Forever contemporary Cruella leaves Mary Poppins in ‘olden times’
Both films were originally made about 50 years after the period they recreate – and raise a curious question about the past in culture
If the film's great, who cares if it's faithful to the book?
When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming
Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too
BBC’s The Pursuit of Love features a histrionic Andrew Scott and ladlefuls of whimsy
English ‘chumocracy’: Boozy weekends and class disdain with the Camerons
London Letter: David Cameron has been embarrassed by a book about his inner circle
Red Joan: Judi Dench should have defected from half-baked spy drama
Review: To make something so boring of the fascinating true-life story of Soviet spy Melita Norwood takes a certain quality
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Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Saoirse Ronan, how could you? I almost fell off the couch
Donald Clarke: Few noticed her ‘Chesil Beach’ faux pas. Which is good. Isn’t it?
Meet the bright young things of Irish writing
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
Britain’s Brexiteers surprise us with their realism
UK Politics: Leavers have been on what a Californian life coach might call a ‘journey’
Dan Mulhall: the ambassador who defied categorisation
London Letter: Praise as Mulhall moves from Brexit Britain to Trump’s America
Philip Hensher: ‘Don’t aspire to be an author. Just aspire to write a particular book’
‘I’ve read Proust four times and every time it felt like a major punctuation mark in my life’
Zoe Saldana: ‘I loved Star Trek. I didn’t learn until later that it was unorthodox for women to be obsessed with science fiction
She’s become sci-fi's It Girl, casting an interested eye on Spock in Star Trek, motion-capturing the Avatar franchise, and starring as a kick-ass galactic outlaw in Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a natural progression for someone raised on classic space opera in a house full of women
Word for Word: Deadpan, charming and funny
It can be marvellous to read other people’s letters, as ‘Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life’ illustrates perfectly
Orpen’s ‘Portrait of Lady Idina Wallace’ sells for €1.1 million
Painting bought by an unnmaed private bidder in the United States
Orpen portrait of Lady Idina Wallace goes under hammer
Painting will go under the hammer with a guide price of £800,000-£1.2 million
Portrait of “woman who scandalised a generation”
Orpen’s 1915 painting of Lady Idina Wallace to be auctioned in London
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