| 单词 | Virginia Woolf |
| 例句 | She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I can go on quoting Virginia Woolf—believe me, the passage gets even hotter—but I decide I want to quote myself instead. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My favorite novel is Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In March of 1941, after three serious breakdowns, Virginia Woolf wrote a note to her husband and walked to a nearby river. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a book we discovered. By Virginia Woolf. We’ve been quoting the lines to each other off and on.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The quote is from Virginia Woolf’s suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I’m full-on cheating now, pulling up every Virginia Woolf site I can find. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Taylor, a screen goddess who also starred in classics such as "Giant," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," died in Los Angeles in March at age 79. Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sells for $115 million 2011-12-14T12:08:13Z We were nine previews into a new Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” which I was directing, when the shutdown happened. What Has Lockdown Meant for L.G.B.T.Q. Artists and Writers? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Art most effectively imitated life in the adaptation of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - in which Taylor and Burton played mates who fought viciously and drank heavily. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z Arguably one of the world's greatest actresses and most beautiful women, her most famous films included National Velvet, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? VIDEO: Fans mourn Elizabeth Taylor 2011-03-24T07:30:28Z The results might resemble “A Beautiful Mind” spiked with peppery flakes of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Books of The Times: Brooke Newman?s ?Jenniemae & James?: Dad and the Maid 2010-04-01T21:47:00Z Turner was last seen on the London stage in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2006. Turner 'excellent' in Bakersfield Mist 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z As I got to know Vera better, she forced me to confront a personality quirk that Virginia Woolf described as “contrary instincts.” Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z It can sometimes seem as if Gandhi and Virginia Woolf were the only major roles to have eluded him. Gary Oldman: will Churchill prove to be his finest hour? | The Observer profile 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf, who drove across Germany en route for Italy in 1935, was appalled by the antisemitic propaganda and the "stupid mass feeling". Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany – review 2013-01-18T20:00:01Z Her next Broadway role was in the replacement cast of Edward Albee’s scabrous portrait of a marriage, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” as Martha, the bitter, boozy wife. Elaine Stritch, Tart-Tongued Broadway Actress and Singer, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s not only men — Virginia Woolf fiercely defended a room of one’s own too. A co-working space for working writers 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In the last interview he gave before his untimely death, in 2001, Sebald credited the insight to reading Virginia Woolf, and particularly her essay “The Death of the Moth,” The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Martha in "Virginia Woolf" was an “ugly” woman, something the Taylor of the 1950s would never have been allowed to take on, and a part fundamentally offensive to her view of herself. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z In the early 20th century it was associated with some of the pioneers of modernism – Virginia Woolf in The Waves or William Faulkner in As I Lay Dying. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z Her books, especially “Touched by Fire,” look at length at artists and writers such as Vincent van Gogh, Lord Byron and Virginia Woolf, delving into the ways madness may have affected their art. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z As for Martha, anticipating the arrival of her unsuspecting guests, she enters singing blithely, “I’m totes cool with Virginia Woolf … I like how she was super gay.” Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf has this great quote in Mrs. Dalloway, “She always had this feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live for even one day.” Why Showtime's The Affair Will Be as Intense as Game of Thrones 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z He and Taylor break up, the relationship having turned into something even worse than the one they so vividly depicted in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Michael Moore documentary Roger and Me have also been chosen for preservation at the Library of Congress. Pulp and Poppins join film archive 2013-12-18T10:09:31Z Morrison earned degrees from Howard University and Cornell University, where she wrote her thesis on William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z A Place in the Sun, Giant, and the brilliant 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' are unforgettable films. Life in the public eye 2011-03-23T23:36:50Z Edward Albee did not win for the scalding “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z It has published important criticism by everyone from Virginia Woolf and T.S. A Scrappy Makeover for a Tweedy Literary Fixture 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z He adds that without this sense, the characters in novels by Virginia Woolf and EM Forster become "like cardboard symbols". Is there a 'number one' writer today? 2010-09-20T14:12:00Z For one thing, the little shindig that begins this later play echoes the nasty revels of “Virginia Woolf,” in which “get the guest” was the favorite parlor game. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z AP: This isn’t quite as mean as say, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” but these characters are pretty cruel to one another. Q&A: For McAvoy, Horgan ‘Together’ is an actor’s dream 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Like her comic-novel forebears — Flora in “Cold Comfort Farm,” Hazel in “Made for Love” and Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” — Heiny’s delightful protagonist contains multitudes and leaves us wanting to learn more about her life. Review | Katherine Heiny’s ‘Early Morning Riser’ may be the funniest novel of the year 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z And the British director Katie Mitchell’s mixed-media interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s “Waves,” which used digital simulcasts to summon subjective points of view, often captured the lapidary impressionism of Woolf’s prose. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Page Meets Stage 2010-10-13T22:20:00Z An aerial view of Virginia Woolf’s ink-stained desktop is unremarkable by itself, but it’s interesting to learn that she was not a neat housekeeper. ‘Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage’ Reflects on Past Greats 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Behind them is one of three decorative wall panels Virginia Woolf commissioned her sister Vanessa and fellow artist Duncan Grant to paint. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z She came to the film with a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” plus two Academy Award nominations, for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Absence of Malice.” Can We Talk About the Mom in ‘A Christmas Story’? 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Pinckney was in Berlin working with Robert Wilson, the avant-garde director, on a production of “Orlando,” the Virginia Woolf novel, which Mr. Pinckney had adapted. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf referred to death as “the one experience I shall never describe.” ‘Brown Girls,’ a Daring Debut That Follows Its Characters Through Life and Beyond 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z She went on to receive a master’s degree in literature at the Sorbonne, where she wrote dissertations on the works of Zelda Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf. Vocational Training From a Label Near You 2013-09-06T21:03:24Z When I finished these two excellent books, I thought of something Virginia Woolf wrote in a letter to a friend: “Very few women yet have written truthful autobiographies. It is my favorite form of reading.” Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z That honor went to Tracy Letts for his acclaimed performance as George in “Virginia Woolf” — a win that seemed to surprise even Mr. Letts, who looked stunned at first. ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Vanya’ Win Top Tonys 2013-06-10T04:10:09Z In a 2010 book, “Albee in Performance,” the playwright is quoted expressing concern about the casting of black actresses in the role of Martha, who is the daughter of the college’s president, in “Virginia Woolf.” A Black Actor in ‘Virginia Woolf’? Not Happening, Albee Estate Says 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Taylor, an Oscar winner for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 1966 and "Butterfield 8" in 1960, achieved stardom at the tender age of 12 in "National Velvet." Elizabeth Taylor spends 79th birthday in hospital 2011-02-27T20:01:29Z Extracts from The Lost Diaries: Virginia Woolf May 7th Am I merely snobbish in thinking that the lower classes have no aptitude or instinct for great literature or indeed literature of any kind? Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z Steppenwolf Theatre is cancelling Tuesday night performances of "Sex with Strangers" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," along with the Wednesday matinee of "Virginia Woolf." Steppenwolf cancels shows due to snow storm 2011-02-01T16:56:28Z Asked on CBS what Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was about, Albee replied, "It's about two and half hours, three hours." 'Broadway is junk' 2013-01-28T12:52:30Z If other characters didn’t reference their existence, this could be a “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” situation. ‘Billions’ Season 2 Premiere: Neanderthals 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z As a contrast, consider Virginia Woolf, who in her 1927 essay “Street Haunting” recalls the city at dusk in winter: How Walking Changes Us 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z "I just decided I'm old enough to play Virginia Woolf," she said, "so I would like to do that." Woodard dives into work to cope with empty nest 2012-09-19T03:16:04Z W. H. Auden explores the journals of Virginia Woolf and considers the revolutionary nature of her essays and novels. Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z He then edges forward into the war itself, to famous English individuals like Virginia Woolf, to French writers and diarists like Colette, and finally to Germans and to German Jews. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z An exhibition celebrating the life, art and vision of Virginia Woolf is about to open at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z And the distance between them made for moments that suggested something akin to Virginia Woolf paraphrasing Mark Twain. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z “It was impossible for a woman to go about alone,” Virginia Woolf wrote of Jane Austen in “A Room of One’s Own.” On Eating Alone in Paris 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z You gained attention for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” playing a retreating, nervous character. Carrie Coon, the Simultaneous Star of ‘The Leftovers’ and ‘Fargo’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Virtually every surface in the house, a way station for intellectual bohemians including Vanessa Bell’s sister, the novelist Virginia Woolf, is covered in joyous drawings. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Robbie speaks in italics throughout, as if he were an oracle or, like the baby in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” imaginary. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Remember those vicious, bewildering party games played by the hosts in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car,” Ballard notes. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z Then there were two plays that started previews but never made it to opening night: Martin McDonagh’s “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Curtains Up! How Broadway Is Coming Back From Its Longest Shutdown. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Sounds like your beau is merely taking a page from Virginia Woolf and pressing for “A Room of One’s Own.” Social Q?s: Social Q?s: Lonely Hearts Club Ban 2010-08-05T22:31:00Z “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is about an infertile couple. Their twisted secret is that they have this fake baby. But nobody says: ‘Oh, yeah, the infertility play.’ 