Angela Davis, photographed in Berkeley, California, last month. Photograph: Jessica Chou/The Guardian. Styling: Indya BrownIn 1972, the former Black Panther was facing the death penalty. Five decades after the campaign for her release went global, she still believes people are the ‘motors of history’
by Simon HattenstoneThe last time Angela Davis was in Birmingham, Alabama, she caught up with childhood friends and her Sunday school teacher. While many of us would reminisce about favourite classes and first kisses, they discussed bombs. Read More...
Anatomy of an artworkArtAubrey Beardsley’s The Peacock Skirt: a bold vision of female sexualityThis work, created for Oscar Wilde’s play Salome, would surely have floored the late Victorian establishment with its nonconformist take on gender roles
Vamping it upThis is one of the illustrations that Beardsley created for Oscar Wilde’s play Salome. Banned for translating biblical characters to the stage, its bold vision of female sexuality would surely have floored the late Victorian establishment. Read More...
Autobiography and memoirReviewA man turns his back on society and lives in a forest for seven years in this moving tribute to the animals that inspired him
There’s a dreamy moment halfway through Geoffroy Delorme’s brief, sensuous book in which one of the young deer he gets to know curls up beside him, its head resting on his leg. The image is both touchingly familiar and surreal. A couple of walkers nod in greeting as they pass, as if it’s customary for a wild deer to snooze in the lap of a human. Read More...
