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‘Deeper than a sexual betrayal’: what happens if your partner doesn’t like your writing?

In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions

The Guardian - US

Friday essay: cancellation or conflicted joy – grappling with the work of our 'art monsters'

Author Claire Dederer started off writing a book about the film director Roman Polanski. Forty-five years ago, Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

The Conversation

A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The Guardian - UK

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Plot by Claudia Rankine review – the lives of mothers

The award-winning author of Citizen turns her mind to the complexities of balancing art and parenting

The Guardian - UK

Xiaolu Guo: ‘It would be tacky to ask: can you forgive me for writing this?’

The Chinese-British author on leaving her family to find creative freedom, the effect on those she writes about in her revealing new book, and the power of Moby-Dick

The Guardian - UK

Full of Days review – the wonderfully strange artist discovered in a charity shop haul

Hermione Burton was an amateur painter with immaculate outfits but a turbulent life. Now artist Andy Holden has excavated her rollercoaster story in a film starring Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell

The Guardian - UK

British actor Tilda Swinton on playing two roles in 'The Eternal Daughter'

Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton has worked with some of the world's most gifted directors: Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, Bong Joon-ho and the Coen brothers. Her latest film is her third with her longtime friend and collaborator, British director Joanna Hogg. "The Eternal Daughter" is a contemplation of life and death,…

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Antiques Road Trip presenter makes guess about painting without seeing it

Philip called on his co-presenter for advice

Liverpool Echo

Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie

Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to write and I am going to write’: The lost world of Zelda Fitzgerald

Her husband F Scott Fitzgerald called her ‘America’s first flapper’, but Zelda Fitzgerald, who died 75 years ago, was much more than the tragic wife and muse of a famous male writer. Kat Lister explores her literary legacy

The Independent UK

The 15 greatest speeches of all time, by 15 inspirational women

We celebrate the greatest speeches of all time, spoken by women who have changed the world for the better

Marie Claire

Woolf Works review – Alessandra Ferri goes deeper in Wayne McGregor’s modern masterpiece

The Italian star graces a flawless revival of McGregor’s dreamlike 2015 ballet inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf

The Guardian - UK

Woolf Works review – the wondrous Alessandra Ferri flies again

Returning to the role created for her by Wayne McGregor, the dancer portrays the great modernist with emotional power

The Guardian - UK

Woolf Works at the Royal Opera House review: Wayne McGregor’s masterful ballet is a heartbreaker

Alessandra Ferri resumes the central role and, at nearly 60, anchors a ballet about how it feels to sift through memory

Evening Standard

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From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

Daily Mirror

Legends and characters in books, TV and film 'you didn't realise were LGBTQ+'

Myths and legends geek Dan Jones' book - Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend - features characters including god Achilles, Wonder Woman, and Barbie's Ken doll

The Guardian - UK

Alessandra Ferri: ‘Dancing with Nureyev, I swear he had an energetic aura around him’

The principal ballerina on portraying Virginia Woolf, why she’s so enthusiastic about ageing, and what she learned from the greats

The Independent UK

‘It was always an artist’s garden’: How Charleston became Vanessa Bell’s muse

In her new book, ‘Why Women Grow’, Alice Vincent explores why women turn to the soil. In this extract, she retraces the steps of artist Vanessa Bell among the apple trees and rose bushes of Charleston in Sussex

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'After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography.

The Conversation

Can reading help heal us and process our emotions – or is that just a story we tell ourselves?

The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: Psyches Iatreion, translated as “healing place of the soul”.

The Independent UK

2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Young Bloomsbury,' by Nino Strachey

NONFICTION: This book about the lesser known junior members of the Bloomsbury Group leaves the reader wanting for more.

The Independent UK

National Portrait Gallery announces reopening date in June

A new wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the redevelopment.

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

The Independent UK

A 'downtown' choreographer brings her craft to the opera

You could call choreographer Annie-B Parson a “downtown” choreographer

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