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Helen Elliott

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 4, 2026
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Jul 15, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Helen Elliott

    This 700-page biography, 40 years in the making, is a miracle (opens the original)

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    One day in eighth grade, Nicholas Boggs arrived at his Washington school dressed in a suit. He was giving a presentation on the writer and activist James Baldwin. It might have been around the time Baldwin died. Baldwin was only 63, but he had lived hard: partying, drinking, smoking, lots of sex and endless loving. Loving is the point. Baldwin needed to be in love and spent much of his life doing exactly this, anguishing though it could be – so much so that his biographer, that sweet, earnest bo

  2. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Helen Elliott

    This novel is ridiculous, delectably silly – and a sheer joy to read (opens the original)

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    Always read the epigraph before you start a novel. It’s the author giving you stage directions and a 20-word epigraph might save you 80,000 words of reading. This isn’t the case with the epigraph to Villa Coco: “The trick to life is knowing what you want”. These immortal words are from the long dead lips of Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony. Portraits show her to be clever, warm and happy. She never married and died in 1863 at the age of 80. That epigraph made me want to quarter an apple, fold-up

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