'Having a child is a distraction from your own mortality': Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins on their IVF film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z She went on to appear in a range of dramatic productions, notably replacing Uta Hagen in the early 1960s as the shrewish Martha in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 And I was nodding my head as I read David Myers’s letter about the “poetry” in Michael Cunningham’s essay on Virginia Woolf. Individual Consciousness, Lengthy Biographies and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Albee, whose other works include "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" New Edward Albee play a Signature highlight 2013-03-13T14:08:07Z I asked what that meant for Kate and Ms. Bening evaded elegantly, describing unrelated sections of Miller’s autobiography, segueing somehow into “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z As in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” love that hates loves an audience; it turns adversaries into allies. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Cherry Blossoms and a Fan Telling Tales Virginia Woolf titled one essay “On Not Knowing Greek,” which she began, “For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek.” Dance Review: Kabuki With Bando Kotoji at Japan Society 2012-04-01T21:13:38Z Despite meeting luminaries of the 20th century from Winston Churchill to Virginia Woolf to King Edward and Mrs Simpson, says Claflin, "he just floats through as an ordinary man". Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin: three actors, one man 2010-11-21T06:00:00Z Shows that were to open this spring have abandoned their plans, including “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until January 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z For a class about loss, students read Elizabeth Alexander and Virginia Woolf; for one about “altered states,” Cheryl Strayed and Thomas De Quincey. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In Freud's rhetorical ploys, he's always pitting himself against creative writers, which is why Nabokov and Virginia Woolf, for instance, took the bait and bristled accordingly. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Photograph: maryonthegreen.org What did Virginia Woolf declare a woman needed if she were to write fiction? Equal writing: International Women's Day quiz 2013-03-08T13:56:00Z And for the next three centuries, she ponders the differences between men and women — as well as their similarities — in Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Secrets of the Six Wives’ and the Rolling Stones 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Twenty years on in London, Virginia Woolf had a different kind of home education, reading her way through her father Leslie Stephen's library. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z It was the point at which Virginia Woolf took on the Joycean revolution of the novel and tried to tell a story from the perspective of consciousness, rather than the omniscient narrative. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z When Virginia Woolf read Ulysses she dismissed it out of hand; then she talked about it to Katherine Mansfield and changed her mind. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Yes, I went by the blurb, which announced a cross between “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “The Big Bang Theory.” FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The two critics delved into the conflict between what Virginia Woolf called “the angel in the house” — the good, domestic, female self — and the rage and desire for freedom that accompany artistic creation. The Authors of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ Are Back With a New (Angry) Book 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The 51-year-old is no stranger to changing her looks for roles, such as when she played Virginia Woolf in “The Hours”, for which she won an Oscar. Nicole Kidman radically transforms for drama 'Destroyer' 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z A novel of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, constructed around an invented diary and letters. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Her 33-year career features a string of art-house films and theatrical productions, but just one commercial blockbuster – Batman Forever – and Kidman won her Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in a prosthetic nose. Nicole Kidman on Lion and adoption: 'It's about the simplicity of love' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z At the Met, Ms. La Barbara’s program began with “Windows,” a recent electroacoustic piece inspired by Joseph Cornell and Virginia Woolf. Two Downtown Luminaries, Still Blazing 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z That ill wind follows me down my street in the way that thoughts followed Virginia Woolf down the road in her essay “Street Haunting,” published in 1930: Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In the recent case of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in Portland, Ore., casting a black actor in the role of Nick was a color-conscious choice, director Michael Streeter said by email. Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf helped shape post-Victorian Britain, influenced the course of literature, and continues to touch writers and readers the world over. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z She was nominated for a Tony for “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on Broadway, and recently played Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage” in Washington. Kathleen Turner seeks satisfaction on London stage 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The chapter titles are from Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves.” A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z I re-read Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own recently, and it's really interesting. Alicia Duffy: A film of one's own 2010-05-16T20:35:00Z Sept. 16 Edward Albee, best known for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, dies at 88. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Not long ago, I was reading another Virginia Woolf essay, about the Brontës, when I came across some lines about Emily that made me think of Bush. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Essentially, Showalter takes Virginia Woolf's "room of one's own" thesis and applies it to fiction. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z With the science of sleep proving Virginia Woolf was playing with fire when she dismissed shuteye as a “deplorable curtailment of the joy of life”, it is no wonder we’re anxious to get enough. Dream ticket: how sleep became a billion-dollar business 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z In our capital city, there is no Virginia Woolf Road, or Joseph Conrad Avenue, or Wittgenstein Square, or Auden Street – though Kirchstetten, the Austrian village where Auden spent his summers, has an Audenstrasse. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z But Mr. Murphy suggested that his friend view it in Albee-esque terms, and the director heard its similarities in tone with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The other best revival of a play nominees included "Orphans," "The Trip to Bountiful" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" which won nominations for lead actors Tracy Letts and Amy Morton. Musical 'Kinky Boots' leads Tony nominations with 13 2013-04-30T15:18:54Z It is hard not to fall in love with Virginia Woolf’s love for Vita Sackville-West, on whom Orlando is modeled and to whom the book is dedicated. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z That this or that writer was not Virginia Woolf but was similarly female? The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Rip, as Joan called him, was dark, compact and pugilistic, and their relationship was along the lines of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” only more so. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z This is why I found video games so fulfilling, and no doubt why my introduction to “serious” literature as a teenager was primarily through 20th-century modernists like Virginia Woolf and Hermann Hesse. What Pokémon Can Teach Us About Fiction 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The opening line of “Weakness,” a song that first appeared on a surprise EP released in July, is telling: “Sometimes I’m Virginia Woolf/Sometimes I’m James Dean.” Margo Price, Nashville Outsider, Tells It Like It Really Is 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z I lingered over the pages of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” on South Beach and “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” by Italo Calvino, outside Tulum. Road Trip Reads 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The combination of those flowers with Virginia Woolf seemed peculiarly moving to me. The precious unprinted contents of books 2010-08-13T12:14:00Z Nichols excelled at translating stage productions into sublime films, including Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which earned him the Oscar for best director. Mike Nichols: A Look Back at the Director's Best Films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z One of her Oscars came for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z Gregarious and immensely likable, Walpole eventually counted Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and, a bit later, Bennett’s sometime critic Virginia Woolf among his good friends. He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z He appeared on Broadway in revivals of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Popular Character Actor Ben Gazzara Dies at 81 2012-02-04T18:36:09Z Nichols’ “Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is one of the best adaptations of a stage play ever, and Elizabeth Taylor is ferocious in every scene she’s in: Mike Nichols’ best scenes: From the “Graduate” seduction to the monologues of “Angels in America” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Bogart and Mr. Clarke took the same approach to the director Robert Wilson in “Bob” and the writer Virginia Woolf in “Room.” Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z After graduating from Yale — where he cut his teeth directing a young Paul Giamatti in a production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Shawn Levy's 'Museum' debut had special effect on director 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z She draws inspiration from Virginia Woolf, another childless woman writer who addressed her own mother-daughter bond through a fiction scrim in "To the Lighthouse," concluding: "For nothing was simply one thing." 'Are You My Mother?': Alison Bechdel's take on the mother-daughter bond 2012-05-10T20:25:04Z A number of pictures feature Monk's House, the Sussex retreat of novelist Virginia Woolf. Rocker's art 2011-06-17T08:11:00Z Cairns’ production is the one weak point, replacing Buñuel’s surreal elegance with what comes across as an operatic “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z However, his 1962 hit Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, last seen in the UK at the Sheffield Crucible two years ago, is doing a roaring trade on Broadway. 'Broadway is junk' 2013-01-28T12:52:30Z And she was Honey, the dopey guest in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at Ford’s. Perspective | You love theater? So do these 12 D.C. stage dynamos. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But McKinnon, who reignited Virginia Woolf, is a slight favorite, and deservedly so. A Critic’s Guide to the 2013 Tony Awards 2013-06-08T09:45:58Z “After I wrote ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ The Playwright and a Revival of His ?Lady From Dubuque? 2012-03-03T01:10:55Z For a different kind of time-bending story, see Sally Potter’s loose adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel “Orlando.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Amazing Stories’ and ‘Ugly Delicious’ 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In college, I’d read and been inspired by Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z As Virginia Woolf wrote, "all my facts about lighthouses are wrong". The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z I began at last to read, the curse broken by a thriller and by doses of the diaries of Virginia Woolf. 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Neuwirth’s inspiration is Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” a fictional, often funny biography that blurs both genre and gender. Review: An ‘Orlando’ Opera Is a Milestone, but No More, in Vienna 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z As Morris explains to his adoring creative writing students: "no motives, no emotional states, and keep Virginia Woolf from the door". Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z And there are those we might not expect to have fallen under the composer’s spell, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodor Herzl, Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Pulp and Poppins join film archive 2013-12-18T10:09:31Z Virginia Woolf once asked, wondering why so many are published and so few endure. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The best writing in the book appears in its quotations from Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag. Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z It’s giddy and wild and, thanks to Huppuch’s especially astonishing work, kind of terrifying, in the vein of the bilious truth-telling in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” ‘The Wolfe Twins’ at Studio Theatre: A smart trip I was teaching an introductory course to Western culture — Sophocles, ‘The Confessions of St. Augustine’ — and I added ‘Virginia Woolf’ to the list as soon as I got back. