Caitriona Lally on Madame Bovary, Beryl the Peril and other heroines
What was the first book to make an impression on you? Alice in Wonderland – pure magic. I loved the rhythm of it, the nonsense that somehow made sense, the madness of it all. This year’s 150th...
View ArticleToronto Film Festival: Superstar Fan Bingbing Fights for Her Honor in I Am...
A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - - According to Forbes, Fan Bingbing made $17 million last year — more than any actress on the planet not named Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa...
View ArticleFrom Anna Karenina to Fatal Attraction: Ashley Madison’s new twist on a very...
The data breach at the Ashley Madison website for people pursuing extramarital affairs is just a new twist on a very old tale. Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterley’s Lover may be among the...
View ArticleGemma Arterton on her French cinema debut in Madame Bovary update
By Emma Jones Entertainment reporter, BBC News 20 August 2015 From the section Entertainment & Arts Arterton says her near-namesake Gemma Bovery is "just not ready to settle down" The daydream of...
View ArticleAn evening for book lovers; Irish author listed for $100,000 award; Cork stories
Charity evening for book lovers Irish authors will host a charity event next month in association with Eason Book Club to raise funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. Cecelia Ahern, Donal...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: Sophie Barthes’ ‘Madame Bovary’ starring Mia Wasikowska
Author Rating: 2.0 Stars - I Didn't Like It Although notoriously difficult to capture on film, Gustave Flaubert’s famed 1856 novel Madame Bovary has still attracted filmmakers. The story of a...
View ArticleEdna O’Brien: 'Is literature a dying animal?'
From Flaubert to Teju Cole, writers have the power to make us live through their books. But will novels still be an essential branch of life in 20 years time?...
View ArticleThe 100 best novels: from Bunyan’s pilgrim to Carey’s Ned Kelly
Two years in the making, our list of the 100 greatest English-language novels of all time is now complete. Having endured many sleepless nights in its compilation, Robert McCrum reflects on who got...
View ArticleMadame Bovary's malaise and the feminine mystique
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View ArticleDavid Bowie's list of 100 favorite books reveal his true inner nerd
We all know David Bowie as a music and pop culture icon. But if you are hoping looking for a crash course in must-read literature, look no further than Bowie's 100 favorite books. Bowie's list is as...
View ArticleGemma Bovary presents a new recipe for Madame Bovary
Audiences may know Gemma Arterton as the Bond girl in Quantum of Solace or Gretel in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters but the British actress’s repertoire expands past action films to the classics. In...
View ArticleRemembering David Bowie through his 100 favorite books
Although David Bowie was best known for his music, he also made countless contributions to the worlds of art, fashion and film. But the singer, who died Sunday, was also devoted to literature. In 2013,...
View Article‘Based on a true story’: the fine line between fact and fiction
From Kapuscinski to Knausgaard, from Mantel to Macfarlane, more and more writers are challenging the border between fiction and nonfiction. Here Geoff Dyer – longtime master of the space between, in...
View ArticleEggshells by Caitriona Lally review – a daring debut
An eccentric outsider roams around Dublin in an inventive and moving debut...
View ArticleMadame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary
Flaubert’s anti-heroine, the original Desperate Housewife lost in the dreams of romantic fiction, was a scandal on publication and still challenges our morality...
View ArticleThe 100 best novels in English? Irish writers and critics have their say
Fair play to Robert McCrum. Compiling a list over two years entitled The 100 best novels written in English for the Observer and guardian.com is not simply sticking your head over the literary parapet,...
View ArticleKlockworx takes 'Bovary', 'Hearts'
EXCLUSIVE: Radiant Films International has struck at the market with Klockworx for Japanese rights to two titles on its slate. President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer...
View ArticleUEA launches the British Archive for Contemporary Writing (University of East...
(Source: University of East Anglia) The University of East Anglia is today launching the British Archive for Contemporary Writing (BACW). The initiative builds on the University's international...
View ArticleGuardian readers' comfort library
Jane Austen rubs shoulders with Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett sits next to Harry Potter in the great self-help archive assembled by our contributors...
View ArticleEggshells by Caitriona Lally is new Irish Times Book Club choice
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally, described by Declan Kiberd as “a fairy tale of contemporary Dublin, edgy and eloquent, a remarkable debut”, is the new Irish Times Book Club choice. Over the next four...
View Article'Circling the Sun': Paula McLain reimagines the remarkable life of Beryl Markham
+ - Aviator Beryl Markham arriving in New York, on Sept. 6, 1936, after a solo flight across the Atlantic. Markham is the subject of a new novel. Photo Credit: AP advertisement | advertise on newsday...
View Article'Madame Bovary' deserves Oscar notice for costumes and set design
Filmmaker Sophie Barthes brings a new adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's popular romantic novel "Madame Bovary" to the silver screen. Very adeptly, Barthes brings the audience back to nineteenth century...
View ArticleBeryl Bainbridge by Brendan King review – drink, sex and wonderful novels
This vivid biography details Bainbridge’s complicated private life, out of which emerged some of the greatest works in English fiction...
View ArticleJulian Barnes: 'Biographical novels are kind of cheesy'
The Man Booker-winning novelist on Shostakovich, western triumphalism and the intimacy of the third person narrator...
View ArticleIt's Fan Bingbing vs. the Patriarchy in the Enthralling I Am Not Madame Bovary
A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - - According to Forbes, Fan Bingbing last year made $17 million — more than any actress on the planet not named Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa...
View ArticleTop 10 novels about unfaithful wives
From the class-crossing Constance Chatterley to Tolstoy’s enchanting Anna Karenina, here are 10 wives caught in flagrante delicto by their creators...
View ArticleMartin John by Anakana Schofield review: humane method in story of madness
Mam is at her wit’s end. In fact, she may have given up. She likes to think she hasn’t. After all, aside from all the praying – including an approach made to St Jude – she believes in Martin John:...
View ArticleUCD academic Áine Mahon on Eggshells by Caitriona Lally: ‘a delightful debut’
In Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells we meet Vivian – nine tenths fictional creation and one tenth our own personality. Vivian is independent, creative, brave. She lives alone in Dublin in what was once her...
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