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Cillian Murphy is sorry for everything in poignant post-apocalyptic film By Paul Glynn image copyrightManchester International Festival In All of This Unreal Time, a short film that gets its world premiere at the Manchester International Festival, actor Cillian Murphy plays a man on an existential mission. Striding through the empty lockdown streets of an anonymous city at night, his nameless character reflects on shame, guilt and masculinity, and poetically berates himself for not having treat...

Last modified on Tue 29 Jun 2021 03.59 EDT When Max Porter and Cillian Murphy first worked together, Murphy got so wired from performing that he couldn’t sleep. The project was a theatrical adaptation of Porter’s novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, in which a grieving husband and father of two sons is repeatedly visited by a giant crow. Now, the pair have created All of This Unreal Time, a hybrid of film, music and installation. Neither has yet seen the final mix, but Porter says ...

The novelist talked to Max Porter at the Borris House festival’s Spring Series of online talks

The star of Peaky Blinders on his late colleague, how he convinced the producers to cast him rather than Jason Statham as Tommy Shelby – and returning to the monster-movie genre in A Quiet Place Part II

The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the years fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid Eight of the best: this years top novels The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆ Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbe...

From Sally Rooney to Raven Leilani, female novelists have captured the literary zeitgeist. But is this cultural shift something to celebrate or rectify?

The upcoming raffle for Sisters Uncut and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups also includes prizes from Caleb Femi, Olivia Laing, Reni Eddo-Lodge, and Candice Carty-Williams

Leilani’s debut “stood out for the compelling narrative voice, and the unblinking quality of the writing,” said chair of judges Namita Gokhale, who, with her fellow judges, selected Luster from a shortlist which also featured Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa, and Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji. “It was a difficult decision as we had an exceptionally brilliant shortlist – all the books were potential winners. After many conversations and long de...

Russell Hoban: Turtle Diary; Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer; The Medusa Frequency – worth rejoicing in The American writer’s first eight novels for adults have been reissued as Penguin Modern Classics, offering a banquet of whimsical delights ‘Curiosity, wonder and a world-encompassing empathy’: Russell Hoban in March 1993. Photograph: Fairfax Media Archives/Getty Images ‘Curiosity, wonder and a world-encompassing empathy’: Russell Hoban in March 1993. Photograph:...

Daily Times April 29, 2021 Manchester International Festival (MIF), returns from July 1-18 with a vibrant programme of original new work from across the spectrum of visual and performing arts and music by artists from over 20 countries Artists include Angélique Kidjo, Akram Khan, Arlo Parks, Aaron and Bryce Dessner, Boris Charmatz, Cerys Matthews, Christine Sun Kim, Cillian Murphy, Deborah Warner, Forensic Architecture, Ibrahim Mahama, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Laure Prouvost, Marta Minujín, Lemn S...