The four artists and writers we are considering were all ... s best films were adaptations of writing by some of the 20th century’s best storytellers. They include Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca ...
Another recurring note, Frank finds, is the 20th century novel ... and how the authors’ awareness and understanding of their own social and political milieus made a great impact on what ...
Stranger Than Fiction is testimony to its author’s sheer appetite for books, and especially for 20th-century fiction at its most testing and ambitious ... Stoner is the story of a man who gives his ...
“Stranger Than Fiction” tells the story of these detonations across the course of the 20th century, focusing on individual works by 30 writers to illustrate the manifold ways novelists kept ...
To coax the greatest pianist of the 20th century into playing you a private recital after dinner? How about watching an impatient Ronald Reagan catwalk across the side of a building and break into ...
This week, non-fiction triumphed with books looking at the literature of the 20th century, the history of British propaganda and a delightful compendium of words for rain well reviewed in the ...