Lucy Knight

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lucy Knight

When Jeanine Cummins logs in to our video call, I am surprised to see that the profile picture that pops up before her video loads is the Spanish-language cover of her book American Dirt. I had assumed, given the vitriol that novel attracted when it was published in 2020, that she would be trying to distance herself from it. For the first year after its publication, that was the case, she tells me from a light-filled, bookshelf-lined room in her New York home.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lucy Knight

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lucy Knight

The supreme court’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex “has been misinterpreted”, Lady Hale has said. Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in east Sussex, the first female president of the supreme court said the last thing she wants now that she has retired “is to undermine the court and its authority by being critical of its decisions”. “But I can be much more critical of the way it’s been received.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lucy Knight

Maggi Hambling’s morning routine involves making one drawing with her non-dominant left hand as soon as she gets up – a practice that has come in particularly useful lately, after having her little finger on her right hand amputated. “On November the 17th, I fell down the stairs, and I had a glass in my hand. And it’s cut through the hand and cut through the little finger,” she told the audience at Charleston festival in East Sussex, holding up her four-fingered hand.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Ella Creamer |Lucy Knight

Helena Bonham Carter, Toby Jones and Asa Butterfield are among actors performing poems in memory of family members and friends who have died, to mark Celebration Day later this month. The initiative, conceived in 2022 by high-profile figures including Stephen Fry, Prue Leith, film director Oliver Parker and writer and poetry curator Allie Esiri, sets aside a day in the calendar each year to celebrate the lives of lost loved ones, inspired by celebrations such as Mexico’s Day of the Dead.