Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Wuthering Heights / The tragedy of Heathcliff

A windswept moor becomes the stage for Heathcliff and Catherine’s tragic bond, where love, obsession, and loss blur the line between the living and the dead in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights: the tragedy of Heathcliff

Obsession, social injustice, and the search for redemption in Emily Brontë’s dark masterpiece

20 MARCH 2026,

TRACEY MADELEY JONES

Many readers view Wuthering Heights as their least favorite Brontë novel, arguing that none of the characters are likeable. This begs the question, do we have to like the characters to enjoy a book? Can we still find sympathy and empathy in a dark tale of obsession, revenge, and injustice?

An artistic portrayal of the evolution of the vampire myth—Dracula’s dark, Gothic menace contrasts with the humanized, romantic figures of modern vampire lore, symbolizing the shift from fear to fascination

Monster to muse: the evolution of the vampire

How Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight transformed fear into fascination across centuries of storytelling

20 JANUARY 2026,

TRACEY MADELEY JONES

Structurally, Bram Stoker’s Dracula follows some of the conventions of previous Gothic novels using diaries, letters, and personal accounts. Despite the title, the reader sees very little of the eponymous character, but he is an ever-present driving force in the novel. The story begins with Jonathan Harker’s journal regarding his trip to Count Dracula’s home, where he is to finalise some property transactions. Before he even arrives, the reception he receives at the mention of the Count’s name causes fear and suspicion; people make the sign of the cross, and crosses are lining the side of the roads. Fear and superstition in the eighteenth century were often associated with simple, uneducated people; therefore, it is appropriate that both Jonathan and the reader begin as sceptics.

Tom McGrath
Freelance artist

More ugly people

I like drawing ugly people, they offer so much more potential for interesting lines than pretty people, hence my sketchbooks are full of them. Here’s some ugly folks I’ve drawn recently.

Madame de Sévigné / Parisian letters

Anonyme, Le marché aux fleurs, quai de la Mégisserie (detail), vers 1680. Courtesy of Musée Carnavalet

Madame de Sévigné. Parisian letters

15 Apr — 23 Aug 2026 at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, France

24 FEBRUARY 2026

The Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris is presenting an exhibition devoted to Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, the Marquise de Sévigné (1626- 1696) on the four hundredth anniversary of her birth. Organized in collaboration with a panel of experts comprising specialists on her work and the period, the exhibition is based on a fresh critical approach dedicated to the epistolary work of this renowned figure. It brings together over two hundred pieces: paintings, objects, and drawings, both from Carnavalet’s collections and large French public and private collections alike.

KATE UPTON GETS PATRIOTIC IN THE DAILY SUMMER COVER SHOOT

Published on June 30, 2017

Kate Upton on The Daily Summer July 4th, 2017 Cover

Quentin Blake reveals he has not received a penny in royalties from Steven Spielberg blockbuster

The BFG, as played by Mark Rylance in last year's animated blockbuster CREDIT: DISNEY FILM

With his wispy grey hair, shaggy sideburns, big nose and brown waistcoat, the image of Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant is as instantly recognisable to millions as his giant peach, child-catching Twits and a certain top-hatted confectionery magnate

Howard Schatz

BALLET

Lila Deliro

WOMEN

David Chase says Sopranos was born From Family pain

DAVID CHASE SAYS SOPRANOS WAS BORN FROM FAMILY PAIN

MARRY WILLIAMS

Creator opens up about trauma behind iconic series and new film

David Chase Reflects on Personal Inspiration

March 28, 2026 – David Chase is shedding new light on the deeply personal origins of The Sopranos, revealing that the groundbreaking series was, in part, a way to process painful experiences with his mother.

David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy'

Interview

David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy'

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As his mobster-in-therapy masterpiece is named the best TV of the century, its creator says he was just thrashing out his own issues with his domineering, suffocating mother

Emma Brockes

Monday 16 September 2018

The first image David Chase had in mind for the show that became The Sopranoswas a closeup of Tony Soprano opening his eyes, “waking up for the day”. That scene ended up falling later in the pilot. The opening scene, as any of the show’s superfans will happily inform you, watches Tony eyeing up a sculpture in a therapist’s waiting room with baffled rage. The show is 20 years old this year, and if that makes you feel ancient, “think how I feel,” says creator David Chase, who, at 74, is ferocious looking, with beady black eyes and the intense, long-suffering air of the protagonist whose name has become synonymous with his own.

David Chase

Interview

‘I wrote The Sopranos to get over my mother wishing me dead’: David Chase on his mob masterpiece – and his new LSD epic

Will the great TV writer ever top his mega hit? He talks us through his new series about the CIA’s attempts to weaponise LSD – and reveals why James Gandolfini called him ‘Satan’

‘Unapologetically schmaltzy’ / How Love Story became Disney+’s most-streamed drama ever

Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F Kennedy Jr in Love Story on Disney

‘Unapologetically schmaltzy’: how Love Story became Disney+’s most-streamed drama ever

Series about the lives and deaths of Carolyn Bessette and JFK Jr is ‘prestige television without the usual weight’

Morwenna Ferrier

Fashion and lifestyle editor

Fri 27 Mar 2026

The plane vanishes. Families are told. Ashes are scattered. So ends Love Story, Ryan Murphy’s schlocky, glossy nine-part melodrama about the doomed marriage between Carolyn Bessette and John F Kennedy Jr. Yet one thing is clear: the myth of Camelot – or at least this version – still captivates.

Tuesday, March 31, 2026