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Chief culture writer, The Guardian. GREEK MYTHS: A NEW RETELLING, is published on Sept 9, the same day that RED THREAD, about labyrinths, is out in paperback.

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    May 31

    This is not my book. It is a proof of the cover of my book, which is written but not yet printed, ineptly wrapped around quite a different book of roughly the same size (by Jacquetta Hawkes, for good luck). My book is out on September 9. I love this cover.

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    We're delighted to reveal the brilliant speakers in our 2021-22 Lecture Programme (events + online) , , , , , + starting on 16 Sept with Prof Robin Osborne

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  3. 13 hours ago

    The acknowledgements even in the Rome and Europe book make for interesting reading.

    Boris Johnson offered to pay for help writing Shakespeare biography, says scholar
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    13 hours ago

    MY CHILDREN ARE FEAR AND WAR. THEY WILL WALK AMONG YOU AND YOU WILL LEARN TO LOVE THEM AS I DO. GO FEAR, GO DEATH. SHARE WITH THE WORLD YOUR GIFT OF ENDLESS NIGHT.

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  5. 18 hours ago

    Also recalling that P. Wm did an art history degree at St Andrew's and grew up living amid basically the best study collection in the world. (Which should in my view be nationalised.)

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  6. 19 hours ago

    WRITERS they have pretty much done the actual writing for you. This takes two minutes.

    Yeah copyright is boring, but if you are a writer it pays your bills and if you are a reader it gives you books and bookshops. The kind people with a high boredom threshold are saying loudly: write to your MP before it's too late
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  7. Jul 1

    om....g

    I’m sorry but this is hideous.
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  8. Jun 30

    STOKE CONNECTED ART-INTERESTED PEOPLE etc >>

    🔥We are looking for people to join our Board of Trustees, including a new Chair, as we enter an ambitious phase of growth and organisational change 🔥 More info & Trustee info pack here 👇
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    Jun 30

    "The reality is that the most important factor in Osborne’s appointment is not politics, but money." Important stuff from on Two forthcoming papers from & me have all the data on how money dominates arts boards in England

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  10. Jun 28

    Eek, proof copies are in... (out Sept 9 UK/Nov 9 USA)

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    Jun 24

    This gets to the nub of why the proposed sell-off makes no sense. It costs the taxpayer nothing, yet succeeds in ploughing millions into British production and jobs while enhancing our international reputation. What exactly is the problem?

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  12. Jun 24

    George Osborne confirmed as chair of the British Museum. One of life’s great ironies, eh.

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  13. Jun 17

    Oh, thank you!

    Thoroughly enjoying this meditation on the dual physical/intellectual nature of the labyrinth, from .
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    Jun 17

    Thoroughly enjoying this meditation on the dual physical/intellectual nature of the labyrinth, from .

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  15. Jun 12

    Finger slipped - meant to type be-damed. Poor Phyllida, mistakenly de-damed by me before she’s even donned a concrete-and-scrim hat at the palace…

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  16. Jun 11

    Artist Phyllida Barlow has been de-damed in the honours list. Here’s my profile of her from 2017

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  17. Jun 9

    I love Gareth Southgate for talking about ‘the arts, science and sport’ – in that order – as things to which England as a nation has made a special contribution. Good for him.

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  18. May 30

    I can well believe it - the extract is wonderful. And a trivial remark given the subject of the book but a knock-out portrait of too!

    Every page of 's Consumed is as moving on sisterhood, grief and art, and as beautifully written, as this extract
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  19. May 29

    In which I consider a This Country style cameo for Tilda Swinton, and torment you afresh with that stupid crossword clue of Jim's. This month in Ambridge

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  20. May 26

    In which I had the great joy of interviewing Tacita Dean in Yorkshire, who was – she says – “useless” and “semi-dysfunctional” during lockdown.

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