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

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

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

At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction n...

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

An account of the life and work of the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), the barely known arti...

The extraordinary life story of science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) who...

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

A portrait of the German-language Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), a mysterious, strange and so...

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to f...

The American writer Stephen King has been one of the world's best-selling authors for decades. How c...

The footage was shot in the writer's room a few days after his death. Everything in the room was unt...

Louis Guilloux (1899-1980) is one of the great figures of 20th-century literature. Rolland Savidan a...

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

The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible...

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

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

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character t...