Alex O'Connell

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alex O'Connell

At one of the world's most important historical sites, controversial director Gabriel Zuchtriegel has radical plans to protect its future I am perching on a kerb in Pompeii (built high so that Pompeiian sandals might avoid the street-level sewage) waiting to enter a newly excavated house, not yet open to the public, in Region IX of the city. The bright sunshine that blesses southern Italy in February exposes furrows on the ancient stones made by carriages that drove through the streets in AD 79.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alex O'Connell

Forty years after her Cannes debut, the actress will be president of the festival's jury - a 'picky' approach to her career has paid offJuliette Binoche's Penelope waits 20 agonising years for Ralph Fiennes's Odysseus to come back from the Trojan War, in her latest film, The Return. During that time she weaves cloth and bats off meathead suitors who have come to the Greek island of Ithaca to win her hand.

Feb 22, 2025 | yahoo.com | Alex O'Connell

Lucy BerryWe talk of old souls, but the illustrator George Butler is truly a man from another time – his solid name, BBC English, russet beard and gentle good manners make him appear straight out of central casting for a Great War epic. Not for him the churn of modern journalism – the frantic filing, the snapping, the immediate posting.

Jan 13, 2025 | yahoo.com | Alex O'Connell

Imagine if Clarkson’s Farm was on Long Island, not the Cotswolds golden triangle, run not by Jeremy Clarkson but a celebrated Italian actor and feminist who speaks three languages, has an impeccable heritage and earned a master’s in animal behaviour and conservation. Isabella Rossellini has just returned to Mama Farm in Brookhaven, 90 minutes’ drive from Manhattan, for festivities with her family.

May 31, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Alex O'Connell

National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of TimesLocalización: American literature: A journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography, ISSN 0002-9831, Vol. 96, Nº 2, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Pain), págs. 269-295Idioma: inglésTexto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)ResumenIn light of abortion’s recurrent political centrality in the United States, examining abortion narratives remains critically urgent.