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Sophie Cunningham's pandemic novel admits literature can't save us – but treasures it for trying

“How good are novels!” So thinks protagonist Alice Fox in This Devastating Fever, the third novel from former publisher Sophie Cunningham. Alice is preparing to chair a panel at a writers’ festival, just as Covid-19 hits the headlines in March 2020.

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Sally Potter on making a film about violence with Chris Rock: ‘He is aware of what happens when a man feels humiliated’

In Look at Me, Rock is thrown to the floor by Javier Bardem. Potter discusses male anger in her film and the similarities between that and Rock’s real-life experience of being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars

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'Skin and sinew and breath and longing': reimagining the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf

After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz’s reimagining of the lives of 19th and 20th century women artists, activists and sapphists is a book I’ve always wanted to read. (And it’s just been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.)

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‘Nothing really matters except the courage to be yourself’: Emma Corrin to star in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in the West End

The groundbreaking exploration of gender identity is being adapted by famed playwright Neil Bartlett

The Independent UK

Virginia Woolf’s Richmond townhouse goes on sale for £3.5 million

Bloomsbury Group members Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived in the house between 1915 and 1924.

Evening Standard

A story of two St Ives: ‘It is cursed and confused by its raging beauty’

On 2 July we sent six writers and photographers to capture a typical British summer’s day. Tanya Gold headed to St Ives

The Guardian - UK

Flash of genius: how a Cornish lighthouse inspired Virginia Woolf’s fictional icon

St Ives holiday home that planted the seed for English writer’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse has now earned a historic plaque

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After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz review – in praise of visionary women

A chorus of writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Lina Poletti, tells a bold, original story of creativity and freedom

The Guardian - UK

Why can’t women in the UK afford to buy their own houses? We ask an expert

Sara Reis, of the nonprofit Women’s Budget Group, says there is nowhere in the UK where an average-earning female can afford her own place

The Guardian - UK

Old dogs, funny names and fishy tales – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

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In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

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Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

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Olga Neuwirth: Orlando review – sumptuous staging but music drama lacks Woolf’s wit

Neuwirth’s 2019 opera adapting and updating Virginia Woolf’s story has an outstanding lead in Kate Lindsey although it ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts

The Guardian - UK

Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine review – a tale of two lives

Set over one day in Dublin, this gentle, empathetic debut explores love and loss through the stories of two women

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Orlando review – make a date for Virginia Woolf’s puckish time traveller

Smart, funny adaptation of Woolf’s exploration of multiple selves is pint-sized but faithful, and Taylor McClaine is excellent as the titular lead

Daily Mirror

Half of Brits aged under 30 have no idea who Marilyn Monroe was, study finds

A survey of 2,000 Brits aged 18-30 found the younger generation are in the dark over icons including Marilyn Monroe, Virginia Woolf and Frida Kahlo - but they know everything about reality TV stars

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True writing is a convulsive act: inside the mind of Elena Ferrante

Where does great writing come from? How does the reading of writers shape their work? Perhaps the great writers are true originals, free from influence?

The Guardian - US

‘The movie directed me’: inside the year’s most haunting new film

The writer-director of buzzy new folk horror You Won’t Be Alone talks about dealing with gore, critics and Hollywood

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I’m thrilled we’ll get to read John le Carré’s letters – but what can this dying art reveal?

We like to think private correspondence reveals all, but the truth is a lot more complicated

The Independent UK

Fleming returns to Met in new opera based on 'The Hours'

Renee Fleming is returning to the Metropolitan Opera in a new work whose subject will be familiar to readers and cinephiles

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Creative set: Fendi celebrates the Bloomsbury legacy

The Bloomsbury Set may be better associated with the rolling Downs of the East Sussex countryside than the cobbled streets of Rome, yet as a new book by the Italian fashion house Fendi explores, the trailblazing creatives had intrinsic links with its Eternal City hometown

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