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Alexander HowardThe Conversation |
Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the...
In our feminist classics series, we look at influential books. Social constructs and questions of control are preoccupations the late British writer...
“Can’t move ‘em with a cold thing, like economics.” So says the modernist, Ezra Pound, in the first section of his epic poem, The Cantos. ...
In November 1975, Truman Capote, the proudly gay author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, unveiled the hotly anticipated second...
The Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is a 21st-century literary phenomenon. Talked up as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has...
Known for his music with The Pogues, and perhaps the most important Irish writer since James Joyce, the venerated and critically acclaimed Shane...
What is comedy? This is the question I kept coming back to while watching Andrew Upton’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, which opened...
Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists. Mick Jagger drew on the novel when penning the...
Jessica Au’s precise, poetic novella, Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo), an elegant meditation on its unnamed narrator’s trip to Japan with her...
In 2022, writer Suleika Dawson published an intimate, refreshingly candid first-hand account of her passionate extramarital affair with David Cornwell...
Halloween season is here, bringing with it the promise of new horrors at the box office. This year it’s all about renewed cinematic horrors....
Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. The...