Lena Dunham: girl. Photograph: HBO Jezebel creator Anna Holmes and writer Julieanne Smolinski – two smart women who are just so American culture savvy – will be hosting a chat following the premiere of HBO‘s Girls on Monday, April 16 at 1pm ET. The show, which premieres Sunday, April 15 at 10.30pm ET) is a...
Emma Brockes ‘It astonished me’ … playwright Sarah Ruhl. Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian The play In the Next Room, also known as the Vibrator Play, was a big hit a couple of years ago in New York, which surprised no one more than Sarah Ruhl, the playwright. Although Ruhl, then 34, was...
Sadhbh Walshe Statistically, women who stay with violent partners are less likely to be killed by their abusers than women who attempt to leave them. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian A few years ago, a young woman named Natasha shot and killed her boyfriend in the apartment they were sharing. He had trapped...
Jess Cartner-Morley An Apfel a day: Iris Apfel in some of her unique outfits. Photograph: Rex Features/WireImage/Caroline Torem Craig/Guardian montage Iris Apfel was 83, and 13 years into her retirement, when she became a celebrity. The year was 2005, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York staged an exhibition of her wardrobe. This included...
Emine Saner ‘We’re seeing all kinds of women activists across the planet … There are signs everywhere you look’ … Eve Ensler. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian Who could have predicted what an effect a group of women talking about vaginas would have. Fifteen years ago, Eve Ensler, then a moderately successful New York playwright,...
Decca Aitkenhead Siddhartha Mukherjee, winner of the Guardian First Book award 2011. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian It is the convention of awards-ceremony etiquette for the winner to perform a convincing impression of bashful disbelief. The man I meet just hours before he was awarded the Guardian First Book award last Thursday has just...
Hadley Freeman Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). Photograph: Henry Lamb/BEI / Rex Features Ladies! How are your marriage prospects looking? Good? Bad? In need of an ironing? Perhaps if you alphabetise them they will look more enticing. Attractive. Bed, in possession of incredible skills in. Cute. Doesn’t earn more than...
In one of my favourite episodes of Sex And The City, Samantha takes the girls to trendy new restaurant Raw, where nothing is cooked above 118 degrees. The food is predictably revolting, so much so that when a battle of wills breaks out between Samantha and another diner for the attentions of a hunky...
