Melissa Denes
@melissadenes.bsky.social
Culture editor, Times. Formerly Guardian, New Statesman
Spoke to Nora Garrett, the very smart screenwriter of After the Hunt, about Hollywood, MeToo, Johnny Depp, and her past lives assisting Rosamund Pike and training AI for Meta
www.thetimes.com/article/9184...
www.thetimes.com/article/9184...
After the Hunt’s Nora Garrett: from LA assistant to Hollywood’s most wanted
The screenwriter behind the explosive new film, starring Julia Roberts, talks MeToo, cancel culture and power struggles
www.thetimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Spoke to Nora Garrett, the very smart screenwriter of After the Hunt, about Hollywood, MeToo, Johnny Depp, and her past lives assisting Rosamund Pike and training AI for Meta
www.thetimes.com/article/9184...
www.thetimes.com/article/9184...
So good I had to read it twice: @jtcbooks.bsky.social gets her ‘farm to table face’ on for Woody Allen’s debut novel
www.thetimes.com/article/256f...
www.thetimes.com/article/256f...
September 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
So good I had to read it twice: @jtcbooks.bsky.social gets her ‘farm to table face’ on for Woody Allen’s debut novel
www.thetimes.com/article/256f...
www.thetimes.com/article/256f...
Prima Facie was extraordinary and I hear good things about Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia too. We spoke about raising boys, porn, emotional labour and rattling cages again Can’t wait to see Rosamund Pike bring this to life
www.thetimes.com/article/5ada...
www.thetimes.com/article/5ada...
How do you follow Prima Facie? With a play about boys, porn and parents
Suzie Miller’s hit drama starring Jodie Comer changed the conversation around sexual crimes. Now Inter Alia, starring Rosamund Pike, tackles the root of the problem
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July 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Prima Facie was extraordinary and I hear good things about Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia too. We spoke about raising boys, porn, emotional labour and rattling cages again Can’t wait to see Rosamund Pike bring this to life
www.thetimes.com/article/5ada...
www.thetimes.com/article/5ada...
Five pieces from today’s @thetimes Culture magazine, all free to air:
Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles talks to @JANUSZCZAK about upsetting the art world, @MaskedSingerUK, his boomer era and new alter ego
www.thetimes.com/article/5c94...
Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles talks to @JANUSZCZAK about upsetting the art world, @MaskedSingerUK, his boomer era and new alter ego
www.thetimes.com/article/5c94...
Grayson Perry: I like to shock the ‘unshockable’ art world
From frocks to pots and a spot on The Masked Singer, the Turner prize-winning artist lets loose on breaking taboos, turning 65 — and his best show yet
www.thetimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Five pieces from today’s @thetimes Culture magazine, all free to air:
Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles talks to @JANUSZCZAK about upsetting the art world, @MaskedSingerUK, his boomer era and new alter ego
www.thetimes.com/article/5c94...
Grayson Perry @Alan_Measles talks to @JANUSZCZAK about upsetting the art world, @MaskedSingerUK, his boomer era and new alter ego
www.thetimes.com/article/5c94...
The Times is free to read all weekend but tomorrow’s Culture also nice in print, featuring the 25 best albums of the 21st century, Steven Bartlett, Michael Morpurgo on the farm and more
March 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Times is free to read all weekend but tomorrow’s Culture also nice in print, featuring the 25 best albums of the 21st century, Steven Bartlett, Michael Morpurgo on the farm and more
One of the luckiest, funniest gigs of my life - interviewing David Lynch in his beloved LA garden, featuring squirrel-proof bird-feeders, seagull roadkill and a world premiere of Dead Mouse with Ants
www.thetimes.com/article/5887...
www.thetimes.com/article/5887...
David Lynch v the squirrels — at home with the Blue Velvet director
The American auteur, who died this week, took sanctuary in a vast modernist complex off Mulholland Drive where he painted, smoked … and perfected his rodent-proof bird feeder
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January 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
One of the luckiest, funniest gigs of my life - interviewing David Lynch in his beloved LA garden, featuring squirrel-proof bird-feeders, seagull roadkill and a world premiere of Dead Mouse with Ants
www.thetimes.com/article/5887...
www.thetimes.com/article/5887...
Solidarity with friends and former colleagues at the Guardian and Observer, whose loss or dilution would put a huge hole in news, comment, cultural coverage and Sundays. The two papers have been fully blended on the site for so long that few readers realise how much will go
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
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December 4, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Solidarity with friends and former colleagues at the Guardian and Observer, whose loss or dilution would put a huge hole in news, comment, cultural coverage and Sundays. The two papers have been fully blended on the site for so long that few readers realise how much will go
Reposted by Melissa Denes
These are the 19 best books of 2024, according to our critics 📚
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Do you agree with their picks? Let us know 👇
November 29, 2024 at 1:01 PM
These are the 19 best books of 2024, according to our critics 📚
Do you agree with their picks? Let us know 👇
Do you agree with their picks? Let us know 👇
Terrific long read by my former fellow New Stateswoman @SEMcBain on the science, optimism and parents driving a big increase in the survival rate of babies born at 22 weeks - in ‘the grey zone’
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
The long read: Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffe...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Terrific long read by my former fellow New Stateswoman @SEMcBain on the science, optimism and parents driving a big increase in the survival rate of babies born at 22 weeks - in ‘the grey zone’
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...