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How Athens discovered a new, confident Greek cuisine
Updated Sat, September 26, 2026 at 9:01 AM UTC Photograph: neirfy/Getty Images/iStockphoto Visiting Athens for its food might have sounded like a joke to previous generations. Unlike many other Mediterranean countries, including Italy, Spain and Turkey, Greece had no renaissance and no aristocracy to fund chefs and develop sophisticated cuisines.
‘The air resounds with a Babel’s Tower of languages’: why I wrote a novel based in Victoria Square, Athens
Pedion tou Areos park in Athens.Photograph: Andrey Shevchenko/Alamy (Photograph: Andrey Shevchenko/Alamy) After my father’s will banned me and my siblings from his funeral, I wrote a novel about some brothers and sisters stealing their dad in his coffin. The emotions were drawn from my painful experiences, but I invented the characters and the tragi-comic narrative in Stealing Dad.
‘The air resounds with a Babel's Tower of languages': why I wrote a novel based in Victoria Square, Athens
Sofka Zinovieff After my father's will banned me and my siblings from his funeral, I wrote a novel about some brothers and sisters stealing their dad in his coffin. The emotions were drawn from my painful experiences, but I invented the characters and the tragi-comic narrative inStealing Dad. Despite growing up in England, I've lived in and written about Athens for 25 years, and it came naturally to create several Greek characters.
‘The air resounds with a Babel’s Tower of languages’: why I wrote a novel based in Victoria Square, Athens
Pedion tou Areos park in Athens.Photograph: Andrey Shevchenko/Alamy After my father’s will banned me and my siblings from his funeral, I wrote a novel about some brothers and sisters stealing their dad in his coffin. The emotions were drawn from my painful experiences, but I invented the characters and the tragi-comic narrative in Stealing Dad. Despite growing up in England, I’ve lived in and written about Athens for 25 years, and it came naturally to create several Greek characters.
I was barred from my father’s funeral. It made me rethink grief
Five years ago, my 88-year-old father fell down the stairs and was seriously injured.
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell review - a powerful, shocking debut
The literary exploration of sexual consent is nothing new, but the change in attitudes that allowed #MeToo to flourish has galvanised a new reckoning. The sexual abuse of children in the past is the razor-sharp tip of a huge iceberg that has often gone unnoticed and was mostly submerged. People who hardly knew they were victims are now telling their stories and, more significantly, their accusations are being listened to.
Stocking My Ereader for an International Train Travel Adventure
I spent the month of August traveling by train from Berlin to Budapest and living out of just a backpack. I’m a reader accustomed to a sizable home library (complete with houseplants, cozy armchairs, and littered with coffee mugs) so this type of trip—while amazing!—turns my reading life upside down just a bit. I don’t usually use an ereader, but it is simply a necessity for a long backpacking trip involving trains.
Star-crossed lovers
Books Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls reviewed The 16-year-old hero of David Nicholls’s fifth novel is ostensibly Everyboy. It is June 1997, the last day at dreary Merton Grange and, having flunked his exams, Charlie Lewis attends the leaving disco — all dry ice, vomit and making out, laced with Cointreau and disinfectant. An infinity looms of bloated summer days, with only a part-time, underpaid garage job as distraction.
The Best Audiobooks of 2018 (So Far)
This year’s best audiobook performances are almost all the work of narrators who make a serious living recording books. These actors (not mere readers) have the dramatic skill and interpretive talent to create an experience wholly distinct from reading.
‘Putney’ is the perfect #MeToo book club pick
Thought-provoking and relevant, Sofka Zinovieff’s new novel “Putney” will provide plenty of book groups with fodder for discussions about female sexuality, child molestation, friendship and the #MeToo movement. The story is a nuanced portrayal of the relationship between a 30-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl, but it’s less “Lolita” than an homage to “The Constant Nymph,” that 1920s bohemian novel of underage love and jealousy – at least at first.
'Putney' is the perfect #MeToo book club pick
Thought-provoking and relevant, Sofka Zinovieff’s new novel “Putney” will provide plenty of book groups with fodder for discussions about female sexuality, child molestation, friendship and the #MeToo movement. The story is a nuanced portrayal of the relationship between a 30-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl, but it’s less “Lolita” than an homage to “The Constant Nymph,” that 1920s bohemian novel of underage love and jealousy – at least at first.
#MeToo movement in fiction: ‘Vox,’ ‘Putney’ and more timely releases
In the 10 months since the initial reports on sexual assault and harassment allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, reverberations and reckonings from the #MeToo movement have cascaded across the country, from Hollywood to Broadway, the arts to academia, journalism to politics. The drumbeat of accusations has slowed, but the examination of the entrenched culture of abuse and misogyny in our society is not going away.
September issue of the Oldie available to download now – one week early! - The Oldie
Welcome to the September Issue of The Oldie, crammed with exclusives to lift the dog days of summer. The Queen Mother’s remarkable lady-in-waiting, Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, is about to turn 100. She remembers the laughs of working with the Queen Mum for 37 years, the joyous anecdotes of her sister-in-law Joyce Grenfell and the dark days of the war – when her husband was in Colditz with Douglas Bader, who hid his lunch in his false legs.
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale—a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of Franco’s Spain.
A Slice of the Seventies
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In the 1930s and '40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication.
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Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity – masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves – and his homosexuality. Before the war he made Faringdon an aesthete’s paradise, where exquisite food was served to many of the great minds, beauties and wits of the day.
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