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Michelle de Kretser writes back to the ‘Woolfmother’ in Theory & Practice

The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel Theory & Practice is younger than I was when she realises something we all do, eventually: sometimes there can be a great chasm between what we say, write, and purport to know and believe, and what we do.

The Conversation

Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – picking up the pieces

The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance

The Guardian - UK

Vanessa Bell review – sidelined Bloomsbury figure reveals main character energy

Usually relegated to the roles of hostess, lover or muse, the painter’s independent spirit shines through in the power of the patterns and colours in this, the largest solo show ever devoted to her work

The Guardian - UK

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Karl Ove Knausgård: ‘The book that changed me as a teenager? The History of Bestiality’

The Norwegian author on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges

The Guardian - UK

Being dangerously thin is back in. Is the body-positivity era officially over?

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons put their Botoxed heads together and decreed this the ‘ballet body’ era

The Guardian - US

Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith found a clarity on stage that in some ways surpassed her screen work

Her stage work in the 1970s in Canada gave her a chance to reinvent herself and reach wonderful levels of performance

The Guardian - UK

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Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout: ‘I would never ask someone to read my books!’

The Pulitzer winner on rereading Virginia Woolf, falling out of love with John Cheever, and the Pushkin story that made her cry

The Guardian - UK

Fendi marks 100th year with 1920s-inspired Milan fashion week show

Art deco detailing, baguette handbags and era-defining ensembles pepper collection by artistic director Kim Jones

The Guardian - UK

Almost a century after Virginia Woolf’s 'A Room of One’s Own' essay, women are driving the housing market

Woolf would be pleasantly surprised that today, women having a whole house of their own is not only commonplace but a key driver of the housing market.

Fortune

Last surviver of the Bloomsbury Group? Meet David ‘Bunny’ Garnett, 1972

A memorable overnight stay in the writer’s cobwebby French farmhouse

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for owners: former Chelsea home of Samuel Beckett for sale for £5.5m

48 Paultons Square has been home to two Nobel Prize winners: dramatist Samuel Beckett, who lived there in 1934, and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969

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Helen Garner, Virginia Woolf and Max Porter headline Belvoir St theatre’s 2025 program

‘Electrifying’ Judy Davis will star in adaptation of The Spare Room, with Colin Friels as King Lear later in the season

The Independent UK

There's no X in Brazil. Celebrity fandom worldwide is in disarray

It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time

Evening Standard

Kensington apartment in Virginia Woolf's childhood home goes on the market for £2.45 million

22 Hyde Park Gate was the birthplace of one of the greatest 20th-century writers, but it hides a dark past

The Guardian - UK

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel

A young queer activist looks back on how a complex life unspooled into a final, fatal act in the award-winning poet’s ambitious, unflinching tale

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‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism

The Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soul

The Guardian - UK

A Netflix film, statue and a newly discovered first edition: joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn

As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake

The Independent UK

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’: 15 of the most iconic book covers

From ‘The Great Gatsby’ to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, Finn Cliff Hodges looks at the best covers out there

Wallpaper

Paul Preciado on his Orlando film: 'There is no trans question'

Paul Preciado interprets Virginia Woolf’s work in 'Orlando, My Political Biography'

The Guardian - UK

Orlando, My Political Biography review – inventive spin on Virginia Woolf’s novel

Trans director Paul B Preciado uses Woolf’s classic text as a literary exploration and an intimate personal journey to powerful effect

The Guardian - UK

‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on reinventing Orlando

He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, and his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary

The Guardian - UK

Orlando, My Political Biography review – Woolf’s trans hero gets a 21st-century mashup

Tricksy documentary spin on 1928 novel weaves fact and fiction to reconsider and reimagine the time-travelling story for our time

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