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‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in EnglishJames Norton is to take on his first major Shakespearean stage role and play Hamlet in the West End next year.The King & Conqueror star said it was a “privileg

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Queenie Is Working On It by Candice Carty-Williams review – a smart sequel to a breakout b

Queenie’s ticking biological clock drives her chaotic misadventures in this sage and funny follow-upA gynaecological examination is a good analogy for the kind of painful self-inspection at which Queenie Jenkins excels. The heroine of Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 debut Queenie m

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Seasonal Quartet: Ali Smith and New European Ensemble review – words and music connect

Spitalfields festival, LondonNew pieces written in response to the novelist’s works by Kate Moore, Alice Yeung, Seung-Won Oh and Sara Zamboni made for ravishing harmonies and interplay in an unusual concertWhy write words about music, Hans Keller once asked, when you could just w

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Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80

The revered writer and political exile’s publisher says her ‘legacy in literary history can’t be compared to anyone else’s’Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose subversive works of feminist fiction saw her repeatedly imprisoned, has died aged 80.A pioneer of wom

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Tradwives and ‘anti-woke’ backlash: can Netflix reboot Little House on The Prairie for a n

After the classic series became a pandemic-era smash, a glossy new adaptation aims to explore the complexities of frontier lifeEach incarnation of Little House on the Prairie has reflected the fears, hopes and hangups of its time – from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographica

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‘Stop telling people it’s weird’: Andrew Upton on his strange new novel, and having Cate B

An allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm, the Australian playwright’s debut novel about a disfigured chicken is a fantastical fable that’s both funny and ‘a bit bleak’Andrew Upton is full of half-finished stories and plays. Usually they just sort of evaporate, he says. “I look ba

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‘People treat each other as disposable’: dating columnist turned novelist Annie Lord on lo

Her breakup memoir and Vogue column made her the voice of modern dating. As her debut is published, she talks about single life, oversharing and why she still believes she’ll find loveThere is a scene in Annie Lord’s novel that will be instantly familiar to any young person who h

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‘A gasp-inducing thrill ride’: why The Polygamist should be your next TV obsession

With its lovable playboy and jaw-dropping twists, the South African drama has become Netflix’s latest breakout smashAre you bored with your summertime entertainment already? Did you devour that buzzy novel at the beach? Finish your third Suits rewatch on the plane? Has your algor

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Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered

Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’Nine of the 10 bestselling fiction paperbacks in the UK this week have one thing in common: a woman is murdered.The novels, which appear on this week’s Sunday Times bestseller list, include The

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Como Benedito Ruy Barbosa revoluciou a novela rural e levou até o MST para a hora do janta

Autor de clássicos como 'Pantanal' e 'Renascer', o novelista tinha 95 anos e estava internado em São Paulo, com insuficiência renal.

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Fit with just five minutes’ exercise a day? I don’t believe it | Devi Sridhar

Everyone these days wants to optimise their workouts, but when a study seems too good to be true, it usually isProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghWe live in an increasingly polarised world – and I’m not talking about politics, I’m tal

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Nigel Cabourn obituary

Influential designer of men’s clothes who was inspired by workwear, military kit and expeditionary gear“I’m like a big giant sieve of history and I just turn it into the clothes,” said Nigel Cabourn of the inspiration for his decades of quietly influential designs for men’s cloth

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