English actress with seven-decade stage and screen career
Dame Penelope Keith has died after a battle with cancer. Her career spans stage, The Good Life and To the Manor Born, with a lasting impact on British comedy. Tributes praise her comic genius and decades of work in theatre, television and charity.
A review of Exit Party explores Miriam Mandel’s latest novel, with its 2031 setting, a plot propelled by Ari Waker’s post-prison reintegration and a shifting political landscape. The Guardian’s coverage frames Mandel’s evolution from quirky fables to world-spanning, politically resonant work, while weaving in themes of escape, identity and surveillance.