Joyce Carol Oates
Peter Robinson obituary
Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world
Peter Guttridge
14, Oct, 2022 @4:44 PM
Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth
Lauren Mechling
28, Sep, 2022 @7:01 AM
Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters
Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
25, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook review – an imagined life of Marilyn Monroe
Jayne Atkinson resists the cliches of the film star’s breathy voice in a tough, fictionalised tale of abuse and fame
Fiona Sturges
23, Sep, 2022 @9:00 AM
Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film
Glossy horror perpetuates the tradition of portraying the brilliant actor as an infantile, sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity
Peter Bradshaw
21, Sep, 2022 @12:00 PM
‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set
Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
08, Sep, 2022 @3:20 PM
‘Every time I write, it’s like the first time’: Joyce Carol Oates on her 61 novels, Twitter storms and widowhood
At 84, Oates still knows how to strike a nerve. She talks about Babysitter – her new book inspired by a Detroit serial killer – loneliness and her controversial tweet about white male writers
Paula Cocozza
01, Sep, 2022 @5:00 AM
The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth
Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction
Anthony Summers
29, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM
Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn Monroe biopic released
Netflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor
Benjamin Lee
16, Jun, 2022 @2:26 PM
Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?
From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?
Catherine Shoard
13, May, 2022 @1:48 PM
Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfie
As Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that could have done with one
Matthew Cantor
09, Apr, 2022 @7:00 AM
Night, Neon and Other Stories of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates review – nuanced, not neat, thrillers
Embracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author’s latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing
Ben East
27, Mar, 2022 @3:00 PM
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