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The best closing lines from books - from poignant final passages to chilling closing sentences

These brilliant closing lines will stay with you long after you put the book down

Woman & Home

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The Guardian - UK

Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals

New collection of author’s diary entries provides tragic insight

The Guardian - UK

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Does taking part in Veganuary put people off meat in the long term? Here’s what the evidence shows

Humans have long wrestled with their conscience about killing and eating animals. The “meat paradox” (the conflict between people’s preference for meat and their concern for animals) may have inspired cave paintings from 37,000 years ago. Since then, many leading thinkers have eschewed meat, including Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary…

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What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost

The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration

The Guardian - UK

The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

The Guardian - AU

Your Monster is a fairytale of rage about the horrors of musical theatre

“He really loves her,” cries Laura (Melissa Barrera) at the start of Your Monster. Post-break-up, she appears to be reading a weepy romance – but it’s actually a copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The creature may be a monster, but he’s not a monster.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein gets spooky first look with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi

It's alive!

Total Film

‘A final warning from God’: Lech Blaine’s memoir pits an average Australian family against an avenging archangel

They say everyone has a book inside them. Some people are unfortunate enough to have more than one.

The Conversation

Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blaine review – a sensational tale, skilfully told

Author’s compassion and progressive vision of family stand out in incredible saga charting the acrimonious relationship between two families

The Guardian - AU

‘I lived in absolute fear of him’: Lech Blaine on finding humanity in the born-again prophets who terrorised his family

Blaine’s working-class Queensland family represented everything Michael Shelley hated about Australia. The only problem was his children were Blaines

The Guardian - AU

Best Gothic novels for classic, dramatic and unsettling stories

Make every season spooky

Evening Standard

The Sorrows of Young Werther at 250: Goethe’s dangerous romantic hero influenced fashion, fiction – and Napoleon

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

Frankenstein review – a ruthless, stylish addition to the canon

Shake and Stir’s stage version finds plenty of modern parallels to Mary Shelley’s tale of creator and creation – especially as the lines between human and machine continue to blur

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Why Taylor Swift’s gothic work is as important as the novels of Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker

Taylor Swift has cultivated a global brand that might seem incompatible with the darkness, abjection and monstrosity of gothic fiction. But, beneath the friendship bracelets and sequins, her global Eras Tour makes extensive use of gothic elements to engage her audience and articulate her feminist politics.

The Guardian - UK

Shelley Duvall obituary

Film actor who starred in The Shining and made seven films with Robert Altman

Total Film

Mia Goth teases Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein movie: "It’s everything I wanted it to be and more"

Exclusive | The star couldn't be more excited about the director's adaptation of the iconic Mary Shelley novel

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‘I’ve always been compelled by Frankenstein’: Tai Shani at The Cosmic House

Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani references the deconstructed human form at The Cosmic House in London's Holland Park

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The Guardian - UK

Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey review – why is it always apocalypse now?

This entertaining study of our obsession with Armageddon and its energising impact on the arts shows that every generation believes it will witness the world’s end

The Guardian - UK

Frankenstein review – Imitating the Dog’s experiment never quite comes to life

The company’s trademark fusion of live performance and digital wizardry doesn’t quite hang together in a radical take on Mary Shelley

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5 movies like 'Poor Things' to stream right now

Here are some offbeat movies to watch after you see 'Poor Things'

The Guardian - UK

What links William Tell with Joan of Arc? The Saturday quiz

From Scooby-Doo to the Dead Sea scrolls, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Frankenstein review – muscular but ungainly update has visible stitching

Imitating the Dog follow their innovative Dracula and Night of the Living Dead with a version of Shelley’s classic that bolts on a contemporary story about impending parenthood

The Hindu

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Evening Standard

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

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