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Fiammetta Rocco

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 22, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Fiammetta Rocco

    Marlon James: ‘I knew how to disappear’ (opens the original)

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    In the autumn of 2015, the judges of the Booker Prize gathered to select their winner in a boardroom by the River Thames in London. Although I wasn’t a judge that year, unexpectedly I happened to be there too. At the head of the table sat Michael Wood, the recently retired professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton and a veteran of faculty infighting. Wood is a film critic as well as an academic. As the chair, he was the first to arrive, and he began by regaling his fellow ju

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Fiammetta Rocco

    The Master’s Voice (opens the original)

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    On New Year’s Day 1839, when she was 19 and had been on the throne for less than two years, Queen Victoria tried to discuss Charles Dickens’s new novel, Oliver Twist, which was still being serialised, with her prime minister, Lord Melbourne. She made little headway with the great grouch. “It’s all among Workhouses and Coffin Makers and Pickpockets,” he declared. “I don’t like that low debasing style.” It seems, though, that the diminutive monarch who would reign another six decad

  3. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Fiammetta Rocco

    Putting Ibsen’s characters on trial (opens the original)

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    Christiane Jatahy, the director of A Trial – after An Enemy of the People, which opened this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, was born under the Brazilian military dictatorship of the late 1960s. And she lived through Jair Bolsonaro’s considerably more recent presidency, which picked apart protections for indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest and helped accelerate its deforestation. Defiance and rebellion define Jatahy’s work. In 2022, when she was awarded the Golden Lion fo

  4. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Fiammetta Rocco

    Why do we keep retelling ‘The Odyssey’? (opens the original)

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    Homer was made for Hollywood, you could say. Lantern-jawed men, sexy witches, casts of thousands, audiences holding their collective breath. In a 1954 cinematic epic about the end of the Trojan war and the challenges that Homer’s hero has to overcome before he is able to make his way back home, Kirk Douglas’s Odysseus has to defeat the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, outwit Circe, the enchantress whose spell turns his sailors into swine, and outsmart the Sirens, the deadly birdlike women who lu

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