Woolf, Virginia

‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Takes a Collective Approach to Joy

The filmmaker Paul B. Preciado shares the title role with 20 trans and nonbinary performers to make a point about the cage of identity.

By Manohla Dargis

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Why Fashion Can’t Get Enough of the Bloomsbury Group

The circle of artists, writers and intellectuals, which formed in the first half of the 20th century, continues to captivate designers.

By Kin Woo

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Costuming ‘The Hours’ at the Met: Vintage Wallpaper and ’90s Calvin Klein

While creating the costumes for a new opera adaptation of “The Hours,” a designer found inspiration in archival wallpaper, an English farmhouse and 1990s Calvin Klein.

By Louis Lucero II

Books and Literature British Library Chaucer, Geoffrey Evans, Diana (1971- ) Girl, Woman, Other (Book) Grenfell Tower (London, England) Grenfell Tower Fire (June, 2017) literaryguides London (England) Mrs Dalloway (Book) Ordinary People (Book) Poetry and Poets Robinson, Roger (1940-2018) Rubenhold, Hallie Shuggie Bain (Book) Stuart, Douglas (Author) The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Book) Westminster Abbey (London) Woolf, Virginia Writing and Writers

Books About London That Take You Through the City

Bernardine Evaristo, whose “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize, invites readers into London, a city whose rich literary landscape is “for everyone, not just the privileged few.”

By Bernardine Evaristo

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