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Returns for an Anniversary 2012-09-29T23:00:21Z Virginia Woolf brought Taylor her second Oscar, but her screen career from that point on can be seen as a downhill journey and the public tired of Burton and Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z Virginia Woolf showed what a mess our minds are, Gertrude Stein wrote portraits through a Cubist kaleidoscope, and T. S. Eliot shored fragments against his ruins. A Stylistically Daring Novel Considers Fundamental Questions 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Taylor’s performance as Gloria Wandrous in “BUtterfield 8” earned her the first of two Academy Awards for best actress in a leading role — the second was for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” What’s on TV This Week: The N.B.A. Draft and Cesar Millan 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z And they all start saying “kiss the captive,” which is like “hump the hostess” in “Virginia Woolf.” Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Morrison began as a disciple both of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z One that sent Mr. Bolton not just into his own storage room but down a conceptual wormhole: through Charles Baudelaire and the early-20th-century philosopher Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein and Walter Benjamin, Proust and Virginia Woolf. How Memory Maps Fashion’s Future 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf apparently thought that men couldn’t be trusted with women’s stories. Two Novels About Rape, Murder and Female Victims 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z An awards plea for a performance as Virginia Woolf? For your consideration: this season's most overlooked film performances 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins comes to mind—the “gash-gold vermillion” of “The Windhover”—so does Emily Dickinson, and Virginia Woolf’s later novels, especially “The Waves.” Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf entirely rewrote her Cambridge speech before it was published. What makes a great speech? 2011-02-26T00:07:28Z Virginia Woolf, writing to her pal Ethel Smyth, noted that “the state of reading consists in the complete elimination of the ego.” The rise of social reading: Goodbye to Virginia Woolf’s solitary, egoless reader 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The Academy Award-winning star of "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was 79 when she died on March 23 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles. 400 at private Elizabeth Taylor memorial service 2011-10-17T14:14:08Z Yet it is miracle enough Taylor got her shot, opposite Burton, at the film that netted her a second Academy Award, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Taylor a star in every phase 2011-03-23T17:22:00Z What if the actress playing the heavy-drinking Martha on stage every night in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was, offstage, a recovering alcoholic? This character ? and movie ? deserves 'Applause' 2012-04-12T20:09:04Z Coco Chanel whispered something to Matisse or Prokoviev or Max Reinhardt, and the person with the programme was Clive Bell, accompanying the "lovely but incredibly silly ladies" lampooned in letters by his sister-in-law Virginia Woolf. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z For much of the 1960s, Mr. Albee abandoned the emotional clarity and explosiveness of “Virginia Woolf” for more abstract premises. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z First of all, he took their names not from the father of our country and the first first lady but from Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” For the Love of ‘George and Martha’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z I reread “To the Lighthouse” a couple of years ago and I thought, I know this house is based on a real house where Virginia Woolf spent her summers. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Some people had access to that, because they were more middle class like Virginia Woolf and Jane. "Mothering Sunday" director on challenging politics through intimacy: "Nudity levels out classes" 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Like Virginia Woolf said, "My mind works in idleness." Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z We started with Virginia Woolf and the self-regarding Bloomsbury Group declaiming their own brilliance in a stream of consciousness, and raced through Britain's literary Who's Who. TV review: Death in the Med, Our Drug War and In their Own Words 2010-08-17T07:00:00Z Starting his career under the influence of Virginia Woolf, he was a resolutely modern writer, attuned to the fine vibrations of individual and interpersonal psychology against the backdrop of everyday life. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf wasn’t always the radical we imagine today. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf was one of its most eloquent exponents. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z What happened, the lament went, to the Edward Albee who wrote “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” his breakout hit from 1962. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z The banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966′s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and worked into his late 80s on the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” established Mr. Albee, then 34, as an astringent heir to O’Neill. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z She refers to the essay On Being Ill, in which Virginia Woolf describes the transformative nature of sickness. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z Like the party guests in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z How about What Would Virginia Woolf Do? one friend joked darkly, because of course what Woolf did, at 59, was kill herself. A Chat Room of Their Own 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z These are shown along with other Swedish artist collectives from the period, particularly through the lens of feminism in a gallery titled “A Room of One’s Own,” in homage to Virginia Woolf. In Search of Hilma af Klint, Who Upended Art History, But Left Few Traces 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It's the first time back on Broadway for Turner since she nabbed a Tony nomination opposite Bill Irwin in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Kathleen Turner returning to Broadway in `High' 2011-01-21T21:07:09Z Stevenson devotes most of the essay to the art of capturing or even simulating reality on paper, a puzzle that Virginia Woolf and other 20th century modernists would attempt to solve. Long-lost essay by 'Dr. Jekyll' author published 2013-03-14T11:45:09Z The opera, like the novel and film, gives us a glimpse into the lives of three very different women in widely separated time periods, all connected in some way to Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway.” Fleming returns to Met in new opera based on ‘The Hours’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z On the opening night of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at the Steppenwolf, a badly timed cell phone dominates the emotional finale. Play-by-play recap of the year in Chicago theater 2010-12-29T20:51:38Z For Jackson, Virginia Woolf's dictum that a woman needs "money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" has a wider application. Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader' 2010-04-08T09:41:00Z Virginia Woolf wasn’t there either — nor was she on my literature course at the University of Oxford. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Elia Kazan’s movie version of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” and Mike Nichols’ movie version of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” don’t completely hide their Broadway pedigrees either. Casey versus Denzel: Oscar's lead actor race is a dramatic study in contrasts 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf’s writing desk, a star of the collection, stayed behind at Duke. The Overlooked History of Women at Work 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Not at all what Virginia Woolf imagined when she floated that concept. A "Sex and the City" revival minus Samantha? We're just not that into it 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In her superb “Virginia Woolf,” she boldly and woolfishly rethought biographical form and managed to bring a complicated novelist alive. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The models he used were his friends, the Bloomsbury lot, so you can spot the likes of Virginia Woolf correctand Lytton Strachey. William Nicholson's cultural highlights 2013-03-09T15:00:01Z The St. Ives I knew seems to have gone away and I never was a fan of Virginia Woolf. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The show sends up the celebrated literary Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia Woolf. Lloyd Pack drama to air on Radio 4 2014-03-11T10:28:48Z Lovers have Shakespeare, Donne and Keats, but for headache sufferers, “language at once runs dry,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her 1926 essay “On Being Ill.” What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Taylor publicist Sally Morrison said Tuesday that the "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" Oscar winner is comfortable at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Publicist: Liz Taylor still hospitalized but OK 2011-02-15T17:46:49Z As Virginia Woolf once said of Wollstonecraft, “We hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living.” A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Their nonsense song — “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf” — has become a kind of lifesaving lullaby. At 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ... Pain, laid bare, and then 'ring, ring' 2010-12-16T23:20:41Z Eliot told Virginia Woolf that Joyce's Ulysses, which he believed did in prose what The Waste Land did in verse, "destroyed the whole of the 19th century". I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z Like Virginia Woolf, Gilgi recognizes the need for a room — and a typewriter — of her own. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “And then,” she adds, “I thought that I had better write something that could stand respectably next to Virginia Woolf before I imitated her death.” Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z It was a Virginia Woolf world, a Siegfried Sassoon world, and experience, dark, hidden experience, rose up to the light in the fireproof room. Once upon a life 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z Modernist authors like Virginia Woolf are especially challenging because she asks readers to keep up with six different mental states, or what the scholars call levels of intentionality. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z As in Tolstoy, though she occasionally cheats, she says, with Virginia Woolf. | Olivia Sandelman 2011-03-10T14:01:34Z “She came back here a lot: It’s the place where she locates her aspirations to be a writer,” Laura Smith, the curator of “Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings,” explained. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Nichols directed a number of screen adaptations of notable plays, starting with his Hollywood debut, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Mike Nichols, 83: A prolific theater director who could do it all 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z So, it seems, did Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf and now Philip Roth, who suffers from arthritis in one shoulder. RSI: a very sore point for writers 2010-09-17T10:21:00Z Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Keynes, born in 1883, came of age amid the bohemian experimentation of the Bloomsbury Group, exchanging lovers and gossip with a set that included Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z As a novice movie helmsman, he directed them in Edward Albee’s scorching marital drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies Borrowing from Virginia Woolf, Masud comes to consider that impression of a deserted, featureless land the “base that life stands upon.” From Lahore to Orford Ness, Searching for the Roots of Trauma 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z At the age of 35 in 1966, Mike Nichols directed his first Hollywood film - an adaptation of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. In pictures: Mike Nichols films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Still, for years, I’ve found myself returning to Virginia Woolf and Ralph Ellison at regular intervals. What books inspired Richard Russo, Harlan Coben, Lauren Groff and others 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “To the Lighthouse,” Virginia Woolf’s 1927 masterpiece, was the one that kept coming to mind — specifically its experimental middle section, “Time Passes.” Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Sally Potter’s spectacular adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel exploited all of Swinton’s androgynous qualities. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Their most recent collaboration, a revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” never made it to opening night because of the coronavirus pandemic. Laurie Metcalf to Return to Broadway in a Horror Story, ‘Grey House’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z We meet with the usual suspects — like Nietzsche and Dawkins — but also romp around with Plato, Wittgenstein, Yeats, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z You would be hard pressed to find a writer from the 20th century more admiringly cited than Virginia Woolf. Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z On the way out I asked Hattie if “Virginia Woolf” might possibly — my wife and I have been known to have a cocktail and quarrel on occasion — have hit too close to home. Critic’s Notebook: Deciding How to Expose Children to Challenging Cultural Fare 2012-10-28T21:36:29Z The great paradigm for later portraits of marriage as a blood sport, including Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Literary critics likened his experimental prose to modernist masters like Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and William Faulkner, while others noted his debt to fellow South African writer J.M. Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The structure of “Boys” is not unlike that of an earlier scandalous sensation of a play, Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z A new ballet inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf is being written for the Royal Ballet. Virginia Woolf inspires new ballet 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Albee is best known for “Virginia Woolf,” a penetrating 1962 drama that was adapted into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Who even reads Virginia Woolf in our time, beside some Vassar grads and their ilk who speak in affected swooping tones? In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z That’s especially true for the fourth Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — and the first since the death of its author, Edward Albee. Is Broadway Stuck on Replay? 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z She aspired to be an actor like Viola Davis or one with enough range to star in “A Raisin in the Sun” or “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” as she was learning her craft. Nicole Byer is nailing it 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z But Tracy Letts won for his revelatory turn as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Kinky Boots dances to victory 2013-06-10T09:10:00Z Taylor didn't phone in any scenes in Virginia Woolf, especially not the drunken fog with co-star George Segal, which Lehman feared would make the censors apoplectic. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z And, on the opening night of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Steppenwolf, a badly timed cell phone dominates the emotional finale. The year in Chicago theater, in scenes 2010-12-27T06:00:00Z Virginia Woolf, greeted last fall by gorgeous reviews but relatively little business, is the class act here, and the deserved frontrunner. A Critic’s Guide to the 2013 Tony Awards 2013-06-08T09:45:58Z As Virginia Woolf once wrote, “I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me.” Review | In ‘Real Estate,’ Deborah Levy contemplates the structures that define us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z This astringent line, about Thomas Hardy’s funeral, is from the diary of Virginia Woolf, and also from Dominick Argento’s classic 1974 song cycle, “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.” Music Review: Virginia Woolf?s Words, a Singer?s Voice 2011-05-03T22:04:56Z The ballet season includes a mix of mainstays, like “The Sleeping Beauty,” and new pieces, like “Woolf Works,” a trio of short ballets by Wayne McGregor, inspired by Virginia Woolf. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z As Virginia Woolf reflected: “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Atop the Booth Theater is a headstone of sorts: a darkened marquee promoting a revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” that closed before opening. Showtime, Suspended 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z She is known as an interpreter of Edward Albee, the playwright who wrote “Virginia Woolf.” Pam MacKinnon, Tony-Winning Director, to Lead San Francisco Theater 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z His most enduring, produced and analyzed work was “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A children’s chorus that Richard, the dying poet, hears in his head turns out to be the nieces and nephews of Virginia Woolf, holding a funeral for a bird. ‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film. 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The inscription reads, stiffly: "To Virginia Woolf, From the author, TS Eliot." Sotheby's to auction 'knockout' collection of first-edition books 2010-06-01T16:54:00Z Sort of related: Virginia Woolf’s writings have been popping up online in the New Republic’s archives. Essential Arts & Culture: Art and the West, L.A.'s queer Chicano networks, Harry Potter architecture 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z It was deployed to memorable effect by Virginia Woolf in a letter to The New Statesman, in response to a review. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Then turn and turn again, as Virginia Woolf describes a landscape viewed through the aperture of the First World War’s “sharp, / immediate sorrow.” ‘Roget’s Ilusion’: wheels within wheels, words within words 2014-05-07T20:16:34Z Virginia Woolf took vacations with her family at their holiday home, Talland House, in St. Ives until she was 13, and returned to the town in adulthood. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Just before the end of Edward Albee's “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” a cold and brutal dawn rises over New Carthage. At 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ... Pain, laid bare, and then 'ring, ring' 2010-12-16T23:20:41Z Deeply loving, deeply violent and always sparring, increasingly desperately, the two have a relationship that recalls another Martha, from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The best parts of Starz's Watergate series “Gaslit” are the characters history cast aside 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Death of Power: "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf is a writer of unsurpassed beauty and eloquence. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z In her first, “To the River,” she walked the length of the Ouse — the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned herself — blending Woolf’s story with a larger meditation on landscape. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “I am the only woman in England free to write what I like,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in 1925, the year she published her fourth novel. A Glimpse of Virginia Woolf’s Original Manuscript for ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z I’ve seen Dostoyevsky’s deck of cards, read the first drafts of Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech, stared down the field from Virginia Woolf’s writing cottage toward the river where she drowned. Chasing Spirits: Mexico City’s House Museums 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z We talked a lot about the play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” because it’s about two people tearing each other apart. Actor Tobias Menzies on the ‘Outlander’ Death We All Knew Was Coming 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Audience members may find themselves thinking at moments of the truth-and-illusion games played by the couples in Strindberg’s “Dance of Death,” Pinter’s “Old Times” and in particular Mr. Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z In London also, she photographed Virginia Woolf with her cigarette holder, and Virginia and Leonard with their dog. Photography: The Elegance of Gis?le Freund 2011-10-19T12:00:17Z Virginia Woolf described her as "a cross between a charwoman and a Gypsy", with dirty fingernails. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z Not knowing what else to do, she funnelled her distress into the proposal for a book about Virginia Woolf, weaving in elements from her own life. Why we should learn to embrace failure | Elizabeth Day 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z She recalled a quotation from Virginia Woolf, who referred to the novel in her time as a “soft form.” Podcasts Stretch Wings Beyond Audio and Go Live, in Festivals 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In this delightful — and very British — novel, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron all make cameos, along with, of course, Jane Austen. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z That Impressionistic principle informs this book, too, in a way that may remind readers of Virginia Woolf. In ‘The Sunken Cathedral,’ Kate Walbert evokes Virginia Woolf 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z For all the ferocity of her screen roles and the turmoil of her life, Taylor was remembered by "Virginia Woolf" director Mike Nichols for her gentler, life-affirming side. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z But then again, her idea of a date film is “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The top five Valentine’s Day romance films 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z There, he enjoyed pleasant moments with his family, both indoors and in the garden, and met such luminaries as Salvador Dalí and Virginia Woolf, who published his books in English. Reflecting on Sigmund Freud 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z In the fall, she'll helm a Broadway revival of Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Director Pam MacKinnon scales the Broadway heights 2012-04-13T16:49:09Z They are currently starring in the title role in a West End production of “Orlando,” based on Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending, time-traveling novel. For Emma Corrin, Identity Is an Ever-Evolving Project 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Gordon links five visionaries who made literary history — George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf — through their shared understanding of death and violence. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In 1991, Mr. Albee told the Times, “I suppose I could have gone on writing ‘Son of Virginia Woolf’ forever. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He did the score for my first movie, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” so I had an attachment to him. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z Taylor was praised as a child and adolescent, but from the early 50s until Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? it was customary for serious critics to regard her with patronising contempt. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z A year after that Virginia Woolf took her own life: a sad end to the remarkable life of an individual who changed the world with her brilliant but fragile mind. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Edward Albee, the playwright whose Broadway debut — “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — remains one of the best-known American plays, was mourned by the people who knew him best: those in the world of theater. ‘He Changed the World’: Artists Mourn Edward Albee 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The best-known articulation of the problem of unequal access to the tools of writing is surely “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf’s clearsighted feminist polemic from 1929. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z It is a fitting image of what Virginia Woolf helped do to the novel, stripping it from convention. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Tovey is currently in New York to perform in a Broadway production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” that opens in April. There Are No Pictures, but This Art Podcast Is Thriving 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z At worst, of the softheaded but seemingly sincere belief that a more manageable life is just a well-chosen Virginia Woolf quote away. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z I would invite Virginia Woolf for an aperitif. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z What emerges is a composite view of the fragility of humankind that suggests a hybrid of Virginia Woolf and the Court regular Caryl Churchill. Review: In ‘Ink,’ a Media Mogul Is Born — Rupert Murdoch 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Letts, also an actor who won a Tony Award this year for his portrayal of George in a revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," grew up in Oklahoma. 'August: Osage County' probes family ties that bind, wound 2013-12-20T16:25:47Z With four tickets to “Virginia Woolf” in our hands, these sorts of questions were on our minds. Critic’s Notebook: Deciding How to Expose Children to Challenging Cultural Fare 2012-10-28T21:36:29Z For years, as Virginia Woolf famously wrote in “A Room of One’s Own,” Anonymous was a woman. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Producers of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" said Wednesday they've secured the Booth Theatre for the run. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' moves into Booth 2012-06-13T15:09:10Z Her marriage to Cruise had just ended and she was in a state of unhinged depression – she said at the time that she truly believed Virginia Woolf had come into her life to save her. Nicole Kidman: ‘To hear women being believed makes me cry’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z But what begins as a riff on “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” morphs into a modern-day “Doll’s House.” Theater Review: ‘Playing With Grown Ups’ by Hannah Patterson at 59E59 2014-05-07T19:39:05Z Bitter, brutal and death-haunted, "The Dance of Death" is the forerunner of such combative marital dramas as Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and, most especially, Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Among the classics, Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” which I reread every handful of years and picked up again after my daughter was born. Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z When Virginia Woolf visited New Place in the 1930s, she was told it was where he wrote the Tempest. Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden 2010-04-05T16:33:00Z But it is a staple of such colleges’ English curriculums, Virginia Woolf, whose guiding specter still hovers over the enterprise. The Wing, a Chic Women’s Club, Is Going Wide 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Even Portia’s heartbreak at the hands of Sheen’s wimpy character — he leaves her for a colleague she calls “that vile Virginia Woolf scholar” — is played mostly for punishing laughs. Admission: Grating on a Curve 2013-03-21T14:00:45Z Edna’s will blazes up even in this tiny, hanging room of her own, as Virginia Woolf would famously phrase it nearly 30 years later. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z From passionate pictures of them happy, so happy, together to their nightmarish evisceration of a rotten relationship in the film of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Love is pain. That's the message of the Richard Burton–Elizabeth Taylor story 2013-06-05T16:00:01Z Once during a phone call, he used “Leonard Woolf” — the name of Virginia Woolf’s famously nurturing husband — as a verb. ‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The acclaimed revival of Edward Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" grossed only $264,854 last week, or about 40 percent of the maximum possible amount, according to box-office data released on Monday. ArtsBeat: A Dark and Stormy Fall Season for Broadway 2012-12-10T21:34:31Z Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” published by Viking Press, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection; Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” made good money in hardcover and paperback for Atheneum. The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z With “A Delicate Balance,” Mr. Albee resoundingly made good on his “Virginia Woolf” promise. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z One of the Monuments women survives, Anne Olivier Popham Bell, of Sussex, England, a 97-year-old Virginia Woolf scholar who handled logistics for the team in Germany. Not All Monuments Men Were Men 2014-01-29T18:13:42Z The movie of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was my gateway drug. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Ms. MacKinnon, who directed the recent Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” does her best to disguise the presence of invisible podiums. ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid,’ With Cherry Jones 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf didn’t like “Ulysses” at first and passed up a chance to be its first publisher. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z His films included “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Elaine May to Direct Mike Nichols Documentary for PBS 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z This “Virginia Woolf” takes place in an age when a text is meant to be mined and ransacked at our higher institutions of learning. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z I know how Mr. Isherwood felt about “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” ArtsBeat: Brantley, Isherwood Answer Readers’ Questions About the Theater Season 2013-05-02T17:29:09Z After work one quiet Sunday night I spotted “The World” on the shelf in the “Essays” section, equidistant from volumes by James Baldwin and Virginia Woolf. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Historical fiction often proves an irritating hybrid, but in her second novel, Priya Parmar mostly succeeds in inhabiting the voices of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and various members of the Bloomsbury group. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Now, for £10, you can download the final words of anyone from Alan Turing to Virginia Woolf or Diana, Princess of Wales. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Like Big Ben overseeing every page of Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic Mrs. Dalloway, time — even the actual word — haunts with a needling and anxious insistence. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z His commanding performance as George in the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” will surely come as no surprise to local theatergoers. | 'Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?': Watch It, Martha: This George Is a Stealth Bomb 2010-12-13T03:01:00Z But this time “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” now closed, is narrowly favored over “The Trip to Bountiful,” which is scheduled to play through the summer. Predictions From Tony Award Voters 2013-06-06T16:30:00Z And that can be me, a girl from Kansas City, trying to understand Virginia Woolf. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf finds typesetting cathartic, and publishing the poems and short texts of other writers, inspiring. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s a weakness of “Motherhood” that this point, which occupied Virginia Woolf, for one, throughout her writing life, is sourced only to Miles. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The league also named “Pippin” best revival of a musical and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” best revival of a play. ArtsBeat: Drama League Prizes Go to ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Vanya and Sonia’ 2013-05-17T20:15:33Z And the child is reduced to mere baggage when Ms. Roiphe imagines drowning herself almost the way Virginia Woolf did, but weighted down by offspring rather than stones. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z Sebald, for example, a German writer burdened with the question of how to address the ruination of the Second World War, is a literary event made in some way possible by Virginia Woolf. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z I know we were talking about Virginia Woolf—and this worked its way into the book—about “To the Lighthouse” and where it was set. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The movie, of course, was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" -- a scorching drama adapted from Edward Albee's Broadway play. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.” I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A handsome and immense multimedia print combines images of a Vuillard painting with those of the wallpaper book covers favored by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press. Lucy Skaer: ‘Sticks & Stones’ and ‘Random House’ 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Feb. 7, 1910: Virginia Woolf — wearing a fake beard — and friends masquerade as turbaned Abyssinian royalty and are given a red-carpet tour of HMS Dreadnought by an unsuspecting British admiral. Style Invitational: Songs without end (or beginning) 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z When she returned, it was with a band named after Virginia Woolf's suicidal literary suffragette. Siobhan Fahey: the godmother to a generation of witchy pop stars 2012-10-12T23:05:00Z If some copies direct us, as Barchas supposes, to the daughter of an English sea captain, a Harvard law student, a Scottish immigrant to America, others point to Leonard and Virginia Woolf. When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “The Bell Jar,” by Sylvia Plath; “Mrs. Dalloway,” by Virginia Woolf, which is by far one of my favorite books. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The verbal abuse these people hurl at one another is up there with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z But this half-baked rehash of a dynamic familiar from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” through “God of Carnage” is too contrived to score many compelling points. | 'A Perfect Future': Racism Comes to Dinner and Everything Is Flamb? 2011-02-22T22:30:23Z When Rebecca Ryan's Jo and Lucy Black as her mother, Helen, are on stage together, they are as ruthless – and as alive – as George and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Taste of Honey – review 2013-01-23T17:33:00Z Her next opera, to be premiered at the Vienna State Opera in 2019, explores the subject of “gender boundaries” through Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando.” Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Like Virginia Woolf before her, Jill Soloway has taken the common image of a woman in the kitchen, an act with mostly feminine associations, and made it so much more than a performance of gender. “Transparent” tells the truth about being a mom: Motherhood is just as performative as gender 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z But as David Esbjornson’s crisp production reminds us, the Albee of “Virginia Woolf” is very much present in “Dubuque.” Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z Another was blown away by Taylor's electrifying performance as the boozy, embittered, charismatic Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" -- the only Taylor movie she's ever seen -- and resolved to have a marriage like that. The short and strange career of Elizabeth Taylor, movie star 2011-03-23T19:30:00Z Someone like Virginia Woolf, Melville, you could do a whole book on those people. Q&A: Tom Nissley on his ‘A Reader’s Book of Days’ 2013-12-13T21:47:59Z Shauna muses that she would have gone to Brown and written about Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf while romancing a floppy-haired boyfriend. Now and then: How "Yellowjackets" purposefully reminds Gen Xers of who we thought we'd be 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z George and Martha, 50 Years Together IT may be 2 a.m. when George and Martha stumble home at the beginning of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” but the evening is just getting started. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Returns for an Anniversary 2012-09-29T23:00:21Z There’s lots of content in “ha”: recorded dialogue from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; a ceiling projection of a screaming girl; rigorous, repetitive, pugilistic movement for the performers, all wearing large white gloves. Dance Review: Spontaneity, Nudity and Absurdity: It Is What It Is 2011-03-25T22:43:59Z That was an audacious collision of craziness and mundanity that paved the way for Brenda and Effie, featuring Iris Murdoch logging in to an internet chatroom and Virginia Woolf pursued by Fu Manchu. In praise of Brenda and Effie 2010-10-28T09:46:00Z When my film “Otto: or Up With Dead People,” which has at least one “Virginia Woolf” reference in it, opened in New York, somebody took Edward Albee to see it. Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z "Virginia Woolf thought that the income tax, if it continued, would benefit poets by enlarging their vocabularies and I dare say that she was right." Dear Life by Dennis O'Driscoll - review 2012-06-29T21:55:02Z But there is something about their mind games reminiscent of the regressive fantasies constructed by George and Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as a means of protecting themselves from psychic pain. Tender Napalm ? review 2012-05-18T11:30:57Z Time tracing Virginia Woolf’s tracks in London is better spent. Take a walk on the Parisian side with Lauren Elkin's 'Flâneuse' 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “You can have somebody singing in the ’50s and then Virginia Woolf enters into the picture singing counterpoint. Fleming returns to Met in new opera based on ‘The Hours’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The beginning of the next song cycle, “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf,” contains a similar prompt, a question from Woolf to herself: “What sort of diary should I like mine to be?” How an Opera Can Fit in a Mailbox 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z I was supposed to write, ‘Son of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and keep on doing that. The Playwright and a Revival of His ?Lady From Dubuque? 2012-03-03T01:10:55Z So it was an utterly unexpected dropped-from-heaven day when I was offered the part of Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opposite Patrick Stewart at the Guthrie Theater. The Tender Side of Edward Albee 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z On the older front, Netflix is also adding a handful of films that were formative in their respective genres, including “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” The 7 best movies new to Netflix in May 2019, from "Snowpiercer" to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z As the title suggests, with its nod to Virginia Woolf, “A Room of My Own” means to be a play about how Carl became a writer. Review: ‘A Room of My Own’ Recalls a Greenwich Village of 1979 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z "What would the Virginia Woolf burger be like?" he asks. A life in writing: Slavoj ?i?ek 2011-07-15T21:55:00Z But, speaking of monsters, Tracy Letts showed a hint on one in the seemingly weak-willed history professor George in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Who will win at the Tony Awards? AP predicts 2013-06-07T13:04:09Z A ballet inspired by Virginia Woolf will be the centrepiece of the 2014/15 season at the Royal Opera House. Woolf ballet set for Royal Opera 2014-03-31T13:18:38Z Nor is there any of the seductive poetry in her character’s will to die that we stupidly associate with literary suicides like Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z “A good essay,” Virginia Woolf said, “must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.” Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z Sometimes the sense of choral consciousness produced by this swiftly circulating point of view reminds me of a radically pared-down Virginia Woolf. Unheard Melodies: On Helen Garner’s “The Children’s Bach” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z I became obsessed with biographies of Sylvia Plath, and then Virginia Woolf, and then Evelyn Waugh. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z The novel was initially conceived as a straightforward updating of Mrs Dalloway, and there's a question as to why a novelist would set himself up for comparison with Virginia Woolf. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z But there’s a cheerfulness in the chaos that, curiously, harks back to the days of pre-“Virginia Woolf” absurdism, when the young Albee was still in the thrall of Beckett and Ionesco. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z "A Delicate Balance" has neither the savage vigor of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" nor the stylistic ingenuity of "Three Tall Women." 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But as Virginia Woolf wrote, novels are composed of paragraphs, not sentences. After Disaster, Japan Seals Itself Off From the World in ‘The Emissary’ 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The exception came in 1966, when they were cast against type in Edward Albee's drama of marital angst, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z Sackville-West's most famous affair was with Virginia Woolf, who immortalised their relationship and her family background in the 1928 novel Orlando. Vita Sackville-West's erotic verse to her lover emerges from 'intoxicating night' 2013-04-29T20:24:24Z Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images Jane Austen's admirer Virginia Woolf said that "of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness". Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z While selection is random, the genres range from crime to romance and children’s fiction, including works by Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens. UK's first short-story dispensers to be installed in London's... 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z I like the phrase "the presence of animate thought on the page" enough that I'm going to pretend I didn't just see him call Virginia Woolf basic. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z "I think it's much easier to pick the three greatest dead writers– my three favourites for the 20th century would be Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia Plath." The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z A five-time Academy Award nominee, Taylor won Best Actress twice, for "Butterfield 8" and, in what many called the great performance of her career, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011 2011-03-23T17:21:06Z The exception came in 1966, when the ritzy couple were cast against type in Edward Albee's drama of marital angst, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z To mandarins like Virginia Woolf, it was irredeemably middlebrow; she referred to it as the “Betwixt and Between Company.” A Century of the BBC, a ‘Quasi-Mystical’ Part of England’s Psyche 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z When the three friends finally land in the same room, the battling Katherine and Daniel do their best cut-rate version of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in front of the suffering Nathan. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ and More 2013-06-26T18:50:28Z Lee is among the most acclaimed biographers working now, known for her previous books about Virginia Woolf, Penelope Fitzgerald and others, and here she offers an authoritative biography of the renowned playwright. 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z If you missed Mr. Irwin in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” or in the hilarious “Fool Moon” — or even if you’ve seen this unique performer before — this feels like a must. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Once, long ago, on a trip to Amsterdam with my closest friend, we read aloud from “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” over and over again. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z His first two films were “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “The Graduate” — the first furious, daring and adult, the second zeitgeist-defining. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Mead weaves in bits of Eliot’s own biography, appreciations of subsequent fans like Virginia Woolf and her own life story. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The novel opens when Parke is kidnapped by a group desperate to learn his secret in order to prevent a Poet nicknamed Virginia Woolf from wreaking havoc. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2013-07-18T09:00:00Z “Orlando,” by Virginia Woolf, answers both of those questions. Karin Slaughter: By the Book 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Hanks is the sentimental choice to win, but he faces a tough contender in Tracy Letts who's been nominated for his performance as George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. 2013 Tony awards: Broadway kicks off its Kinky Boots and celebrates the show 2013-06-08T20:06:12Z Merely mention Smyth's habit of dressing in tweeds, smoking cigars and falling in love with Virginia Woolf and you can see why she hasn't become a usable female-composer archetype. Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z Virginia Woolf's most experimental book, The Waves, was partly influenced by Beethoven's quartets; Gunn's is not just influenced by Scottish bagpipe music, it seeks to inhabit it. The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z Tucked just off the square where Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw once lived, it was everything you’d expect a luxury London barber to be. | The Razor’s Edge 2014-03-17T23:00:13Z It makes a kind of sense, then, that Dutton would reanimate her through textual and material sources—including Virginia Woolf’s essay about her, “The Duchess of Newcastle,” lines from which appear in “Margaret the First.” How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s sitcom Ionesco crossed with a “Saturday Night Live” parody of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z It gives a wonderfully rich picture of this area of Cornwall, and painting it through the eyes of Virginia Woolf colored it with such emotion. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z There are likenesses of Orlando, from Virginia Woolf’s novel of that name, and Isabel Archer, the Henry James character. A genteel brush with Victorian themes And who knows that better than George and Martha, the marital snipers who face off with such blistering panache in Edward Albee’s peerless tragicomedy of connubial venom, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 1966 and "Butterfield 8: in 1960, first achieved stardom at the age of 12 in "National Velvet". Elizabeth Taylor improving, but remains in hospital 2011-02-15T23:35:54Z Lee is an important biographer who has written scrupulous lives of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather and Penelope Fitzgerald. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The type in the donated book is thought to be hand-set by Virginia Woolf. Oxfam copy of TS Eliot fetches £4.5k 2013-06-25T13:32:32Z Twenty minutes into this Virginia Woolf spray of venom, Deborah falls to her death off the penthouse terrace balcony, and takes the movie with her. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z But for her fans, it is required reading all the same, telling the story from the other side with recourse to the theories of the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and the novels of Virginia Woolf. Best graphic novels of 2012 2012-11-30T11:00:01Z The awful and the absurd are constants in Albee's career, from the excruciating battles of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to the talking lizards in Seascape. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z Reading one of my late father's Virginia Woolf books, I discovered some wild flowers between the pages. The precious unprinted contents of books 2010-08-13T12:14:00Z She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose. Nicole Kidman: ‘To hear women being believed makes me cry’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Letts might have to get used to those itsy-bitsy tables: He's booked to play George in an open-ended revival of Edward Albee's bruising "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" on Broadway. Playwright Tracy Letts reveals his Midwestern side 2012-10-12T11:53:10Z The screen goddess - whose films included "Cleopatra," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - died in March aged 79. Christie's to sell Elizabeth Taylor art collection 2012-01-16T19:01:04Z "He redefined what our theater could talk about and how," actor Harvey Fierstein tweeted about the man who penned "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "A Delicate Balance." America mourns heroes, rock icons and sporting legends in 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Take, for example, the recent widely acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Casting, connections and getting 'The Goat': Who's right for the role? 2011-04-07T16:57:04Z With safely distant authors Virginia Woolf and Harper Lee on the reading list, there is little danger of any social realism close to home threatening the creaky mechanism of the comedy of manners. Bookworms 2010-06-04T21:45:00Z Like Virginia Woolf defying that divide between prose and poetry. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In “Outsiders,” Gordon tells the stories of five visionary women who disdained convention and made literary history: Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf. Group Biographies Give Trailblazing Historical Women Their Due 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Many believe the long-term decline was down to the critical trashing of his reputation by Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set of modernist writers which continued after his death in 1931. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z This is a famous photograph of Virginia Woolf taken in July 1902 before she was famous; before, in fact, she was Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Yet that still leaves the biggest conundrum of the current season: the acclaimed revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Is Broadway Just for Tourists? 2013-01-02T15:30:11Z With the Burtons aboard, "Virginia Woolf" could not be dismissed as an art house trifle. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z Virginia Woolf bracketed him with Arnold Bennett as "the tradesman of letters". JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z So goes Virginia Woolf’s well-known complaint about “Ulysses,” scribbled into her diary before she had finished reading it. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Five other shows cited the pandemic shutdown in deciding not to reopen this fall — the musicals “Frozen,” “Mean Girls” and “West Side Story” and the plays “Hangmen” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Broadway Grosses Drop 26 Percent as Many Shows Cancel Performances 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z But here Virginia Woolf is at the border, yet to achieve the required transformation. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In Virginia Woolf’s words, “we hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living.” The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Also included are 51 Man Ray photographs of prominent writers and artists like T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Inside Art: Sculpture as Portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011-12-15T21:41:44Z I’m thinking of writers like Proust and Henry James and Virginia Woolf, moving forward to, say, Thomas Bernhard. Garth Greenwell on writing sex in his novel 'What Belongs to You' and the queer literary tradition 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Wilson pointed to Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” saying that creating a space for writers who identify as women and whose voices struggle to be heard is a persistent and necessary need. How 3 women-led arts organizations in the Seattle area make room for diverse voices 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In the early 20th century, Virginia Woolf regularly reviewed fiction for The Times Literary Supplement, where she specialized in harsh verdicts suavely delivered. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z I imagine her mind is constantly whirring on different subjects: Virginia Woolf, the church, third-wave feminism. She Grew Up in a House Without Books. A Teacher Helped Her Realize She Could Write One Herself. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Some of her recent roles include Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at Ford’s Theatre and Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Folger Theatre, to name just a couple. A longtime D.C. actress tackles her first musical, and it’s by Sondheim 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Allen never got one, though; Woody Guthrie never got one either, and neither did Virginia Woolf. The speech Bob Dylan should give to the Swedish Academy 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf described her intensely chopping liver with mincers. