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Nora Ephron

May 2024

  • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Heartburn.

    Stream team
    From meet-cute to marriage breakdown: Streep and Nicholson shine in Nora Ephron’s bittersweet Heartburn

    This forerunner to the writer’s charming romcoms is real and relatable – the truest of her meditations on love

June 2023

  • Meg Ryan, Jonah Baldwin and Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle

    Sleepless in Seattle at 30: Nora Ephron’s romcom still worth falling for

    Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan exude timeless star power as a couple kept apart for almost the entirety of the 1993 classic

February 2023

  • Love match: David Nicholls, Monica Heisey, Mike Gayle, Curtis Sittenfeld, Stanley Tucci and Ore Agbaje Williams pick their favourite romance novels

    ‘You can read it in the time it takes to have a one night stand’: authors on their favourite romcom books

    Stanley Tucci, Jenny Colgan, David Nicholls and others reflect on their favourite romantic comedies, including Heartburn, A Room With a View and The Spanish Love Deception

December 2022

  • Amnesty International Benefit, 1977<br>Nora Ephron, Carl Bernstein and guest during Amnesty International Benefit, 1977 at Tavern on the Green in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

    My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer

    The ability to bend an inch at a time while seeming to stand up straight is a useful and gendered skill

June 2022

  • Character Approved - Season 1<br>CHARACTER APPROVED -- Season 1 -- Pictured: Writer and Director Nora Ephron -- (Photo by: Scott McDermott/USA/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

    ‘All her movies are nonfiction’: remembering the life and work of Nora Ephron

    In an expansive new biography, the acclaimed writer and director’s complexities are explored and contextualised

April 2022

  • Delectably acid … Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in the 1986 film version of Heartburn.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction

    Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys

October 2021

  • Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, with Ryan dressed in blazer and bowler hat

    Goodbye Hot Girl Summer, hello Meg Ryan Fall – TikTok’s new trend

    Nostalgia and Americana meet hygge in fashion’s latest warm, outdoorsy, retro aesthetic

September 2020

  • Arifa Akbar

    Dear Sleepless in Seattle, I just can't fall for your musical revamp

    Arifa Akbar
    Nora Ephron’s romcom was brilliantly written and perfectly cast with an elegant score. Our chief theatre critic, who loves the film, writes a letter after seeing its stage adaptation

May 2020

  • Sleepless in Seattle … Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen … Sleepless in Seattle

  • Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron

    Lockdown culture
    Love, Loss and What I Wore review – all dressed up by the Ephron sisters

April 2020

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    Small talk and ready-made sandwiches: things I don't miss about normal life

    Hadley Freeman
    I’ve been thinking about Nora Ephron’s lists, not because I’m dying, but because normal life has, for now, died for all of us

March 2020

  • That’s quarantainment … Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale, Gary Oldman as George Smiley, Henry Cavill in The Witcher, and Albert Camus.

    Lockdown culture
    Got 150 hours? Great audiobooks to listen to on lockdown

    From Ian McKellen reading Homer to Bill Bryson on the body, these audiobooks can expand your horizons, even when you can’t go out

February 2020

  • Carla Valentine, technical curator at St Bartholomew Hospital Pathology Museum, explains her job on the BBC podcast Mortem.

    The week in podcasts: Mortem; Over the Road; The Space Programme

    Exploring unusual subjects, from autopsies to long-haul trucking

July 2018

  • Rob Reiner

    'I want everyone to be happy': how Rob Reiner became a great director – and a political hero

    The maker of This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me and When Harry Met Sally … also campaigned successfully for same-sex marriage. He talks love, friendship and the moment Nora Ephron revealed that women fake orgasms

May 2018

  • Joan Didion, circa 1977. Courtesy: CSU Archives / Everett Collection<br>CWAJNJ Joan Didion, circa 1977. Courtesy: CSU Archives / Everett Collection

    Book of the day
    Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean – review

    Dean’s group biography of female writers who dared speak their mind is a great and worthy project

December 2017

  • Alec Guinness as John Le Carre’s spy George Smiley.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about growing old

    While ageing can all too easily leave some frightened, the likes of Alec Guinness, Nora Ephron and Julian Barnes have produced wry and positive takes on old age

June 2017

  • Brooke Boney

    Beauty and the books
    Brooke Boney: Nora Ephron's book is almost like a bible for me

    In Beauty and the books, the broadcaster talks about coconut oil and why anyone who doubts intergenerational trauma should read The God of Small Things

October 2016

  • Good Girls Revolt, Amazon Prime

    Good Girls Revolt review – watch this if you want to get angry

    OK it’s no Mad Men, but Amazon’s new show is an evocative portrait of sexist 60s medialand – where the women did all the work and the men took all the credit

March 2016

  • Emma Brockes

    Notebook
    Cold and effortlessly destructive – let’s celebrate the classics of revenge literature

    Emma Brockes
    Nora Ephron’s classy Heartburn set the standard for past relationship score-settling. Much classier than Alec Baldwin’s 240-page howl of protest

January 2016

  • Photograph of Nora Ephron

    The crush
    Crush of the week: Nora Ephron

    Her tone was smart and light, even when she was writing about distinctly dark things
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