‘A magnetic, brittle veneer’ … Knightley in her Oscar-nominated role in The Imitation Game. Photograph: Cinematic/Alamy 20. The Hole (2001) Knightley’s first big role was in this teen thriller, about ...
03.20.2025 Theguardian.com and 7 sitesEley Williams, Yael van der Wouden and Ferdia Lennon are among the young writers shortlisted for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize . Seán Hewitt, Yasmin Zaher and Rebecca Watson also m...
03.20.2025 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesFor President Trump and many of his closest aides and allies, every day is a great day to beat up on Joe Biden. They treat bashing the previous occupant of the White House as proper political hygiene,...
03.20.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesIn the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls,...
03.20.2025 Arcamax.com and 2 sitesThe Gruffalo author talks about life after losing her husband and collaborator, Malcolm - and her chart-topping niece Lola Young. Julia Donaldson has become an unofficial member of my family. Every day we read about the eavesdropping ladybird, the plucky mouse, the witch, the Superworm or the Teeny Weeny Genie. We’ve wolfed down the dozen film adaptations, been on a Gruffalo trail in an arboretum, and endlessly listen to Stick Man and The Highway Rat . So when I meet the creator of all these sto...
03.15.2025 Nzherald.co.nzSonas offers an exploration of the Wellness industry, Gareth Southgate gives The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Twister: Caught in the Storm tells a terrifying tale, while The Repair Shop gets to work on a...
03.19.2025 Rte.ieThe six-strong list includes Seán Hewitt, who is nominated for his poetry collection Rapture's Road, and Ferdia Lennon, for his debut novel Glorious Exploits. Born in Warrington, to parents from Engla...
03.20.2025 Independent.ie and 3 sitesSign up to the Irish Times books newsletter for features, podcasts and moreIn The Irish Times this Saturday, YA writer and reviewer Claire Hennessy tells Sophie Grenham about her adult fiction debut. ...
03.18.2025 Irishtimes.com and 1 sitesBenefits claim decisions could become more “weird” and “cruel” once Labour’s reforms kick in , former assessors and welfare experts have warned. The current assessment process to decide whether someon...
03.17.2025 Inews.co.uk and 1 sitesMaybe all those years of living in Northbrook while writing about Chicago have made my brain soft. But when constructing Monday’s gathering of Irish poets for St. Patrick's Day, I tucked in Dylan Thomas. Who of course was Welsh. Having been born in W...
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