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Alex O'Connell

London

Associate Editor at The Observer

Journalist; former Arts editor @thetimes

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Articles

  • Juliette Binoche interview 'I am who I am with all my flaws'

    1 month 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.

  • The artist sketching the messy aftermath of war

    2 months ago | 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.

  • Isabella Rossellini: ‘I don’t know how to reconcile having an organic farm with doing Botox’

    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.

  • National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times

    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.

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Alex O'Connell
Alex O'Connell @aoconnell
11 May 25

⁦@sarahmanavis⁩ is great on the pitfalls of influencers moving into telly in ⁦@ObserverUK⁩ https://t.co/zG4Iipg2oi

Alex O'Connell
Alex O'Connell @aoconnell
11 May 25

⁦@williamnhutton⁩ on why Labour needs to be braver ⁦@ObserverUK⁩ https://t.co/gu7shEL7l0

Alex O'Connell
Alex O'Connell @aoconnell
11 May 25

Shocking story from ⁦@RSylvester1⁩ on why crazily expensive visas are making it harder to recruit the top scientists who would otherwise come and work here ⁦@TheCrick⁩ and elsewhere ⁦⁩ ⁦@ObserverUK⁩ https://t.co/xSWStgVUjN