guardian.co.uk Politics:
On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no no (Read More)
The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
Perez Hilton:
We can't believe it! It's been one year since Asslee pushed Bronx Mowgli through her vayjayjay and it's all the family is talking about! Auntie Simpleton took to her Twitter for a celebratory tweet: "Happy Birthday to my prec (Read More)
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Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint julepsThe man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of (Read More)
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Think a paradise break in the Indian Ocean will cost a small fortune? Not on Zanzibar where a clutch of new boutique hotels offers cool style and seriously good valueFragile thing holiday serenity. Zanzibar has the full deck (Read More)
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AbelardAbelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
After the freedom of university and living with her boyfriend, Lucy Tobin is back at her parents' house. But how do you have a grown-up relationship – including a sex life – when Mum and Dad are around? And how do they feel a (Read More)
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The culmination of a triumph of storytellingYour Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewellby Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 560pp, Chatto & Windus, £18.99Part two of Javier Marías's metaphysical epic, (Read More)
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Donatello was the first genius of the Renaissance, but his raw, expressive work also challenges all our assumptions about the period. He is justly the star of the V&A's triumphant new galleriesThe Ricordanze of Giovanni Chell (Read More)
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Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midn (Read More)
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Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
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In the fourth of a series of Q&As with the shortlisted authors, Reif Larsen discusses his novelWhat moved you to write an illustrated account of a child prodigy's adventuresome life?This book, like most creations, grew in fit (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as mu (Read More)
Apartment Therapy Main:
We love lighting up our home for the holidays but are always on the lookout for options that don't remind us of our college dorms where Christmas lights stayed up all year long. Of all the holiday lanterns we've seen this se (Read More)
The Guardian:
Rita Marcalo's plan to induce a seizure on stage challenges people's fears of the condition – and makes for witty artThirty years ago I tried to fundraise for Fall Down and Be Counted, a documentary about living with epilepsy (Read More)