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Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’

The American author on the wonder of Little Women, re-evaluating Lolita and her belated discovery of Thoreau

The Guardian - UK

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review: tightly-plotted excellence

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

Evening Standard

Ben Okri: ‘Is A Tale of Two Cities the greatest English novel? Meet me in a pub to discuss’

The poet and novelist on having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for Plato

The Guardian - UK

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Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life

A bracing conteporary account of the philosopher’s age-old prescription for living

The Guardian - UK

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse review: exciting, audacious and infuriating

3/5 Based on 70 pages of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this is maddening and brilliant in equal measure

Evening Standard

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, review: Larger-than-life Tolstoy rock opera gets intimate

4/5 After a decade of anticipation, the much talked-about musical arrives in London

The Independent UK

"There wasn't too much talking about who should play what, it was a very instinctive kind of relationship": Mick Taylor on life in the Rolling Stones, Altamont and leaving the band

The Rolling Stones’ secret weapon throughout their golden period looks back on his time with the band

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How do I live my best life? I’ll consult a painting, thanks – not my smug ‘AI future self’

Really, what can these chatbots developed by researchers at MIT teach us that Tolstoy or Lucian Freud can’t? asks comedian and author Viv Groskop

The Guardian - UK

Sigrid Nunez: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be Dr Seuss’

The American author on the greatness of Tolstoy, the joy of Jamaica Kincaid and her insatiable appetite for fairytales

The Guardian - UK

‘Spirits dancing in private rapture’: the best descriptions of joy in literature

The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of happiness this month, from Austen’s Persuasion to a 21st-century sonnet

The Guardian - UK

Trump 2026 trial date in election case should be rejected, prosecutors argue

Special counsel prosecutors urged the US district court judge Tanya Chutkan to ignore Trump’s ‘skewed’ statistics

The Guardian - US

Michael Bakewell obituary

Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

The Guardian - UK

We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but we’re not at war with Russian culture

Elizabeth Gilbert was wrong to stop her novel being published on account of its setting

The Guardian - UK

'Old Vic's Anna Karenina is a delectable on-stage spectacular'

Performance is on at the Old Vic until the end of the month

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The Guardian - UK

Kamila Shamsie: ‘There’s nothing more comforting than Seinfeld scripts’

The novelist on the dangerous allure of Gone With the Wind, taking comfort in comedy and discovering George Eliot’s Middlemarch

The Week

Anna Karenina review: ‘fluid and febrile’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic novel

This entertaining co-production of “Anna Karenina”, which transfers from Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre to Bristol Old Vic next month, “began as a dare”, said Fergus Morgan in The Stage. The British-Russian director Polina Kalinina was complaining to the Scottish writer Lesley Hart that Russian literary texts typically “suffered from staidness…

The National (Scotland)

Despite moments of great psychological and erotic urgency, this production sags

TOLSTOY’S classic novel Anna Karenina is no stranger to the world’s stages.

Salon

For elephants, "family is everything"

Salon spoke with Dr Paula Kahumbu, star of Disney+'s "Secrets of the Elephants," about her close encounters

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Harry and Meghan learn the hard way that grace and favour means just that

Marie Antoinette had the “Petit Trianon” at Versailles as her go-to escape, Tolstoy had Yasnaya Polyana in the Russian countryside and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had the 10-bedroom Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor Estate. At least they did have it. The couple, who fled the courtly environment for…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Harry and Meghan have been taught a harsh lesson about grace-and-favour Frogmore Cottage

Marie Antoinette had the “Petit Trianon” at Versailles as her go-to escape, Tolstoy had Yasnaya Polyana in the Russian countryside and the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes had the ten-bedroom rustic haven of Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate. At least they did have it. The couple, who fled the…

Chicago Sun-Times

Dancing into a minefield

New Joffrey ‘Anna Karenina’ leaps into a world at war.

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Stedall obituary

Documentary-maker who covered politics, historical figures and great railway journeys in his nearly three decades at the BBC

The Guardian - UK

‘It felt important to keep going’: grief hands London fashion week a dilemma

Whether to pay homage to the Queen amid the party dresses has divided participants

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Cyrano' an intertwined love story both on screen, behind camera

Director Joe Wright has tackled many of the great literary love stories on screen, the ones that we return to again and again for their beauty and their pain, from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” to Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” His latest romantic literary screen adaptation is “Cyrano,” another tale of…

The Independent UK

Anna Karenina review: Tolstoy’s heroine is brought to magnetic, maddening life by Adelle Leonce

Anthony Lau delivers a stylish production at the Sheffield Crucible, set in a glittering, heightened contemporary world of neon outfits and disco balls. Yet while the first half flies by, something goes awry after the interval

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