The American novelist and screenwriter’s memoir covers sex work, Virginia Woolf and Hollywood success
As an eight-year-old in comfortable, solid, suburban California, Michael Cunningham felt compelled…
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‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist ○
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With an adaptation of Night and Day hitting cinemas, the pioneering author’s work continues to inspire audiences
She’s long been admired by students of English literature, but 85 years after her death…
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Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars ⊕
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Wolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast
Here is an adaptation, wr…
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If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare? ⊕
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Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity
The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who translated William Faulkner, André Gide, F…
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Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria ⊕
Cannes film festival: Commanding performances and a great musical score underpin this seductive drama about regret, memory and young love
Virginia Woolf seems to be having a moment in the movies. Soon…
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Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair ⊕⊕
A dying glamour puss falls for her parasitic houseguest in Joseph Losey’s 1968 fever dream that earns its exclamation mark
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This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – an illuminating window on Emily Brontë’s world ⊕
Vivid, tactile details make Lutz’s biography a beautifully textured and convincing read
Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially onli…
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‘Subtle but powerful form of self-validation’: how to start journaling ⊕⊕
There is no wrong way to journal, say experts, and putting pen to paper can help with mental health and clarify thoughts and feelings
Humans have been jotting down their feelings and experiences for m…
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The Hours won awards for Nicole Kidman’s fake nose – and hearts as a queer classic ⊕⊕
Stephen Daldry’s 2002 film, which secured Kidman an Oscar for her depiction of Virginia Woolf, is a groundbreaking depiction of queer sexuality across the 20th century
Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer p…
‘We are not like the rest of the Andalucía’: the rugged charms of Almería, Spain’s desert city ⊕
While Málaga battles overtourism down the coast, this ‘forgotten’ working port city revels in its outsider status
Perched high on the battlements of Almería’s 10th-century Alcazaba, looking over the m…