Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
- 11/23/2013
- by Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Susie Orbach
- The Guardian - Film News
Morning Brew - Fri. Feb. 15: Gossip's new video, a documentary about South Africa's drag king troupe
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Good morning! I hope you had a great Valentine's Day.
Jeanette Winterson took the holiday as an excuse to propose to her partner using Twitter. No word yet on if Susie Orbach said yes.
Gossip have a fun new video for "Get a Job." I bet Beth Ditto would make a great co-worker.
Over at The Frisky: "I'm a Lesbian Who Loves Channing Tatum." He seems like an Ok guy, if you're into that sort of thing.
Meredith Baxter was on The Talk yesterday with her former Family Ties husband Michael Gross.
Check out this amazing love story from The Devotion Project. Gail Marquis and Audrey Smaltz were both with men until they met and fell in love later in life.
Our Chicks Getting Hitched columnist went and got hitched and then wrote about it for The Huffington Post. Specifically,...
Good morning! I hope you had a great Valentine's Day.
Jeanette Winterson took the holiday as an excuse to propose to her partner using Twitter. No word yet on if Susie Orbach said yes.
Gossip have a fun new video for "Get a Job." I bet Beth Ditto would make a great co-worker.
Over at The Frisky: "I'm a Lesbian Who Loves Channing Tatum." He seems like an Ok guy, if you're into that sort of thing.
Meredith Baxter was on The Talk yesterday with her former Family Ties husband Michael Gross.
Check out this amazing love story from The Devotion Project. Gail Marquis and Audrey Smaltz were both with men until they met and fell in love later in life.
Our Chicks Getting Hitched columnist went and got hitched and then wrote about it for The Huffington Post. Specifically,...
- 2/15/2013
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
From an Austen anniversary to a Sundance full of female talent, the new year is already packed with highlights. What are you looking forward to this year?
No one expects 2013 to be easy, but we'll take our kicks where we can, and only a week in, there are already cultural triumphs for women to celebrate. The band Haim, three sisters from California, stormed to the top of the BBC's Sound of 2013 list, and for the first time all five categories of the Costa prize were won by women. The frontrunner to take the overall prize on 29 January is Hilary Mantel, with her novel Bring Up the Bodies, but Mary and Bryan Talbot's graphic memoir, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, has also been highly lauded.
There are plenty of other books to look forward to, including Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, February), Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld, (Doubleday, June), a...
No one expects 2013 to be easy, but we'll take our kicks where we can, and only a week in, there are already cultural triumphs for women to celebrate. The band Haim, three sisters from California, stormed to the top of the BBC's Sound of 2013 list, and for the first time all five categories of the Costa prize were won by women. The frontrunner to take the overall prize on 29 January is Hilary Mantel, with her novel Bring Up the Bodies, but Mary and Bryan Talbot's graphic memoir, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, has also been highly lauded.
There are plenty of other books to look forward to, including Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, February), Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld, (Doubleday, June), a...
- 1/8/2013
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
Susie Orbach's sober documentary about the sexual abuse of children was horrifying but timely
Analysing the Child Sex Offender (Radio 4) | iPlayer
Mark Steel's in Town (Radio 4) | iPlayer
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Lifecycle (5Live) | iPlayer
Ok, it's not very festive, I admit, but it is topical… On Tuesday morning, Radio 4 took a sober look at paedophilia in the UK in Analysing the Sex Offender. Susie Orbach, an intelligent and engaging presenter as well as an impressive psychoanalyst in her own right, talked to experts and… well, just experts. What she discovered was interesting, if utterly appalling. Here are some stats to ruin your cornflakes. Around 10% of children are sexually abused, with girls around twice as likely as boys to be victims. Predatory paedophiles such as Jimmy Savile are rare compared with the offender who abuses one or two children, within the bounds of his family or friends,...
Analysing the Child Sex Offender (Radio 4) | iPlayer
Mark Steel's in Town (Radio 4) | iPlayer
The Classic FM Interview (Classic FM) | Listen
Lifecycle (5Live) | iPlayer
Ok, it's not very festive, I admit, but it is topical… On Tuesday morning, Radio 4 took a sober look at paedophilia in the UK in Analysing the Sex Offender. Susie Orbach, an intelligent and engaging presenter as well as an impressive psychoanalyst in her own right, talked to experts and… well, just experts. What she discovered was interesting, if utterly appalling. Here are some stats to ruin your cornflakes. Around 10% of children are sexually abused, with girls around twice as likely as boys to be victims. Predatory paedophiles such as Jimmy Savile are rare compared with the offender who abuses one or two children, within the bounds of his family or friends,...
- 12/16/2012
- by Miranda Sawyer
- The Guardian - Film News
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