'Hausfrau' Strips Down Its Modern-Day Madame Bovary
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View ArticleThe Stacks: William Styron was Lit’s Big Game Hunter
A white southerner by birth, Styron scorned the label of regional author—the world was his territory and the bigger the subject the better, from American slavery to the Holocaust. When Philip Caputo...
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 ArticleEggshells by Caitriona Lally review – a daring debut
An eccentric outsider roams around Dublin in an inventive and moving debut...
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 Article'Madame Bovary' returns to speak to modern condition in two distinct films
It would seem unlikely that a story about a 19th century young French woman escaping her marriage and tedious provincial life by embarking on scandalous affairs would have much appeal to 21st century...
View ArticleWriters pick the best books of 2014: part 2
From Britain’s brilliantly inventive Ali Smith to America’s master storyteller Richard Ford, from Michael Lewis’s cautionary tale of Wall Street renegades to Henry Marsh’s candid account of...
View ArticleMadame Bovary is Half of a Haunted, Remarkably Empathetic Film
On its surface, Sophie Barthes’s film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary comes at us like a musty blast of Quality – what...
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 Article'Bovery' or 'Bovary,' story still works
When in 1857, Gustav Flaubert published his now-classic novel, "Emma Bovary," about a wife's infidelity, the writer was brought to trial (and acquitted) for immorality, overlooking the work's profound...
View ArticleReview: Uninspired And Disengaged 'Madame Bovary' Starring Mia Wasikowska
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View ArticleKetil Bjornstad: ‘The novel is the best weapon against multi-tasking’
Ketil Bjornstad is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author. ketilbjornstad.com What was the first book to make an impression on you? It must have been Saint Exupéry, The little Prince. My father read...
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 ArticleJames Carol: ‘The story comes first, then the facts’
James Carol is the Scottish-born author of the Jefferson Winter series of thriller novels - the third, Prey, has just been published by Faber. He lives in Hertfordshire. What was the first book to make...
View ArticleA sneak preview of next Saturday’s books coverage in The Irish Times
On the fiction front this week, Irish Times crime-writing columnist Declan Burke reviews Belfast Noir, a Northern anthology edited by Stuart Neville and Adrian McKinty. Eileen Battersby reviews Uppsala...
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