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'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' review: Respect, consent, and boundaries come first

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Emma Thompson is characteristically brilliant as Nancy Stokes, a sexually repressed former teacher with naught but a skerrick of self-confidence, who, two years since her husband died, decides to hire sex worker Leo Grande, played by staggeringly talented newcomer Daryl McCormack. Think how civilised it could be," he says.

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Twitter asks: Are books just an aesthetic?

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Fox's celebrity-to-author moment comes in tandem with another viral instance of book-related chaos, courtesy of actor Ashley Tisdale. Mashable's Rachel Thompson explored the idea of having every intention to finish a book, but just not reaching that point. Tweet may have been deleted. Tweet may have been deleted.

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30 incredible writers pen empowering essays of singlehood in 'Unattached'

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A Single Revolution author Shani Silver nails it in her piece for Unattached , a new anthology edited by author and journalist Angelica Malin. We're lucky enough to have an extract of Thompson's essay from Unattached (because of course I asked for this one!)

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Should we stop having casual sex?

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In her new book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation , author and Washington Post columnist Christine Emba argues that consent is not enough — that love should be the standard in which we have sex. Still, as my Mashable colleague Rachel Thompson wrote in her book Rough , it's misleading to call non-consensual choking BDSM or rough sex.

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11 Jane Austen movie and TV adaptations we ardently admire and love

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Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay AND starred in it as Elinor Dashwood, and earned two Academy Awards for it all, becoming the only person to have won Oscars for both acting and screenwriting for the same film. — Rachel Thompson, Features Editor How to watch: Sense and Sensibility is now streaming on HBO Max in the U.S.

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What is the virility myth? Read an extract from Sophia Smith Galer's book 'Losing It'

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Journalist and author Sophia Smith Galer. Disclaimer: Rachel Thompson provided a blurb for the cover of Losing It. "If I do my job right, you will finish this book armed with knowledge around sex, relationships, and society that you have been both actively and passively denied," writes Smith Galer in the introduction.