From the hush of medieval lullabies to striking poems about Grenfell, great authors know how to deploy the power of silence
On a snowy Sunday morning in February 1808, the poet William Wordsworth was …
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King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington ○
The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems
I have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. …
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Xiaolu Guo: ‘Write less, in order to write stronger’ ○
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The author and film-maker on why she was inspired to reimagine Moby-Dick in her new novel, her love of Coleridge and returning to the ‘addictive power of fiction’
Xiaolu Guo, 52, was born in China and…
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