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Written in the years between O’Neill’s “Iceman Cometh” and Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” this morality tale, which is more interesting to think about than actually to watch, is another play about delusions. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z Edward Albee’s signature play about matrimonial discord, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” will be the spring entry in the Bagley Wright Theatre. Seattle Rep’s 2013-14 season: ‘The Suit,’ Holmes’ hound and ‘Virginia Woolf’ 2013-05-01T21:49:20Z Virginia Woolf wrote about being unable to write about the life of her body. The violation of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z And after decades, it may be next-to-impossible to get your mother to stop her “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” shtick — especially when the target himself isn’t complaining. Social Q?s: Your Father?s Keeper 2010-06-17T22:36:00Z But others abandoned their plans, including “Hangmen” and a revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Tony Awards for shortened Broadway season will go digital 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z As the days go on, I’m automatically being drawn to more rewarding tasks – reading Virginia Woolf and the New York Times, writing in a journal, maybe even getting back to painting and playing guitar. My breakup with Facebook 2013-01-12T00:30:00Z In another turn, Leonard Woolf, writer Virginia Woolf’s spouse, hears that horn in a recording of the opera and is transported “back to his childhood” and a treasured landscape. ‘Roget’s Ilusion’: wheels within wheels, words within words 2014-05-07T20:16:34Z To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Photograph: ejahnie Good day book people. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week? 2013-06-10T17:22:00Z He is disappointed, he tells me parenthetically, that we didn't do the interview in the hotel's adjacent Virginia Woolf burger bar. A life in writing: Slavoj ?i?ek 2011-07-15T21:55:00Z “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” continues through May 18 at Seattle Rep. More information is at seattlerep.org. Behind the Poster: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Death singing In her excursions to grave sites and house museums, Smith photographed, from left: Virginia Woolf’s bed; Susan Sontag’s grave in Montparnasse Cemetery. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z As Virginia Woolf noted in her essay “On Being Ill,” “English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet or the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache.” How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The prophet of high modernism in the visual arts had been the hugely influential Roger Fry, about whom Virginia Woolf wrote a warily admiring biography. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z The translation I read, a beautiful little book, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1924. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z His favourite dead writer, he says without hesitation, is Virginia Woolf. Mark Haddon: 'It's like getting money for high-quality old rope' 2013-05-04T07:00:00Z Elkin, who learned the pleasures of aimless urban wandering in Paris, combines memoir and travel writing with capsule biographies of walking women like Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and George Sand. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Alluding to a line from the Stephen Spender poem “The Truly Great,” Jamison’s “Touched With Fire” profiles several bipolar artists, including Vincent van Gogh and Virginia Woolf. Filmmaker Paul Dalio mines his bipolar disorder for feature debut 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z But I also like Virginia Woolf’s hero/heroine Orlando, with whom I’ve always begun my undergraduate seminar in biography. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Working on "Virginia Woolf" he recalled mentioning in a pre-production meeting that he knew "this couple at the University of Chicago and they had bookshelves made out of board and bricks." Mike Nichols, directorial superstar with an eye for the 'real thing' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z These days we often think of the 1920s as one of the highpoints of the novel, with practitioners such as DH Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, F Scott Fitzgerald and Herman Hesse. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z People speculate, and in some cases can confirm, that certain writers experienced synesthesia, including Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Virginia Woolf. Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Lilly Borges, 15, who posts videos of her argyle sweaters, classic architecture and Virginia Woolf novels under the Dark Academia tag also found Dark Academia on Tumblr when it was a much smaller community. Academia Lives — on TikTok 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z A Hollywood star since appearing in "National Velvet" at age 12, Taylor won Oscars for her work in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Butterfield 8." Elizabeth Taylor feeling stronger, still in hospital 2011-02-24T05:38:27Z He appeared on Broadway in revivals of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "Awake and Sing!" Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies in NY 2012-02-04T03:53:08Z There’s a famous essay by Virginia Woolf about British literature being stuck in a restive spiral, at once frozen and freed. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z This latest collection of work by James Wood, the commanding, occasionally contentious critic at The New Yorker, includes pieces about many literary greats: Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z I don’t know if this counts since it’s a play adapted as a movie, but I also love Mike Nichols’s film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Amy Schumer: By the Book 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Edward Albee wrote plays that were as compact as “The Zoo Story” and as prolonged as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z “These stories are inconclusive, we say, and proceed to frame a criticism based upon the assumption that stories ought to conclude in a way that we recognize,” Virginia Woolf would later write about Chekhov. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Letts, who won a Pulitzer Prize for writing “August: Osage County” and a Tony for performing in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” will star as the mayor of the fictional, fractious city of Big Cherry. Tracy Letts Will Star in His Own Play on Broadway 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It marks Turner's return to the West End following acclaimed performances in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 2006, and The Graduate. Turner to return to West End stage 2014-01-24T16:17:42Z Michael Cunningham, who came here in connection with his novel “The Hours,” in which Virginia Woolf is a principal character, said that Woolf’s house looks like a graduate student’s apartment compared with her sister’s home. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “And I don’t know any movie that has done that before. I don’t know who has. Virginia Woolf maybe?” Finding emo: why the metaphysical mouldbreaker Inside Out will send kids out of their mind 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The book of the modernist poem, dating from 1923, was published by Hogarth Press, founded by Eliot's friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Oxfam copy of TS Eliot fetches £4.5k 2013-06-25T13:32:32Z In a 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick lamented the overexposure of its most prominent members — the “exhaustion” of Virginia Woolf and “the draining” of the writer Lytton Strachey. Life Lessons From the Bloomsbury Group’s Wardrobe 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z This is Virginia Woolf poised at the threshold of her remarkable career as both a writer and publisher. Virginia Woolf: Her life in pictures 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Books about mourning have doubled as obsessive studies of Virginia Woolf, mushroom-gathering, training a young hawk. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Those limitations obsessed Virginia Woolf in her fiction, as she struggled to find a language for the imbalance between our roaming minds and the fragments of communication. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z And then, too, as Damrosch points out, there was no George Eliot, no Virginia Woolf: “It never ceased to be a club for men.” The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z I happened to be seated next to five members of a real book club, and they regaled me — unbidden — with stories of their own co-ed meltdown when the group tackled Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.” Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z Number of books in the show written by Virginia Woolf. A sister’s bookish art 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes as a writer you just find yourself in a pocket of riches, and I knew that in the house where Virginia Woolf visited her sister she often brought her dog Pinker along. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z A glimpse at the work of film director Mike Nichols, who has died at the age of 83 and made seminal movies including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In pictures: Mike Nichols films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z She took the best actress Oscar for her performance as the venomous Martha in "Virginia Woolf" and again stole the awards show, this time by not showing up at the ceremony. Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-24T10:32:15Z Indeed, she’s not given enough credit for being a high modernist, the equal to the modernists she admired and wrote about in graduate school: Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Going back to when you were doing “Virginia Woolf,” did that experience change things for you? Carrie Coon, the Simultaneous Star of ‘The Leftovers’ and ‘Fargo’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The painter and designer Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf’s older sister, never kept a diary, but Priya Parmar’s intimate biographical novel imagines what might have happened if she had. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf talk about this: if you want to say something, say not the thing itself, but the adjacent thing. Mark Cousins: the kids stay in the picture 2013-05-20T18:00:02Z Virginia Woolf, because she made life possible for so many women who write. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Michael Cunningham is possessed by a spirit, one whom a good deal of contemporary writers find it hard to shake: Virginia Woolf walks the hallways of his novels. If you can stomach only one COVID closure novel, make it Michael Cunningham's 'Day' 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z She places him in line with the “wayward Englishness” of such figures as painters J.M.W Turner and Francis Bacon, authors Virginia Woolf and William Blake and punk impresario Malcolm McLaren. Review: 'The Storms of Jeremy Thomas' captures a film producer's iconoclasm 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z She wrote it from Palm Springs on March 28, 1933, to her longtime worshiper Virginia Woolf, who had immortalized her in “Orlando.” An L.A. literary scholar confesses: California was my first love 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf’s 1928 satire “Orlando: A Biography” was her first big success, the one that allowed her to buy a car and continue writing. The eight best films we saw at Telluride 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf's personal copy of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, has been fully digitised for the first time. Virginia Woolf: Personal copy of debut novel resurfaces 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z As a teenager, few works hit me like Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Things fall apart between a married couple and a best friend in ‘The Three of Us’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “Then buy me new pants, come on, Virginia Woolf. Don’t look so doom and gloom. You don’t know my life. I’m fine. I’m great.” Opinion: My son the vandal — and the untreated, unaddressed epidemic of mental illness 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z And can we just stipulate the sheer deliciousness of anybody writing to Virginia Woolf from Palm Springs? An L.A. literary scholar confesses: California was my first love 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z A friend said, “I’m reading a book by that woman who walked into the river with the stones in her pocket,” and that’s how he described reading a book by Virginia Woolf! Our monsters, ourselves: Claire Dederer explains her sympathy for the canceled 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Virginia Woolf famously asked for a room of her own, but Woolf was childless. Review | Turns out, your favorite artist is a creep or a criminal. Now what? