Virginia Woolf

‘Evict the Charleston Scroungers’: row in Lewes over the Bloomsbury group’s legacy

A debate is raging over the future of a council building used for art exhibitions as public services in the Sussex town are squeezed

Vanessa Thorpe

16, Mar, 2025 @10:00 AM

Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour

Killian Fox

02, Mar, 2025 @9:00 AM

We show we’re human when we put pen to paper | Letters

Letters: Students of literature in future will have far less to go on if handwriting becomes obsolete, writes Dr Claire Nicholson. Plus letters from Michael Daley, Alan Sekers, Alan Gough, Dr Emile de Sousa and Marie Paterson

24, Jan, 2025 @5:41 PM

Being dangerously thin is back in. Is the body-positivity era officially over? | Arwa Mahdawi

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons put their Botoxed heads together and decreed this the ‘ballet body’ era

Arwa Mahdawi

12, Oct, 2024 @1:00 PM

A Virginia Woolf Barbie? Is this really the most inappropriate doll of all time?

Mattel has already produced plastic fantastic versions of Maya Angelou and Queen Camilla. What’s so special about the author of Orlando?

07, Oct, 2024 @1:36 PM

Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

05, Oct, 2024 @3:11 PM

Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – brilliant tales of beasts

Greek myths inspire a masterly short-story collection that takes in ghosts, gods and meditations on mortality

Nina Allan

31, Aug, 2024 @6:30 AM

Orlando, My Political Biography review – inventive spin on Virginia Woolf’s novel

Trans director Paul B Preciado uses Woolf’s classic text as a literary exploration and an intimate personal journey to powerful effect

Wendy Ide

07, Jul, 2024 @10:30 AM

Orlando, My Political Biography review – Woolf’s trans hero gets a 21st-century mashup

Tricksy documentary spin on 1928 novel weaves fact and fiction to reconsider and reimagine the time-travelling story for our time

Peter Bradshaw

02, Jul, 2024 @10:00 AM

Rural Hours by Harriet Baker review – the country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

Three writers’ pastoral years are beautifully observed in this group biography but seem little more than tangential to their work

Rachel Cooke

01, Apr, 2024 @6:00 AM

In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: walking the west Cornwall coast to the Badger pub

Starting in arty St Ives, this route takes in a hill the writer ‘staggered up’ in 1909, the lighthouse that inspired her novel, and finishes in a pub she loved

Phoebe Taplin

17, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM