With its gods, monsters and dizzying scale, Homer’s the Odyssey is deemed by many to be unfilmable, though it hasn’t stopped directors from having a go, including Christopher Nolan, whose blockbuster adaptation... Read more »
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The summer of 1976 calls to my generation of novelists. We don’t remember it, but we remember the textures of daily life in that era, and a heatwave puts daily life under... Read more »
There are, MR James tells us, five conditions that must be met for a perfect ghost story: the pretence of truth, a “pleasing terror”, no explanation of the machinery, no gratuitous horror, and... Read more »
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Grossman’s eyes, of course, were far more sensitive than Gromov’s. In the sixty-one years since his death—and since the reissues of “Stalingrad” and “Life and Fate,” his two magisterial novels about the... Read more »
It’s that time again. That time when we bring you a glimpse into the books we’re most excited about for the rest of the year, starting with the first ones publishing in... Read more »
Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose subversive works of feminist fiction saw her repeatedly imprisoned, has died aged 80. A pioneer of women’s literature in Iran, Parsipur excoriated the country’s patriarchal... Read more »
Austrian cultural figures have launched a campaign to buy a villa once home to the writer Stefan Zweig after its owner, the automotive magnate Wolfgang Porsche, unexpectedly put it on the market... Read more »