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Mark Hussey: Mrs Dalloway - Biography of a Novel review - echoes across crises
On the centenary of the work's publication an insightful book shows its prescience Writing in her diary just over 100 years ago on 19th June 1923, Virginia Woolf wrote: “In this book I have almost too...
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Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark review - the...
★★★★★ FRANCES WILSON: ELECTRIC SPARK - THE ENIGMA OF MURIEL SPARK Frances Wilson employs her full artistic power to keep pace with Spark’s fantastic and fugitive lifeFrances Wilson employs her full...
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Ian Leslie: John and Paul - A Love Story in Songs review - help!
Ian Leslie loses himself in amateur psychology, and fatally misreads The BeatlesDo we need any more Beatles books? The answer is: that’s the wrong question. What we need is more Beatles books that are...
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Patrick McGilligan: Woody Allen - A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham review -...
Fair-minded Woody Allen biography covers all basesPatrick McGilligan’s biography of Woody Allen weighs in at an eye-popping 800 pages, yet he waits only for the fourth paragraph of his introduction...
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Jessica Duchen: Myra Hess - National Treasure review - well-told life of a...
★★★★ JESSICA DUCHEN: MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE On a pioneering musicianBiography of the groundbreaking British pianist who was a hero of the BlitzMyra Hess was one of the most important figures in...
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Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, Whitechapel Gallery review - absence made...
★★★ DONALD RODNEY, WHITECHAPEL GALLERY Absence made powerfully present Illness as a drive to creativityDonald Rodney’s most moving work is a photograph titled In the House of My Father, 1997 (main...
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Maria review - Pablo Larraín's haunting portrait of an opera legend
Angelina Jolie puts body and soul into her portrayal of Maria CallasAs Bono once commented about Luciano Pavarotti, “the opera follows him off stage”. Legendary soprano Maria Callas would have known...
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Best of 2024: Books
BEST OF 2024: BOOKS Billie Holiday sings again, Olivia Laing tends to her gardenAs 2024 comes to an end, we look back at the books that have thrilled and enthralled usBillie Holiday sings again, Olivia...
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William J. Mann: Bogie & Bacall review - beyond the screen
★★★★ WILLIAM J. MANN: BOGIE & BACALL Why we're still in love with their legendary Hollywood romanceWhy we're still in love with Bogart and Bacall, and their legendary Hollywood romanceWhat is it...
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How To Survive Your Mother, King's Head Theatre review - mummy issues drive...
★★★ HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR MOTHER, KING'S HEAD THEATRE Jonathan Maitland writes of his mother, but should we laugh or cry?Lots of heartache, but a strange void where the heart of the play should beIt is...
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Vanessa Bell, MK Gallery review - diving into and out of abstraction
★★★★ VANESSA BELL, MK GALLERY The Bloomsbury artist breaks free from Victorian mores A variation of styles as the Bloomsbury artist breaks free from Victorian moresThe Bloomsbury group’s habit of...
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Blu-ray: Crumb
Terry Zwigoff's landmark, cracked family portrait of misanthropic comix genius R CrumbRobert Crumb puts America’s racist, misogynist Id on paper with self-implicating obsession. Terry Zwigoff’s 1995...
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Paul Alexander: Bitter Crop - The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's...
Busting myths in this sensitive appraisal of a jazz legendIt’s often said that nobody mythologised Billie Holiday like Billie Holiday. I’m not so sure.
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Extract: Pariah Genius by Iain Sinclair
A form-defying writer explores the troubled mindscape of a Soho photographer Iain Sinclair is a writer, film-maker, and psychogeographer extraordinaire. He began his career in the poetic avant-garde of...
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Blu-ray/DVD: Priscilla
The disc extras smartly contextualise Sofia Coppola's eighth featureThere’s a scene in Priscilla where Elvis stands above his wife, who is scrambling to put her clothes in a suitcase. Priscilla has...
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Spencer Jones: Making Friends, Soho Theatre review - award-winning comedian...
★★★ SPENCER JONES: MAKING FRIENDS, SOHO THEATRE Quirky, personal and absurdIf big chickens scare you, this is your thing!Lockdown feels more like a dream now: empty streets; bright, scarless skies;...
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MJ the Musical, Prince Edward Theatre review - glitzy jukebox musical with a...
★★★ MJ THE MUSICAL, PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE It's a great song and dance evening, but the story is an empty oneIt's a great song and dance evening, but the story is an empty one In a secret chamber...
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DVD/Blu-ray: Padre Pio
Shia LaBeouf stars in Abel Ferrara's latest grungy spiritual quest, earthed by landscape and politicsFaith and damnation frequently collide in Abel Ferrara’s films, drawing fiery performances from...
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Richard Schoch: Shakespeare's House review - nothing ill in such a temple
Scholar makes the Bard's house a home in his history of dramatic domesticityRichard Schoch, in the subtitle of his new book on Shakespeare’s House, promises something big: “a window onto his life and...
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Adam Sisman: The Secret Life of John le Carré review - tinker, tailor,...
Catalogue of the author’s infidelities doesn’t quite feel justifiedThis book is quite a sad read. I had been looking forward to it, as a posthumous supplement to Adam Sisman’s 2015 biography of John le...
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