The 100 best British novels, as chosen by international critics
Zeljka Marosevic
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
“Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” is the opening line of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. This is the voice of Mrs. Ramsay, promising her young son James a trip… Read more »
When the news of Harper Lee’s new book, Go Set a Watchman, made headlines earlier this month, and questions of potential conflict and controversy began to surface, it was Lee’s… Read more »
An artist has rewritten Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own by rearranging all the words in the text to create a completely new piece of writing. Of One… Read more »
The Royal Opera House, London’s leading venue for opera and ballet, has announced that a ballet based on the life and works of Virginia Woolf will be the centrepiece of… Read more »
Yesterday the BBC’s director general Tony Hall announced the BBC’s new season of arts, calling it “the strongest commitment to the arts we’ve made in a generation.” The plans, which… Read more »
In his newest post for the New York Review of Books blog, Charles Simic muses on “Summertime.” He fears the loss of laziness as skill: “To my great regret, I… Read more »
It’s a shame Virginia Woolf set Mrs. Dalloway in “the middle of June,” rather than on a day readers could remember and plan around each year. Clarissa Dalloway, like Leopold… Read more »
The short answer is no. On Monday, as part of a fiction issue on women writers, Vice published a fashion spread depicting the suicides of well-known authors. Doppelganger models portray Sylvia… Read more »
Angelica Garnett, whose book about being born and raised amidst the Bloomsbury set greatly demystified and darkened the reputation of that “charmed circle,” has died at the age of 93.… Read more »