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A Month in the Country review – delicate, tragicomic tangle of desire and disappointment

Brian Friel’s version of Turgenev treads lightly between humour and hurt as wayward passions rock a country house

The Guardian - UK

A Month in the Country: Sophie Okonedo makes a fine return to the stage

4/5 At the Donmar Warehouse, Turgenev’s comedy sparkles with a fine cast

Evening Standard

Can books be bad for you? Only if you’re a ‘bad reader’ like Don Quixote

Books as a backdrop in a portrait or an interview lend gravitas. They stand for literacy, for education, for a way to open the mind, develop the imagination and get on in life. But not all books are considered to convey such benefits.

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The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital.

The Conversation

Yiyun Li: ‘I’m not that nice friendly Chinese lady who writes… Being subversive is important to me’

The Chinese American author, whose life has been shaped by tragedy, talks about her strange new novel set in rural France

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet triple bill review – daredevil effervescence and virtuosity

Steven McRae returns from injury to the role he’d made his own in Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody, while two other Ashton works make up an evening of playful combinations and beautifully delineated emotions

The Guardian - UK

How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia's war against Ukraine?

As someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s novels, stories, poems and plays, even at a time when Russian cultural productions are being canceled around the world.

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Famed 198-year-old Russian oak banned from European Tree of the Year contest due to war

The 198-year-old Russian oak tree - planted by novelist Ivan Turgenev and destroyed by a hurricane last year - was disqualified by the European Tree of the Year competition due to the Ukraine invasion

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