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The Eulogy of The Novelist: What comes after the death of the author
Can we ever really know our favourite authors? Art by Ellie Stephenson
May 9, 2021
If, as Joan Didion said, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live,” then we tell the stories of others in order to better know how to die. How to leave a legacy.
The biography is one such device. Last month, publisher W. W. Norton permanently halted distribution of Blake Bailey’s recent biography of American novelist Philip Roth after allegations surfaced that Bailey had groomed, harassed, and raped multiple women. It’s hard not to relate these revelations to one of the main criticisms from which his biography suffered – that he was uncritical of Roth’s misogyny, claims of which soured and followed Roth for much of his career. In fact, Ross Miller’s very frankness about Roth’s misogyny led Roth to end an agreement with Miller to initially write his biography. But any poetic justice in
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Ralph Fiennes is to direct and star in a solo theatre adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets that will tour the UK this summer.
A co-production by Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate in Northampton, Four Quartets will be staged first at those venues in May and June, then visit Oxford Playhouse and Cambridge Arts Theatre and other destinations yet to be announced.
Fiennes, who recently played archaeologist Basil Brown in the Bafta-nominated Sutton Hoo drama The Dig, was last on stage in Beat the Devil at the Bridge theatre, London, in 2020. He portrayed the playwright David Hare in a monologue detailing Hare’s experience of contracting coronavirus and the government’s response to the pandemic.
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DVD: T S Eliot - The Search for Happiness
Competent documentary revises the poet s reputation as a callous husband
by Graham FullerMonday, 01 March 2021
The mermaid singing: newlyweds Vivienne and Tom Eliot at 18 Crawford Mansions, Marylebone, in 1916
“How it went with the women,” Martin Amis’s phrase for what most straight men are likely to contemplate in the evenings of their lives, would have made an ideal alternative subtitle for the 50-minute documentary
T S Eliot: The Search for Happiness.