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Manuel Betancourt Virginia Woolf‘s “Orlando: A Biography” is a centuries-spanning tale of a nobleman who, after a slumber that runs through several nights, metamorphoses into a woman. Inspired by and dedicated to Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West, the classic 1928 novel has long been fodder for feminist and queer readings. The florid tale of a nobleman-cum-woman who fluidly plays with gender and sexuality, is as totemic a text as one can find to illustrate the timely and timeless journeys trans and gender-noncomforning folks have been making for decades (if not centuries).

Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler have shared an emotive new collaborative single today, ‘The Eagle And The Dove’ – watch the video for the new song below.It’s the first preview of a new album that the pair have completed together, ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’, which will arrive on June 10.The single was the first song the pair wrote together and is named after a book by the interwar proto-feminist writer Vita Sackville-West.Speaking about the new project, Buckley and Butler said in a joint statement: “The album should be discovered by the world as if they have tripped across a box of photographs in the back of their closet they didn’t know was there.”Listen to ‘The Eagle And The Dove’ here:‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’ Tracklisting 1 – ‘The Eagle & The Dove’2 – ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’3 – ’20 Years A-Growing’4 – ‘Babylon Days’5 – ‘Seven Red Rose Tattoos’6 – ‘Footnotes On The Map’7 – ‘We’ve Run The Distance’8 – ‘We Haven’t Spoke About The Weather’9 – ‘Beautiful Regret’10 – ‘I Cried Your Tears’11 – ‘Shallow The Water’12 – ‘Catch The Dust’A statement about the collaboration said: “It all started with a FaceTime call from Butler’s North London kitchen to Buckley’s mountaintop residence in County Kerry, with their friendship growing from an unlikely shared love of Killarney and the small island of Valentia where Butler would go on holiday as a boy. A mutual friend had a feeling they might spark.“Buckley had been listening to ‘Old Wow’ by Sam Lee, produced by Bernard, in the downtime between rehearsals for the National Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the rights to a pitch from Ben Queen, which is loosely based on the novel A Note of Explanation to be adapted into a feature film with Queen also penning the script.A Note of Explanation, a previously unknown work by famed writer Vita Sackville-West and written in 1922, was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary’s dollhouse in Windsor Castle, and tells the story of a time-travelling sprite who inhabits the