Nicole Flattery

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Jessica Winter |Nicole Flattery |Ben Nicholson |Samuel Thomas Davies

One of a spate of early noughties Jane Austen adaptations, Pride & Prejudice impressed our critic with fine casting and evocative cinematography and production design. Updated: 24 April 2025Keira Knightley can sometimes cut a chilly, rigid figure on screen, but she’s never exuded more warmth and confidence than as Lizzy Bennet in Pride & Prejudice. She perfectly embodies what Jane Austen characterised as Lizzy’s “lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous”.

4 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Nicole Flattery |Ben Nicholson |Samuel Thomas Davies |Simran Hans

Close to the end of Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, a documentary by Sinéad O’Shea, the writer and critic Andrew O’Hagan forms an assessment of O’Brien’s work. Her strength, he tells us, came from her ability “to embrace ambiguity, to see all around her”. He is referring specifically to her 1994 novel about the Troubles House of Splendid Isolation, but he could be talking about any of her books, including her scandalous debut The Country Girls.

May 13, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | Nicole Flattery

Mae, dix-sept ans, vit avec sa mère et le compagnon de celle-ci. En attendant que la vie commence, elle déambule dans New York, obsédée par les escalators et les rencontres de hasard. Nous sommes dans les années soixante, une nouvelle génération découvre le rock, la pop et la liberté. Mae trouve un petit boulot de dactylo dans un immense loft de la 47e Rue, qui n’est autre que la Factory, le studio d’Andy Warhol.

Apr 17, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Patrick deWitt |Nicole Flattery

Patrick deWitt​ is the sort of writer you imagine checking his emails on an old desktop computer in the library. His five deceptively simple novels suggest pleasant, old-fashioned things. They hinge on traditional plot devices – misunderstandings, a letter delivered or undelivered, a chance meeting. There is no modern technology here. In deWitt’s first novel, Ablutions (2009), the narrator repeatedly takes a telephone off the wall and throws it in the bin.

Mar 16, 2024 | msn.com | Nicole Flattery

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