Claire Foy: Wolf Hall's perfectly complex Anne Boleyn
Posted on March 18, 2024
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Wolf HallWas King Henry VIII’s second wife a sly mistress, ambitious hussy or doomed pawn in Tudor power games? Claire Foy’s magnetic portrayal in Wolf Hall left viewers thinking all of these things
For all the praise heaped upon Mark Rylance’s deserving shoulders for his beautifully subdued performance in Wolf Hall, less has been said about Claire Foy, the poised and emotionally complex Anne Boleyn he finally had executed in last night’s superb conclusion.
[Read More]Country diary: To Ukrainians, the storks return is a glimmer of hope
Posted on March 18, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Country diaryUkraineLviv, Ukraine: Forty of them are gliding above my head – our national bird, back for a spring that is like no other
My name is Oleksandr Ruchko and I am a birdwatcher. Because I am 59 years old, I still have another few months when I can be called into action by the military recruitment office, to fight in the war with Russia. Lately I have been providing birdwatching tours around the parks in Lviv, my home.
[Read More]Lift the lid, and theres a well of rage: why women are mad as hell (and not afraid to show
Posted on March 18, 2024
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‘It’s a total release.’ Photograph: Martina Lang/The Guardian. Hair and makeup: Neusa Neves at Arlington Artists. Model: Rebecca P at Nevs ModelsOnce upon a time, women showing their anger was frowned upon. But the gender anger gap is widening, and women’s wrath is on the rise, about everything from police brutality to domestic inequality
by Gaby HinsliffThere is a jar of severed heads sitting on the windowsill of Gemma Whiddett’s waiting room.
[Read More]Lyon tell English clubs to offer 17m for Malouda | Soccer
Posted on March 18, 2024
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Soccer This article is more than 16 years oldLyon tell English clubs to offer £17m for MaloudaThis article is more than 16 years oldLyon's chairman, Jean-Michel Aulas, yesterday called on Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool to formalise their interest in Florent Malouda. "I'm waiting on a call from an English club so we can sort out a meeting," Aulas said. "The transfer could move forward if there is an offer that comes close to the price I've fixed.
[Read More]Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over 'classic family' remarks | Italy
Posted on March 18, 2024
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Italy This article is more than 10 years oldPasta firm Barilla boycotted over 'classic family' remarksThis article is more than 10 years oldChairman Guido Barilla causes outrage in Italy after saying he would not consider using a gay family to advertise his productsGay rights activists in Italy have launched a boycott of the world's leading pasta maker after its chairman said he would only portray the "classic family" in his advertisements and, if people objected to that, they should feel free to eat a different kind of pasta.
[Read More]The Kid by Sapphire review
Posted on March 18, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
The ObserverFictionReviewThe story of the brutalisation of a young boy is as bold and powerful as its prequel, PushThe Kid is the sequel to Sapphire's 1996 novel Push, about a girl called Precious who is routinely sexually abused by both her mother and father. When that novel was turned into the Oscar-winning film Precious in 2009, some critics complained that it represented black people too negatively. The idea that black writers and film-makers should censor themselves on these grounds is, of course, absurd.
[Read More]A car hit me, drove off and left me annihilated. Here is how I put myself back together | Life a
Posted on March 17, 2024
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Adam Johnson at his home in Brighton. Photograph: Peter Flude/The GuardianWhen a car hit Adam Johnson at 55mph, he was left with broken legs, nose, teeth and spirit, and was put into a coma in hospital. His slow recovery was helped by one of the few things he still had – his creativity
by Elle Hunt‘It was all planned out,” says Adam Johnson. “I knew exactly what I was going to do.
[Read More]A life in quotes: Ursula K Le Guin
Posted on March 17, 2024
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Ursula K Le GuinThe award-winning fantasy and science fiction author on politics, death, writing and gender News report: Ursula K Le Guin dies at 88
Ursula K Le Guin, award-winning fantasy and science fiction author and pioneer of feminist speculative fiction, has died age 88. Her extensive catalogue of published works includes novels, essays, poetry and children’s books.
Here are some of her most memorable quotes.
On mortality: You will die.
[Read More]Andrew Gawthorpe | The Guardian
Posted on March 17, 2024
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For the US right, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary – unconstrained by an independent media, democratic institutions or racial diversity – isn’t a cautionary tale, but an aspiration
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Ghosts by Dolly Alderton review a sharp-eyed debut
Posted on March 17, 2024
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FictionReviewComfortable tropes are mixed with darker themes in a zeitgeisty comic novel about thirtysomething life
Quick-witted Nina Dean, the heroine of journalist Dolly Alderton’s debut novel, is a likable food writer who lives in north London. The challenges she faces as a privileged single thirtysomething may, at first glance, seem like familiar terrain for a millennial novel to explore. Nina wrestles with generational conflict with her parents; the difficulties of maintaining friendships when husbands and babies arrive; and the quiet thrum of the biological clock alongside the vagaries of online dating and, more broadly, of a life increasingly played out online.
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