Recorded readings of Swiss writer Robert Walser's late texts and micrographs join with documentary tableaux of his long array of residences, leaving behind a disembodied image.

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

After Portnoy's Complaint launched him as a new literary voice, not to mention a scandalous one, Phi...

This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant...

Documentary about the Dutch author, illustrator and performer Joke van Leeuwen, who has won various ...

A&E's long-running biography series takes a look at one of the 20th century's most emblematic figure...

Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de La...

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads...

The documentary is a true story of four real intellectual Europeans from different cultures who are ...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south c...

Documentary about the author Jan Myrdal and his strange friendship with Lasse Diding, founder of the...

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

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard pu...

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...