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Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie

Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2023

‘I want to write and I am going to write’: The lost world of Zelda Fitzgerald

Her husband F Scott Fitzgerald called her ‘America’s first flapper’, but Zelda Fitzgerald, who died 75 years ago, was much more than the tragic wife and muse of a famous male writer. Kat Lister explores her literary legacy

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2023

The 15 Greatest Speeches of All Time, by 15 Inspirational Women

We celebrate the greatest speeches of all time, spoken by women who have changed the world for the better

Marie Claire · Mar 7, 2023

Legends and characters in books, TV and film 'you didn't realise were LGBTQ+'

Myths and legends geek Dan Jones' book - Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend - features characters including god Achilles, Wonder Woman, and Barbie's Ken doll

Daily Mirror · Feb 28, 2023

Alessandra Ferri: ‘Dancing with Nureyev​,​ I swear he had an energetic aura around him’

The principal ballerina on portraying Virginia Woolf, why she’s so enthusiastic about ageing, and what she learned from the greats

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2023

‘It was always an artist’s garden’: How Charleston became Vanessa Bell’s muse

In her new book, ‘Why Women Grow’, Alice Vincent explores why women turn to the soil. In this extract, she retraces the steps of artist Vanessa Bell among the apple trees and rose bushes of Charleston in Sussex

The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2023

'After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography.

WEKU · Jan 26, 2023

Can reading help heal us and process our emotions – or is that just a story we tell ourselves?

The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: Psyches Iatreion, translated as “healing place of the soul”.

The Conversation · Jan 22, 2023

2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2022

Review: 'Young Bloomsbury,' by Nino Strachey

NONFICTION: This book about the lesser known junior members of the Bloomsbury Group leaves the reader wanting for more.

Tribune News Service · Dec 21, 2022