Isabella RosselliniInterviewIsabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’Simon HattenstoneThe actor’s latest project is about the joy of sex, as well as its capacity to exploit, control and kill. She discusses the pleasure of life after being written off by Hollywood and the beauty business
Isabella Rossellini is a busy woman. It is hard to know how the model, actor, writer, animal behaviourist and farmer finds so much time to talk about sex. Read More...
FictionReviewBy Anna ScottAs Rose Edelstein turns nine, the simple task of eating becomes fraught with dread. Biting into her mother's lemon cake, she tastes "absence, hunger, spiralling, hollows", and is shocked to realise that these disturbing emotions emanate from "Mom", belying her happy, fulfilled exterior. Negotiating around sandwiches that yell "love me", and cookies tasting of "tight anger" is bad enough, but Rose's new-found ability as "food psychic" also gives her an unwelcome insight into the lives of those to whom she is ostensibly closest. Read More...
Pass notesItalyAre you Italian? Sick of your compatriots dropping their kids off at baby parking while they go footing past the sexy shop? We’ve got just the petition for you
Name: Accademia della Crusca.
Age: Old. Established in 1583, it’s the oldest language academy in the world.
Location: Florence, of course, home of Italian culture.
Motto: “Il più bel fior ne coglie.”
Which means ... “She gathers the fairest flower.” Read More...
