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The secret herstory: what happened to Donna Tartt's women?

Published: 25 Sep 2019
Best culture of the 21st century The 100 best books of the 21st century

Published: 21 Sep 2019

Top 10s From Tales of the City to Tipping the Velvet: top 10 books about coming out

Novelist Kate Davies picks the best books about a task that never happens just once

Published: 20 Feb 2019

Top 10s Top 10 fictional booksellers

From Italo Calvino to Iain Sinclair and Alison Bechdel, literary retailers have been at the centre of some wild, dark dramas

Published: 12 Dec 2018

Top 10s Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition

From Douglas Adams to Oliver Sacks, the standup comedian reveals some of the writers that have helped him try to work out what makes us tick

Published: 17 Oct 2018

The week in theatre: Fun Home; One for Sorrow; Undaunted; Windrush: 492 – review

Acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel comes to life in a remarkable new musical, a stranger menaces liberal London, and a high-wire suffragette thrills

Published: 1 Jul 2018

4 out of 5 stars.

Fun Home review – Bechdel memoir takes stage musical in new directions
4 out of 5 stars.

This adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel is a beautifully performed mix of memory-play and strip-cartoon

Published: 28 Jun 2018

Wonder women: how this summer's TV passes the Bechdel test

Shows such as Orange is the New Black, GLOW and Claws allow their female characters to do more than just play the girlfriend, signaling important progress

Published: 23 Jun 2017

Banned Books Week 2016: the 10 most challenged titles – in pictures

As the American Libraries Association’s annual celebration of the right to read kicks off, take a look through the titles most frequently ‘challenged’ in 2015, and some of the reasons behind the calls to ban them

Gallery

Published: 26 Sep 2016

The women's blog Why the Bechdel test doesn’t (always) work

Samantha Ellis

If this simple gauge of gender inequality in film has Twilight winning over Gravity, there’s obviously something wrong. As a feminist playwright, I’ve found another solution

Published: 20 Aug 2016

Published: 20 Aug 2016

US promotes gay rights at United Nations with Broadway musical visit

US ambassador takes 17 UN envoys to see award-winning play Fun Home, centred around lesbian character and her gay father

Published: 2 Mar 2016

The not-so-secret history of comics drawn by women

The head of the festival that awards comics’ most prestigious prize – the Grand Prix – claimed that women don’t appear in the history of comics. He’s wrong

Published: 10 Jan 2016

So you'd like to get into highbrow comics. Here's where to start

From superheroes to memoirs, there’s never been a richer time for comic books. But where does one start with a genre that is exploding so quickly?

Published: 17 Dec 2015

Duke students say Alison Bechdel novel is 'insensitive to conservative beliefs'

Incoming freshmen refuse to read graphic novel Fun Home, which deals with sex, sexuality and suicide and was assigned for summer reading

Published: 25 Aug 2015

Tony Awards: Fun Home and The Curious Incident of the Dog win big

Lesbian coming-of-age musical and tale of boy with Asperger’s share top honours – and five awards apiece – at celebration of Broadway’s brightest and best

Published: 8 Jun 2015
Tony awards 2015: Fun Home takes coveted best musical prize – as it happened

The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time named best play, while The King and I and Skylight win for best revivals

Published: 7 Jun 2015

4 out of 5 stars.

Fun Home review – Alison Bechdel's childhood trauma revisited with songs
4 out of 5 stars.

Based on a graphic novel memoir about growing up gay in a funeral home, this smart, sophisticated Broadway musical includes one astonishing performance

Published: 20 Apr 2015

The Bechdel test: which pop songs pass it?

Not many is the answer, but Elliphant’s One More is a rare and genuine celebration of girl power

Published: 10 Oct 2014

My hero My hero: Alison Bechdel by Elizabeth McCracken

The graphic memoirist's art is beautiful, exact yet somehow familiar, writes Elizabeth McCracken

Published: 19 Sep 2014
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel ‘in shock’ after winning $625,000 ‘genius’ grant

The graphic memoirist is among 21 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation no-strings-attached stipend, writes Alison Flood

Published: 17 Sep 2014

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