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The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment

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Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

The Guardian - UK

Compagnie Maguy Marin: May B review – an absurdly beautiful dance translation of Samuel Beckett

The French choreographer’s 1981 interpretation of the playwright’s world rewards patience with its magic and precision

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The Swimmer, Russian thugs, Jesus’ feet: Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

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‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool

Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024

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‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more

The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work

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‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot

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Knife by Salman Rushdie review – a story of hatred defeated by love

A book its author ‘would much rather not have needed to write’ ranges far beyond his attempted murder and recovery

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Women have found their voice in Turkey, and given hope to others fighting for democracy across the globe

Big opposition wins in last week’s elections reasserted the country’s liberal, secular values, says novelist Elif Shafak

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“Lyrically, it’s something that makes Samuel Beckett sound like Tommy Cooper." Tim Bowness and the story of Flowers At The Scene

Tim Bowness may explore morose subjects like murder and divorce on his new album, but this collection of “cinematic short stories”, featuring an impressive prog line-up, is certainly not all doom and gloom…

Louder

Who dares clown around with Waiting for Godot?

Letters: Sarah-Jane Watkinson, Brendan Mulcahy and Jude Emmet reply to a letter that called for adding circus stunts to Samuel Beckett’s play

The Guardian - UK

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece

There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality

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TV tonight: Dynamo escapes being buried alive during a live broadcast

Before he gets boxed in, the magician talks to Chris Martin, Tony Hawk and other celebrities about mental health. Plus, vets help pets give birth. Here’s what to watch tonight

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to Adaptation: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Harrison Ford returns for a final crack of the whip, and Spike Jonze’s classic meta comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep

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Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot

Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September

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Lydia Davis' amusing, insightful stories address the estrangements of everyday life – and resist the hollowing of language

Lydia Davis is known for her minimalist fiction – “economy, precision and originality” is how the author Ali Smith once described her style. Her shortest story, Index Entry, amounts to just four words:

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Tony Rohr obituary

Actor known for screen roles in The Long Good Friday and Harry’s Game, and as a stalwart of the Joint Stock Theatre Group

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Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne

Byrne is a good fit as the conflicted writer, but James Marsh’s crisp biographical film feels at odds with the passion of Beckett’s work

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Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature

The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman

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Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment

Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance

The Conversation

Gabrielle Carey's affectionate life of James Joyce is a story of contingency, vulnerability and sadness

Gabrielle Carey cast a distinctive shadow within Australian writing, one you miss acutely only when it is no longer bodily present, even as elements of her essence remain as words on the page.

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Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’

In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize

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Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving 'voice to the unsayable'

Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

France 24

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

His name had long been on the list of potential Nobel laureates. This Thursday, the Swedish Academy named Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1959 on Norway's western coast, the 64-year-old's vast body of work includes plays, novels, poetry,…

The Independent UK

Sir Michael Gambon remembered as the ‘loveliest of legends’

The Dublin-born star of the stage and screen, who won four TV Baftas, died peacefully in hospital aged 82.

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