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Rachel Cooke

The Guardian

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5. Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a masterclass in restraint

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12.11.2024 10

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4. The Day of the Jackal is more lifestyle show than thriller

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11.11.2024 8

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Brahms for the soul on the night the US election results came in

On Wednesday evening, I went to the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank Centre to hear the Icelandic pianist, Víkingur Ólafsson, play...

09.11.2024 10

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4. Undercover: Exposing the Far Right reveals a vile network of pathetic fascists

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24.10.2024 5

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4. The Franchise is a sharp send-up of superhero films

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22.10.2024 10

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The unadulterated pleasures of Rivals

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16.10.2024 10

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Exuberant bums abound on the new Rivals. What a relief

Having seen a preview of the new TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 1988 novel Rivalson 18 October on Disney ), all I can tell you is that it came as a...

12.10.2024 9

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4. Joan is a diamond in the rough

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07.10.2024 9

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Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book

Nervous as I am of organising parties, I could hardly have launched a book about friendship without throwing one. And so it was that last Tuesday...

14.09.2024 7

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Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?

Ah, A-level results week, and how weirdly enjoyable it is when you’re not doing them yourself, have no children of your own in the game, and nieces...

17.08.2024 40

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Freddie Flintoff’s second coming

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15.08.2024 5

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Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour is a hopeful, tear-jerking delight

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13.08.2024 7

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In Sheffield’s new top foodie destination something gnaws at me and it isn’t hunger

In Sheffield to do an interview, I linger in Cambridge Street, open-mouthed at the sight of its newly restored buildings. How astonishing to think...

20.07.2024 6

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Farewell, with regret … Kirsty Wark, Newsnight’s smiling assassin in stripes

In the same week that Britain’s first female chancellor arrived at HM Treasury to a round of applause, Kirsty Wark left the BBC’s Newsnight after...

13.07.2024 7

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Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles

Everyone loves David Nicholls’ marvellously tender and humane new novel, You Are Here, in which two lonely, almost middle-aged strangers embark on a...

29.06.2024 5

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A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world

Tomorrow, it will be 100 years since the writer Franz Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna from tuberculosis – and the good news is that as major...

02.06.2024 90

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Notebook Hardy as old hostas, Chelsea flower show fans lapse into a crazed kind of Britishness

Squelch, squelch, squelch. To the RHS Chelsea flower show with my friend Sophie, where not even the “giant sponge” of a garden designed by Tom...

25.05.2024 30

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Bodkin is a very 21st-century media satire

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13.05.2024 20

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Shirley Conran’s legacy is not only the filthy bits, but sisterhood too

Somewhere at the back of a cupboard in my house is the pair of tiny white lace shorts Shirley Conran gave me when I interviewed her in 2012. I’ve...

11.05.2024 60

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Inside the mind of Kevin Spacey

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08.05.2024 20

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Inside the mind of Kevin Spacey

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08.05.2024 30

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Notebook What joy it is to have a friend with a superpower – getting a table at the hottest restaurants

The land of restaurants is increasingly paradoxical. Every day, good ones close. Running costs are punitive and broke customers are eating at home...

27.04.2024 20

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Notebook I thought selling my car was the right thing to do, but now I wonder why I bothered

When I sold my car, I didn’t expect a pat on the head; I wore my halo on the inside, and that was enough. But I did assume that those who had...

30.03.2024 6

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Royal duty should never include the cruel obligation to bare all about illness

It may be that privacy has always been a relative concept, but in an age when its gradations grow ever crazier, their management left almost entirely...

23.03.2024 4

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Notebook Poems on London’s underground: free riches I hold in high esteem

As worries grow over the cost of culture – barely a week goes by without an actor complaining about theatre ticket prices – one form of art...

02.03.2024 10

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Notebook The miners’ strike changed Britain, but it didn’t feel like it at the time

How strange and unnerving to find that television is now being made about times I can actually remember. This week, Channel 4 will screen the final...

03.02.2024 10

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Why Truelove restored my faith in TV drama

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11.01.2024 10

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Notebook Writers left in a bind by British Library cyber-attack, but it remains a closed book

I’m struck by how little coverage there has been of the crisis at the British Library, still paralysed following an attack last October by a...

06.01.2024 6

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Notebook Jesse Darling blaming Margaret Thatcher for arts cuts is as inaccurate as it’s outdated

These retro times. No sooner had I finished stowing the candles I’d bought on the advice of the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, who believes...

09.12.2023 4

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