed to the medieval artist the Sarum Master

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New wars, old wars, famine, panic everywhere. So much for a quiet August

From Bangladesh to Venzuela, one calamity rapidly overtakes another, but common denominators include poverty, corruption and lack of hope

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