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In Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst takes an elegiac look at class, sexuality and race in post-Brexit Britain

Late in Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel Our Evenings, the narrator David Win, gracefully ageing doyen of the British stage, experiences one of those moments when the world is revealed to be other than he thought it was.

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London Standard’s AI imitation of Brian Sewell proves art critics cannot be easily replaced

Nonsensical article lacks Sewell’s authentic voice and is hateful way for paper to remember one of its best writers

The Guardian - UK

Hedi Slimane takes Celine to Norfolk for ‘Anglomania’ menswear collection: watch the film

Inspired by Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Bright Young Things’, Hedi Slimane’s latest Celine menswear collection is captured by the designer in a romantic short film set at the Palladian Holkham Hall on England’s Norfolk coastline

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Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI – stop indexing content

The search engine’s response to the rise of ChatGPT and its ilk is to take an extremely selective approach to what it considers worthy of attention

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Irvine Welsh: ‘If reading gives you comfort, you’re not doing it right’

The Scottish author on having his mind changed by Orwell, how Trainspotting was influenced by Ulysses, and his wariness of novels created with AI

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - This is one political proposal the Tories should really steal

There are no secrets between us, dear reader, so I shall not hide from you that last night I passed on the leaders’ appearances on Sky and instead read the letters of Evelyn Waugh and laughed like a drain throughout. I recommend them for this election campaign; they are rude,…

Evening Standard

All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks

Writers who know a thing or two about matters of the heart on the love songs they adore – from Sondheim’s bittersweet portrait of a romance sceptic to Roberta Flack’s timeless expression of hope

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Bad Sex Award in search of a new home

Another publication might take up the mantle

Evening Standard

Saltburn review – hot Brideshead soup needs more seasoning

London film festival: Emerald Fennell’s followup to Promising Young Woman boasts dazzling turns from Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan, but the script could have used another all-nighter in the library

The Guardian - UK

London film festival: privilege and poverty collide in big British cinema showcase

Emerald Fennell’s starry Saltburn opens this year’s festival, with Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debut The Kitchen closing – bookending a banner year for UK cinema

The Guardian - UK

When Elon Musk’s ‘flying sofas’ give Ukraine internet access, we can’t sit comfortably

The Starlink system has been vital to Zelenskiy’s forces, but it can’t be good to have a volatile billionaire playing a crucial role in a major European war

The Guardian - UK

13 Great Hayley Atwell Movies And TV Shows And How To Watch Them

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One star Hayley Atwell has many other great movies and TV shows under her belt.

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‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward

As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’

The Independent UK

‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on

As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’

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‘Eighty-nine perfect minutes’: 30 of the best short films and novels

Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time

Evening Standard

Decline and Fall: Evelyn Waugh’s country mansion sells for £3.16m at auction – despite its tenants obstructing the sale

The property’s current tenants have refused to leave the property or allow estate agents and prospective buyers in.

The Guardian - UK

Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead mansion sold for £3m despite tenants refusing to leave

Cotswold home, currently housing ‘superfans’ who are paying rent of £5 a week, sold to online buyer

The Guardian - UK

Evelyn Waugh’s once-beloved Cotswold mansion up for auction at £2.5m

Grade-II*-listed eight-bedroom, six-bathroom Piers Court is where Waugh wrote many illustrious novels, including Brideshead Revisited

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Ninety years on, what can we learn from reading Evelyn Waugh's troubling satire Black Mischief?

Ninety years ago, in October 1932, the English satirist Evelyn Waugh published his third novel Black Mischief. He’d had a hit two years prior with Vile Bodies, a novel that made famous (even as it mocked) the slang and habits of the aristocratic Bright Young Things and propelled Waugh to…

The Guardian - UK

Letters: we desperately need more hospital beds

Increasing capacity would restore patient confidence, reduce waiting lists and improve staff morale

Evening Standard

Bellamy’s: The Queen’s favourite restaurant, plus nibbles and tipples for the Jubilee

Named after the gentlemen’s club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour books, its doors opened in 2004.

The Conversation

The book that changed me: falling for Eve Babitz's Sex and Rage

In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

The Guardian - UK

The private diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 1973

What would the famously acerbic novelist reveal? By Chris Hall

The Conversation

Partygate Revisited: why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is starting to sound like an Evelyn Waugh novel

When allegations arose some years ago that former prime minister David Cameron had behaved obscenely with a pig’s head during a Bullingdon Club event while at the University of Oxford, he distanced himself from the controversial group, saying:

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