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Tom offers her a writing space in his “rooms” at Oxford, and Jane gets to live the life of an expatriate in the land of Virginia Woolf, W.H. The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs wrote her debut novel about a pop star. It's not her 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The conductor’s cerebral pursuits, complicated interior life and international dangerous liaisons will be relatable to precisely no one, unless you’re Sylvia Plath or maybe Virginia Woolf. Opinion: Oscar's 2023 polarized picks — moody and cloudy vs. box office flamboyance 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Many of them are boldface names from the queer and feminist cultural past — Virginia Woolf, Sarah Bernhardt and Colette, to name just a few — while others are less famous. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z With a university degree in English and a passion for poetry — he treasures Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath — he became an elementary-school teacher in the late 1970s. The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z In some ways, Shree’s winding epic appears to parallel the works of Western literary giants like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf. Review | ‘Tomb of Sand’ meditates on the cultural diffusion that permeates India 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z She said the intensity of performing in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” left her emotionally drained and in need of a break nine months after its debut in 1962. Melinda Dillon, actress who played crisis and comedy, dies at 83 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z In just a matter of weeks, she landed one of four parts in the Broadway debut of Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Melinda Dillon, 2-Time Oscar Nominee, Is Dead at 83 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z This question isn’t new; Virginia Woolf famously declared the need for a room of one’s own; so did Alice Munro, in her story “The Office,” and Doris Lessing, in “To Room Nineteen.” Review | ‘Forbidden Notebook’ is a slyly subversive novel by a writer once banned 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z For generations, intelligent literary women have been drawn to Virginia Woolf for her complex, independent-minded works such as “A Room of One’s Own.” The book world needs practical dreamers. Enter publisher-novelist Martin Riker 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z And he fathered Virginia Woolf, who would go on to unshackle the written word from the constraints of time. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “I was in ‘Virginia Woolf’ and I just went crazy; it was really that simple,” she said in a 1976 interview with the New York Times. Melinda Dillon, actress who played crisis and comedy, dies at 83 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Its name originates from a passage by Virginia Woolf, who once described everyday individuals as “modest mouse-coloured people.” Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse drummer, dead at 45 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Penguin has worked with celebrated authors including Sylvia Plath, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Penguin Random House boss resigns after Simon & Schuster deal fails 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z “The Zoo Story,” perhaps the most famous one-act of all time, launched his career in 1959 and still retains an honored place alongside his larger-scale masterpieces, such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Corrin's comments come as they prepare to take to the stage in an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, which was published in 1928 and explores gender identity. Emma Corrin: Oscar categories should be gender neutral 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett were early admirers. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “The Furrows” is an English major’s dream date: Serpell taps influences across genres, from Virginia Woolf to Dashiell Hammett to Toni Morrison. Namwali Serpell probes the disorienting flow of grief in ‘The Furrows’ 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Taylor came in after the premier of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Madame Wu, famed Westside restaurateur who served the stars, dies at 106 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The expression is based on an observation by Virginia Woolf, who once noted that many anonymous poems turned out to be written by women. Susan Unterberg honored by MacDowell for her arts advocacy 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Better yet, fast forward to any of Stevenson’s narrations of Virginia Woolf. How the narrator can make or break your next audiobook 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In order to tap deeper into her uncompromised self, she had to locate, in Virginia Woolf’s mold, a studio of one’s own. Kate Bush always sounded like the future. With a boost from 'Stranger Things,' the future is now 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z “Fun is not the right word, but there’s something ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ about the enjoyment of each other’s cruelty. Claire Foy and Paul Bettany land punches physical and emotional in 'British Scandal' 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z I was struck by the fact that the trial began as Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened at the Geffen. Column: Will the Depp/Heard hell trial never end? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z A feeling of pantomime occasionally haunts this staging of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — as though the performers were trying on Albee’s classic for a lark. Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z I had, as Virginia Woolf said, a room of my own — and I still could not make progress on the book I had been writing. The everyday creativity of mothering 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The Mitchells veer between sweet — he calls her “Martha Marshmallow,” she calls him “cupcake” — and sour; some of their scenes play like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” set in a fancy Washington apartment. How do you make D.C. drama into enjoyable TV? Throw out the history books 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Flockhart recalls a fascination with the film and says that when she was working on “The Birdcage” with Nichols, she would every day pepper him with questions about “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Calista Flockhart on playing a storied role in Edward Albee's theatrical battle of wits 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Maybe the Depp/Heard trial is “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” for meme culture, with its preference for instant regurgitation rather than actual digestion. Column: Will the Depp/Heard hell trial never end? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z One of the landmarks of 20th century American drama, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” doesn’t need an excuse to be dusted off. Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z TS Eliot, writing in 1923, believed it was "the most important expression which the present age has found" but Virginia Woolf described it as "tosh". Ulysses: £1 charity shop book set to fetch £800 at auction 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Why Virginia Woolf matters: What one critic learned from annotating “Mrs. Dalloway” Review: Kathryn Davis turned grief into a glimmering memoir like none you've ever read 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Tsushima expresses Takiko’s confidence through her appreciation of nature — to borrow from Virginia Woolf, her “moments of being.” Review: What a 1980 Japanese novel about a single mom foresaw about pandemic loneliness 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z To this day, she eludes categorization; to say that she wrote about food is like saying that Virginia Woolf and James Joyce wrote about dinner parties. What We Write About When We Write About Food 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Albee divides “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” into three acts, the last of which is called “The Exorcism.” Review: An oddly cast Martha and George expose fragility in Edward Albee’s shatterproof play 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z And although she has four previous Academy Award nominations, her sole win has been as Virginia Woolf in 2002’s “The Hours.” They love Lucy: How Lucie Arnaz helped Nicole Kidman find the essence of the comic icon 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z It is borrowed from the middle section of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” in which a decade is collapsed into a dozen and a half pages. Review: Kathryn Davis turned grief into a glimmering memoir like none you've ever read 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z They wondered: How had their brilliant debutante changed after six years in Europe, hobnobbing with the likes of Virginia Woolf and others in the famous Bloomsbury Group? How a struggling socialite convinced the world alcoholism is a disease 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Yeats and Virginia Woolf, blend times, emotions, memories and bodily sensations in ways that reflect our own ambiguous plotlines. Perspective | The pandemic has given us a bad case of narrative vertigo. Literature can help. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z She mentions Virginia Woolf’s “angel in the house” — the one that Woolf had to kill to function as a writer. Review | Art reflects how we see women; now women are influencing how we see art 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z When we read “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, for example, I was surprised to discover something I had never noticed in earlier readings: It’s all about the 1918 flu pandemic. Perspective | My pandemic book club changed the way I think about literature — and community 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “I didn’t know where or what I was, really. I lived in a body but there was part of me that seemed, like Virginia Woolf, capable of functioning without one.” Review: Kathryn Davis turned grief into a glimmering memoir like none you've ever read 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z When Frannie’s class complains about the dullness of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” she asks, “How many ladies have to die to make it good?” Analysis | Jane Campion’s masterful ‘Power of the Dog’ had a fascinating and much maligned precursor 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z It was a technique that James Joyce and Virginia Woolf would bring to perfection, but not for another 50 years. Review | Inspired by real-life murderers, Dostoevsky wrote a new kind of novel 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote an essay, a riff on an essay by Virginia Woolf, about how the subject of all novels is the ordinary, humble, flawed human being. Opinion | Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z There is a built-in tether binding some relationships, Strout suggests, like the “invisible threads” Virginia Woolf spun out across London to keep her characters connected in “Mrs. Dalloway.” Review: How Elizabeth Strout's simplicity runs rings around more pyrotechnic novelists 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It will feature key figures from the Bloomsbury set - a group of prominent artists, writers and thinkers from the first half of the 20th Century - including Virginia Woolf and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. National Portrait Gallery's art to tour England 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z “We think back through our mothers if we are women,” Virginia Woolf wrote in “A Room of One’s Own.” The 30 books we're most anticipating this fall 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z She opens with a reverie in which she encounters Virginia Woolf in heaven; she considers not just Sidney but also Shakespeare, Montaigne and Walter Benjamin. Review: Before the superhero flick came the escapist pastoral. A writer’s defense of the wispy form 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Guibert, in a journal about a harrowing hospital stay, quoted Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill”: “But of all this daily drama of the body, there is no record.” ‘Survival energy’: How COVID-19 and pregnancy fueled a fierce new book 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z And what should we make of Virginia Woolf’s casual use of the n-word in her description of an approach to labor? Review | Wrestling with the complexities of music, art and reparations 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He began by trying to convince two of his friends and literary soulmates, Judith Thurmond and Hermione Lee, who are well known for their literary biographies of Isak Dinesen and Virginia Woolf, respectively. From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z While playing with and even inventing forms, Chang, chair of Antioch’s creative writing program, also makes overt references to other poets: Sylvia Plath, Brian Teare and Virginia Woolf. How grief became path-breaking poetry in Victoria Chang's 'Obit' 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Unlike James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, his early plots were decidedly low-concept, dealing in domestic dramas in Michigan or bitter warfare in Europe. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z |
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