Madame bovary

Will this century see the end of books?

29 August 2026 9:00 am

James Marriott warns of the threat to truth and the flourishing of mad fantasies as we become increasingly reliant on screens for online information and entertainment

Gemma Arterton as Gemma Bovery, the male sexual fantasy made flesh, and Fabrice Luchini as Joubert

Male order

22 August 2015 9:00 am

Gemma Bovery is a modern-day refashioning of Gustave Flaubert’s literary masterpiece Madame Bovary, and while such refashionings can work well…

‘Combs, Hair Highway’, 2014, by Studio Swine

Designer fatigue

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Different concepts of luxury may be inferred from a comparison of the wedding feast of Charles Bovary and Emma Rouault…

Booked for a world tour

28 February 2015 9:00 am

One day in 2011, while perusing her bookshelves, Ann Morgan realised her reading habits were (to her surprise) somewhat parochial.…