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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow Antoine Leiris: 'I have to be a father and mother. Since this is impossible, I must be a perfect father' by Antoine Leiris Jan 30, 2022 In this extract from his new memoir, the journalist who wrote You Will Not Have My Hate after his wife, Hélène, was murdered in the 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris tries to come to terms with life as a single parent, and to put grief behind him It is the year after, in the middle of summer. I drop Melvil at his grandmother’s house so I won’t have him under my feet. Continue reading... Continue Reading The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Ava: The Secret Conversations – review by Susannah Clapp Jan 30, 2022 Bristol Old Vic; Riverside Studios, London Mark Rylance mines more drama from the 19th-century doctor driven mad by his work on hygiene than Elizabeth McGovern finds in the faded glamour of Ava Gardner From now on I’ll find it hard to wash my hands without thinking of Mark Rylance. In Dr Semmelweis he incarnates the Hungarian doctor who was a pioneer of antisepsis but is now largely forgotten. Perplexed, furious and zealous, Rylance is the burning centre of the play he wrote with Stephen Brown before the pandemic, and which is now brought to reverberating life under the direction of Tom Morris. Working in the obstetric clinic of the Vienna general hospital in the mid-19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis was appalled by the number of women who were dying soon after giving birth. Conventional medicine considered the deaths inevitable, accounting for them by miasma, poor ventilation or emotional disturbance. Semmelweis’s investigations, conducted before the concept of bacteria, revealed that patients were being unintentionally harmed by the men who were trying to heal them: physicians, who moved straight from conducting autopsies to delivering babies, were contaminating the mothers. When they washed their hands with a chlorinated solution, the deaths ceased. The effect was indisputable but resisted by the medical profession for years; Semmelweis died, his work unacknowledged, in an asylum. Continue reading... Continue Reading Tales of the unexpected: the surprise boom in UK short stories by Miranda Bryant Jan 30, 2022 The literary form is enjoying a renaissance, with the pandemic allowing people more time to consume and produce it Before the pandemic, Deborah Yewande Bankole was on what she describes as a “steady diet of short stories”. She loved seeking out emerging writers and admired the work of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Julia Armfield and Danielle Evans, but had not considered writing one of her own. So during lockdown, when furloughed from her job as a creative producer, she found herself with the time to sit down and write, and was surprised when what materialised was her own first short story. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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