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Saturday, 15 February 2020
The fourteenth century has gone digital: Chaucer is on the app store. Academics at UCL, the University of Saskatchewan, and …
Continue reading "Praise be – Chaucer is on the app store"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 8 February 2020
At the heart of Kiley Reid’s debut novel Such A Fun Age (2020) is a moment you feel like you’ve …
Continue reading "Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid – witty take on class and race in America"
By Francesca Peacock
Saturday, 25 January 2020
Part-way through the trailer for the forthcoming Emma adaptation the filmmakers proclaim: BEHOLD A NEW VISION OF JANE AUSTEN’S GREAT …
Continue reading "Bodice-ripping Jane Austen adaptations obscure her genius"
By Francesca Peacock
Friday, 21 September 2018
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) has returned to London eight years after it first premiered in the White Cube. For …
Continue reading "Deconstructing Time: Christian Marclay’s The Clock at the Tate Modern"
By Francesca Peacock
Friday, 21 September 2018
Anthony and Cleopatra Simon Godwin’s Anthony and Cleopatra starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo started this week. A fated relationship? …
Continue reading "Culture Digest – The Winter’s Tale, magic realism and Star Wars"
By Francesca Peacock
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Is complete denuclearisation about to happen? Relations between North and South Korea do seem to be improving, with South Korean …
Continue reading "Need to know: is the latest Korean summit a serious breakthrough?"
By Francesca Peacock
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Is the Syrian civil war finally over? Yesterday, at talks in Sochi, Putin and Erdogan agreed to set up a …
Continue reading "Need to know: Putin and Erdogan declare Idlib ceasefire"
By Francesca Peacock
Friday, 14 September 2018
Ottessa Moshfegh is adept at creating difficult, even occasionally repulsive characters: the eponymous sailor of her debut novella McGlue struggles, …
Continue reading "9/11, somnophilia and selfies – Moshfegh’s ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’"
By Francesca Peacock
Friday, 14 September 2018
Royal Academy’s Festival of Ideas The RA is hosting a series of thought-provoking talks and lectures, with the last few …
Continue reading "Culture Digest – Othello, podcasts and Crazy Rich Asians"
By Francesca Peacock
