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Gut-punches and belly laughs: in George Saunders' dark flights of fantasy there's the gleam of something precious

George Saunders is best known for his only novel to date, the Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Lincoln in the Bardo. But he has long been celebrated for his innovative short fiction, which has won him a litany of prestigious awards and fellowships. In 2013, Time Magazine…

The Conversation

Sam Byers: ‘JM Coetzee made me vegetarian’

The novelist on being inspired by the Beats, discovering Chekhov, and taking notes from Pierre Boulez

The Guardian - UK

Amanda Redman says Dennis Waterman's death from lung cancer 'knocked her sideways'

Amanda Redman and Dennis Waterman had known each other for 40 years and worked on huge BBC hit drama New Tricks together for a decade

Daily Mirror

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'Stranger Things' stage play: ‘Cursed Child’ and 3 more theatrical ideas

The Duffer Brothers take to the stage with a play set in the world of 'Stranger Things.' Here are a few ideas for them.

Inverse

Avignon festival woos Covid-weary public back to theatres

Organisers of the Avignon international festival that opens Thursday are hoping to rekindle the public's taste for theatre. With a range of live performances and events, the festival will try to reboot a sector that has suffered badly because of the Covid pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

The Chekhov museum in Ukraine under fire from Russian missiles

The writer said he had ‘left his soul behind in Luka’, and wrote of the place in his plays and stories. Sanaa Abdulaziz reports on Chekhov’s beloved home in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Steppenwolf’s succinct ‘Seagull’ flies a direct route from one heartbreak to the next

A spare, nuanced, emotionally crystalline staging of the Chekhov classic inaugurates the theater’s new space on Halsted.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Commentary: Putin’s war is shattering my Russian identity

“Russia is not Putin.” As a lecturer in Russian history, and an ex-Soviet Russian American, I have said these words many times. But now the treasures of Russia’s culture — its poetry, novels, movies, theater, symphonies — must be weighed against the current regime’s premeditated murder of the innocent. In…

Los Angeles Times

How Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted three stories and a play to create 'Drive My Car'

LOS ANGELES — Japanese auteur Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted a roughly 40-page Haruki Murakami short story into a fully realized, seamless three-hour film, "Drive My Car." But it was much more involved than that: He actually took material from three Murakami stories, and within that adaptation, he included significant passages of…

Los Angeles Times

How Vladimir Putin's security obsession has eroded Russian living standards

Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov famously advised young playwrights that “if in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.”

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