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Ordo Virtutum review – BBC Singers sound heavenly in MacMillan premiere

Anchored by drumbeats, the Soul soared skywards in James MacMillan’s timeless choral allegory, exquisitely sung

The Guardian - UK

Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – a reckless daughter’s aromatic youth

In the Yorkshire author’s first memoir, she recounts in tender, sometimes showy prose her difficult relationship with her complex mother and brushes with danger in her thrill-seeking years

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Lewis Carroll collection given to his Oxford college in surprise US donation

Exclusive: Christ Church college taken aback to receive hundreds of the author’s letters, photos and rare items

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Breathing life into death: a filmmaker’s tribute to palliative care

Greek-French director Costa-Gavras's latest film is set in a hospital's palliative care unit. And while death is ever present, Le Dernier Souffle ("The Last Breath") is above all an ode to life – and to the medical professionals who stay alongside their patients until the very end.

Radio France Internationale

The Book of George by Kate Greathead review – an absorbing portrait of millennial malaise

A restless modern male and his long-suffering girlfriend come of age against the historic events of the 21st century in the American writer’s witty second novel

The Guardian - UK

Last chance to enter! The 2025 Observer/ Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism closes soon

The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is open for submissions until 28 February

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In brief: Queen James; The Paris Dancer; Melting Point – review

A stirring account of the queer first king of Britain; a vivid tale of life in second world war France; and an innovative family memoir about Jewish emigration to Texas

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When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: hope within reach in 1970s New York

Mark Cohen’s evocative shot of a child with some bubble gum machines is part of a series capturing the vibrant characters and street life of the Big Apple

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I can't wait for this fantasy series' return on Prime Video, but there's one problem

The Wheel of Time doesn't half move fast

Welcome to the incel age of fiction: misogynistic, murderous and... sympathetic?

THE READING LIST: Once confined to a dark, dusty corner of the internet, incels are becoming increasingly mainstream as harrowing news stories about murder sprees and manifestos shine a light on a disturbing, sometimes violent, movement. These days, it is proving fertile ground for fiction writers whose protagonists are denied…

The Independent UK

Forget Stalin and Trotsky, Animal Farm is a play for our times. Pringles anyone?

George Orwell’s publishers thought his parable was too specific. They needn’t have worried, 80 years on it’s as salient as ever

The Guardian - UK

It’s time to rethink boredom, procrastination and regret

That’s the way to fulfil your goals and have fun in life, writes Simon May

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The first look photographs from Bridgerton season four are going viral

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Trigger warnings may do more harm than good. Witness ‘the abortion play’

Hit drama The Years has seen audience members fainting hysterically. Perhaps if we dispensed with the red flags, people would enjoy this fine play more

Evening Standard

Spy Octane, The Vehicles Of James Bond: new book lifts the bonnet on 007’s cars

Spectacular tome delves deep into the spy’s transportation secrets

The Guardian - UK

The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst review – a terrific queer coming-of-age debut

The delusions and desires of a precocious young boy are closely observed as he approaches his senior school years

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Mary and the Hyenas review – patchy ode to Wollstonecraft and women ‘howling at the world’

Snappy movement and a Billy Nomates score can’t make up for the lack of emotional range in this portrait of the 18th-century writer

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Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it

Letters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex

The Guardian - AU

Geraldine Brooks: ‘I felt like I was faking my life’

The Australian Pulitizer-prize winning author on love, grief and pretending to be normal while feeling anything but

The Guardian - UK

‘It changed my life’: Get Millie Black, the thrilling Caribbean crime drama shaking up TV

Booker prize winner Marlon James is breaking into television with his rave-reviewed cop show. Its creator and star talk wigs, unfinished business – and what it’s really like being queer in Jamaica today

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders by David F Ross

The Guardian - UK

Calum Nicholas: ‘I’m trying to inspire people from all backgrounds to look at F1’

‘It can be quite intimidating being the only black guy,’ the Red Bull mechanic, who is helping open up an overwhelmingly white business, tells Donald McRae

The Guardian - UK

‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops

Lovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day

The Guardian - UK

‘Important and beautiful’ 13th-century Bible returns to Salisbury

Sarum Master Bible to go on display at cathedral after being in private hands for almost 800 years

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