Moby Dick: An American Allegory

The US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), scandalous and nonconformist creator, hated by the most reca...

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is publ...

The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American...

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness nov...

Guy Ben-Ner, one of Israel's foremost video artists, gained international recognition with a series...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...

In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and...

England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Ch...

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): tw...

An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his exper...

A portrait of the controversial German writer Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), the great stylist of 20th ce...

An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip...

A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1...

A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William S...

A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), a man infinitely more complex...

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on...