The shushing of brush strokes stopped as Nieves González, painting her latest Baroque-style portrait of a woman in a contemporary puffer jacket, paused to chitchat with a fellow artist in their studio in southern Spain. “We’re always gossiping,” Ms. González, her green sweater splattered with paint and her face sparkling with nose studs, said with…
With every passing year—and each new season of Emily in Paris—Lily Collins reminds us that she and her character could actually not be more different. While the outré Emily Cooper never met a pattern she didn’t like, Collins’s own tastes lean more grounded and earthy. She issued another friendly reminder today with her low-key mom-off-duty…
Acclaimed US novelists Susan Choi and Lily King are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, in a lineup dominated by debut authors and independent publishers. The six titles contending for the £30,000 award range from a US campus love story to a coming of age tale set in 1960s Bradford,…
