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Friday essay: as the legacy media have dumbed down, The New Yorker has dumbed up

Like many, I entered The New Yorker through the cartoon door. The first cartoon I loved, and remember to this day, featured a New Yorker staple – two guys sitting in a bar – with one saying to the other: “I wish just once someone would say to me, ‘I…

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Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

Dame Maggie Smith: ‘the complete actor’

The former cabaret star, who died on Friday aged 89, dazzled in everything from Shakespeare to Harry Potter

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‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

Ian McKellen plays a theatre reviewer in the 1930s in the new film adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call – but how accurate is it?

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Why Do You Hate Me?; Patient 11; Theory of Everything: Not All Propaganda Is Art – review

Marianna Spring dives into her inbox to investigate cases of online hate; a young autistic woman sectioned for three years tells her shocking story. Plus, Kenneth Tynan and the CIA

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

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‘I was living in a fool’s paradise’: Adrienne Kennedy on meeting the Beatles and losing control of her play

The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre

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Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart

The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages

The Guardian - UK

‘Ruthless ambition and ego’: what it’s like being married to an author

In a meticulously researched new book, the lives of five literary wives are examined and the often abusive relationships they found themselves in

The Guardian - US

Of course theatre critics should speak their mind, but not with cheap shots

One irritating theatre reviewer shouldn’t hide the fact that too many writers pull punches

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