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On the eve of her UK retrospective Revelations, the veteran US feminist artist known for her large collaborative art installation pieces such as The Dinner Party – and for dividing the critics – is in celebratory moodOn-screen interviews can be a bit low-key, the victim of time lags and muffled human connections. But not the one on which I’ve just embarked,...
Exclusive: Chronicles of Narnia author detested HC Wyld so intensely he wrote mocking verse in a copy of his own bookCS Lewis loathed one of his fellow Oxford academics so much that he satirised him in a series of seven previously unpublished poems that have been discovered.The Chronicles of Narnia author simply could not stand HC Wyld, deriding his...
Stone Nest, London Jill Johnson’s intricate new piece puts the audience in the midst of an exploration of interaction and connectionThere’s something magical about watching dance at a distance when everything seems effortless. But arguably it’s more interesting to experience dance up close, to see the beads of sweat, feel the endurance and the heat...
Assisted dying is shockingly unpacked by Liz Carr; Nicola Coughlan moves centre stage in Netflix’s Regency romp; Skins meets Euphoria in a Liverpool psychodrama. Plus, the trouble with a ‘mostly true’ Black Panthers dramaBetter Off Dead? (BBC One) | iPlayer Bridgerton (Netflix) The Gathering (Channel 4) | channel4.com The Big Cigar (Apple TV+)Every...
The actor on playing a pushy mother in new Channel 4 drama The Gathering, keeping her Bafta well away from the loo and why she’s an indie girl nowActor Vinette Robinson, 42, is best known for playing chef Carly in the Boiling Point film and TV series, and civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks in Doctor Who. After growing up in Bradford and training at...
This insightful memoir addresses the author and his parents’ struggles with mental illness, and offers a historical account of treatmentsThe year 2008 “should have been a good time in my life”, the novelist Tom Lee reveals in this memoir. He was a new father, homeowner, and his first book was imminent. Instead, he was in emotional freefall because of...