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Elkin’s capacious survey of female artists who focused on the body might have worked better as a collection of essays

Kicking off our new monthly series about emotions in literature, Sophie Ratcliffe finds the best literary descriptions of hopefulness

The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing Bee champion. Now in its ninth series, the backstories of this year’s contestants show how sewing often provides an intimate, material connection…

In Nicole Holofcener’s incisive new comedy You Hurt My Feelings, a horrifying scenario leads to uncomfortable questions

Author Claire Dederer started off writing a book about the film director Roman Polanski. Forty-five years ago, Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The award-winning author of Citizen turns her mind to the complexities of balancing art and parenting

The Chinese-British author on leaving her family to find creative freedom, the effect on those she writes about in her revealing new book, and the power of Moby-Dick

Hermione Burton was an amateur painter with immaculate outfits but a turbulent life. Now artist Andy Holden has excavated her rollercoaster story in a film starring Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell