‘A delirious deco dream’: former TB sanatorium is now Finland’s most unusual holiday let For a limited period, architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023
The Republican party is at last paying the price of its Faustian pact with Trump The ousting by extremists of House speaker Kevin McCarthy is a sign of the GOP’s willingness to test the limits of US democracy The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023
Venice Film Festival round-up: From Yorgos Lanthimos standout Poor Things to Michael Mann’s operatic Ferrari Festivalgoers will surely agree that the 2023 competition was one of the most eclectic and eccentric in recent memory, writes Geoffrey Macnab The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2023
Winning Time’s John C. Reilly And Hadley Robinson Get Candid About Shooting That Heated Family Monopoly Scene In The Season 2 Premiere Winning Time stars John C. Reilly and Hadley Robinson opened up about filming that tense Monopoly sequence for the Season 2 premiere. Cinemablend · Aug 7, 2023
Immersed in sea, snow, sand and silence: a winter break in Lithuania A 60-mile sandbar dotted with forests and icy lagoons, the Curonian Spit’s buried villages, elk and elemental beauty attracted Sartre and De Beauvoir The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023
Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2023
10 must-read paperbacks this November Paperback Picks is back — now a once-a-month compilation. Here are 10 great books just out in paperback; some of which I've read and enjoyed, and some I can't wait to get to. Happy fall reading! Tribune News Service · Nov 9, 2022
Teacher asks court to restore suit on trans student pronouns The Supreme Court of Virginia has heard arguments in the case of a high school teacher who was fired after he refused to use a transgender student’s pronouns The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2022
The Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump Dana Milbank of the Washington Post does not fall victim to false equivalency. He knows the GOP is a threat to democracy The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2022
Russia's antisemitism aimed at Ukraine's Zelenskyy is just the Kremlin variant of a very old European virus Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that Ukraine was run by Nazis, since Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish. The Conversation · Jun 29, 2022
Top 10 novels about neighbours From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2022
On my radar: Ed Balls’s cultural highlights The author and former Labour MP on steamy hospital dramas, Stanley Tucci’s charisma and his current favourite cookbook The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín wins Rathbones Folio prize for The Magician Fictionalised biography of writer Thomas Mann beats Booker prize-winner Damon Galgut to £30,000 award The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2022
In brief: Cold Enough for Snow; The Magician; God Is Dead – reviews A wistful, Tokyo-set novella, a dramatisation of the life of Thomas Mann and a compelling biography of a doomed Belgian cyclist The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2022
Benzinga · Feb 22, 2022 Fintech on Benzinga: Knowing What's Next Means Leveraging What's Now The Internet credits Thomas Mann with saying “Everything is politics.” Makes sense to me, but funny how distorted the word politics has become. Instead of navigating human affairs, politics now engenders thoughts of division, tension and conflict. So, let’s update this quote for 2022.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2022 Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín join ‘rich and large’ Rathbones Folio prize shortlist Galgut’s Booker winner and Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of Thomas Mann are two of eight titles selected by the judges