The author on the power of folktales, being inspired by Ulysses – and the book that every woman should read
My earliest reading memory
The summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to…
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Normal review – Fargo meets The Firm in cheerfully weird Bob Odenkirk small-town thriller ⊖
Odenkirk plays a washed-up sheriff whose arrival in an eerily wholesome Minnesota town sets off a chain of violence, corruption and savage Ben Wheatley shootouts
Bob Odenkirk continues his new career …
4 months ago
Too many bro? Broaching the subject of men’s lapel messaging at the Oscars ⊖
All the talk on red carpet night was of leading guys such as Adrien Brody and Leonardo DiCaprio flashing the bling
While the eyes might be the window to the soul, lapels are certainly doing some talki…
9 months ago
My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’ ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feeling
It wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World…
10 months ago
The death of the wallet: how our pockets suddenly got a lot lighter ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A new survey finds less than half of British people now carry a wallet – even though 80% own one
Name: The wallet.
Age: The word originates from the late 14th century, meaning something like knapsack. …
13 months ago
Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson ○
In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today
Ireland’s planning body, An Bord Pleanála, will determine l…
Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made ○
A thoughtful biography sheds new light on the motivation behind Stein’s masterwork, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
When The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas was published in 1933, it made 60-year-…
14 months ago
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration ○
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The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China
The sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Lo…
15 months ago
‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant? ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Its lab buildings have a rusticated air while its sleek, paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming w…
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