Новости за 16.06.2015

Of all genres, letters and journals are surely the most informed by their author's own character. Virginia Woolf's Diaries are full of a brilliantly captured sensibility, while Dylan Thomas's Letters are by turns seductive, sentimental and full of serious writerly concerns. We claim to read these intimate forms for their prose style. But of course they also feed the proprietorial sense we have of our favourite writers.

It is rare indeed at Royal Ascot that both a trainer and jockey have shouted the name of the week’s good thing from the rooftops. But Richard Hannon and Richard Hughes have not been able to contain themselves as Ivawood drops back to seven furlongs for the Jersey Stakes after finishing third behind Gleneagles in both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas over a mile.

It was the big fight that never was. Solow, the fabulous French grey, turned up fit and firing for the Queen Anne Stakes, the eagerly awaited opening showdown at Royal Ascot, but unfortunately Hong Kong’s champion Able Friend was effectively a no-show, trailing home with the also-rans without so much as laying a glove on Europe’s finest older miler.

Hannah Rothschild, the incoming chair of the National Gallery, remembers the moment she first saw the artwork that changed her life. During her gap year before university, doing a "desperately dull job" in the Louvre in Paris, she stumbled upon Pierrot by the 18th-century painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.

It is the book that everyone in New York has been talking about for weeks. Or at least, everyone in one particular neighbourhood.

Love, as most of us have cause to rue, is an exciting but fickle business. In a trice, it seems, the public are head over heels again with the England cricket team.

Rafael Nadal produced a false start in the long quest to rediscover his Wimbledon touch by falling at the first hurdle to Alex Dolgopolov at the Aegon Championships.

Jess Glynne has been forced to cancel a number of UK dates including her Glastonbury performance to have surgery on her vocal chords.

Mathieu Bastareaud has revealed how he tried to take his life in 2009 after drinking heavily and becoming depressed when he saw people criticising him on the internet.

Mathieu Bastareaud has revealed how he tried to take his life in 2009 after drinking heavily and becoming depressed when he saw people criticising him on the internet.

The seminal blues and folk musician who put the Led Zeppelin in ''Gallows Pole'' – superbly revived by US vocalist Dana Fuchs halfway through this 3 hour+ event – Lead Belly died in 1949 but continues to cast a long shadow over successive generations of performers like Nirvana who have reinterpreted the material he recorded before and after being released from prison in the mid-1930s.

In her latest effort to get down with the kids, Madonna appears to have taken a leaf out of Taylor Swift’s book in her new video.

Summer festival season is officially here, and has been for the last few weeks. Singer-songwriter Rae Morris appears to have signed herself up for all of them (Truck, Y Not, Festival No. 6, Bestival…) but says she’s most excited about Glastonbury.

ITV has poached two of the BBC’s biggest names to serve on The X Factor judging panel this autumn.

Zayn Malik is clearly trying to get away from the 'gonna love you forever girl yeah' indie pop of One Direction with his forthcoming solo career, posting a cover of trap duo Rae Sremmurd's hit 'No Type'.

Brian O'Driscoll, Ireland. World Cups Played In – 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011

American Laura Van Den Berg's debut novel is a dystopian fiction, apparently, and dystopias, so far as the writer of fiction is concerned, are lands of milk and honey. I confess, though, to struggling with a genre that I've always felt errs more towards the thought experiment than the fully realised, or even artfully insinuated fictional world.

Katie Swan’s first appearance on the main tour ended in defeat but two other Britons enjoyed fine wins on the first day of the Aegon Classic at Edgbaston.

Katie Swan’s first appearance on the main tour ended in defeat but two other Britons enjoyed fine wins on the first day of the Aegon Classic at Edgbaston.

After his least successful 12 months since he won the first of his 66 singles titles 11 years ago, Rafael Nadal HAS revealed that he had set himself modest targets for the rest of 2015. Admitting that he did “not care much” whether or not he was in contention for the year’s remaining two Grand Slam titles, the Spaniard said on his return here to the Aegon Championships that his main aims were to stay fit and healthy and to qualify for the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

After his least successful 12 months since he won the first of his 66 singles titles 11 years ago, Rafael Nadal has revealed that he had set himself modest targets for the rest of 2015. Admitting that he did "not care much" whether or not he was in contention for the year's remaining two Grand Slam titles, the Spaniard said on his return here to the Aegon Championships that his main aims were to stay fit and healthy and to qualify for the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.