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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 · Sep 23, 2022

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 · Jul 22, 2022

'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 · Jul 8, 2022

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 · Mar 3, 2022

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.”

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2022