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Anne Enright. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PAAnne Enright: ‘She bristled with intelligence’Irish writer best known for her Booker prize-winning novel The GatheringHilary Mantel recently spent time in west Cork where she had acquired a house. It was her intention to reclaim her European citizenship by way of the Irish passport to which she was entitled. There were times in her life when her Irish ancestry was less important to her, but after the Brexit referendum it had become central again.Mantel grew up in a pocket of…

This account of the rise and fall of radio station XFM (by Ray Burdis and co-director Ian Jefferies) will bring rheumy tears of nostalgic wistfulness to the eyes of Gen Xers and older millennials who were living in London in the 1990s. Not that it’s especially sad: if anything it’s a classic story of cool kids who get to live the dream then either sell out to the man or be betrayed by the guys who sold out, but still end up doing all right in the end. Nobody dies, apart from poor Princess Diana who was killed the morning…

Michael Rosen. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The ObserverMichael Rosen: ‘We have been lucky to have read and watched such great work from a great artist with a great heart’British children’s author and poetI feel enormous sadness that one of the great figures of children’s literature has gone.I first came across Briggs’s work as a parent reading his books The Mother Goose Treasury and Father Christmas, and Elfrida Vipont’s The Elephant and the Bad Baby, which he illustrated. Briggs created landscapes, scenes and intimate…

Screenshot: FXThe cast and creative team for Archer put on their annual Indigo Ballroom panel for the upcoming season 13 on FXX. While we got a preview for future events, the panel focused on the absence of beloved cast member Jessica Walter. Aisha Tyler recalled a Comic-Con story where Jessica Walter was eyeing Henry Cavill at a party and Aisha took her to meet “Mr. Cavill” after previously making his acquaintance. Walter had other plans: Tyler remarked that in Malory style, she wouldn’t let go of Cavill, insisting, “I…