John Calder, Samuel Beckett’s British publisher, moved to Montreuil, a town to the east of Paris, where Calder met with Billie Whitelaw, the muse, so to speak, of Beckett’s stage work, who is now relegated to a nursing home for actors.
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten film...
An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjel...
A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth, film and television personalities tak...
Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...
San Francisco's North Beach in the 50's - A mix of jazz, poetry and art - The Beach recreates the at...
THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab...
An in-depth look at the Canadian rock band Rush, chronicling the band's musical evolution from their...
Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...
In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labele...
Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...
Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...
The documentary is a true story of four real intellectual Europeans from different cultures who are ...
The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...
Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Mura...
An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem ...
Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...
In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his...