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The woman born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol is honoured in her home city with a powerful show that captures her packed life, dramatic work – and even her faded curtains

1950s Melbourne hosted an exciting bohemian scene, one that championed unconventional thinking. Within that community there was a general disregard for social norms and traditions. This artistic counterculture, full of intellectual freethinkers and early feminists, was particular to Melbourne, and can be seen in the various places where artistic and…

The former PM’s aides josh that it was good for his morale, and ours. Never mind his wife

When Andrea Dworkin’s Intercourse hit the bookshops in 1987, it was extolled by Germaine Greer as the “most shocking book any feminist has yet written”.

It’s little wonder that No 10’s misogyny had fatal consequences for the female population

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle.

The author of ‘Money’ and ‘The Rachel Papers’ once said that posterity was ‘no bloody use to me’, but his incisive novels and essays remain some of the most influential of his generation, writes Martin Chilton

Author of ‘London Fields’ and ‘The Information’, who divided opinion over his writing style and personal views, died of oesophageal cancer at his home in Florida

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