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In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway , F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great ...
World-famous portraits and rare manuscripts from literary legends including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bronte ...
After escaping her conventional middle-class upbringing, Dora Carrington enjoyed an outré and artistic lifestyle.
Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is an Irish writer, living and working in Edinburgh, and her debut novel, Ordinary Saints, is inspired by ...
Amrita Pritam wanted her Delhi home preserved as a memorial. After her death, it was demolished, erased brick by brick.
A novel that tricks its readers, another exploring the "incessant gnaw" of grief after death, non-fiction about emigrating to ...
Who spilled vodka on the cat?” are words that, to my knowledge, have never been spoken in a movie before. Until now. They are uttered by 12-year-old Mikal in the documentary Flophouse America, which ...
DOX The family portrait that emerges is one of deep psychological complexity. At times, Jason and Tonya seem to border on George and Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, bickering with ...
More than just a portrait of her mother’s death ... Land" stands alongside his modernist peers James Joyce and Virginia Woolf with this rivetingly complex work that alludes to the greats ...
After the portrait was exhibited ... Cameron’s life and work has long intrigued scholars and artists. In 1923, Virginia Woolf, a great-niece of Cameron’s, wrote a comic play, Freshwater ...
Music, matriarchs, and modernism are the themes of this month's book recommendations. This April, we're looking at the latest work from a one of Japan's most exciting writers, and one of the best ...