Nobel Prize for Literature

Angela Carter was a master of radio drama

29 September 2018 9:00 am

The writer Angela Carter (born in 1940) grew up listening to the wireless, her love of stories, magic and the…

Face value: Glenn Close as Joan Castleman in The Wife showing how much can be expressed with the tremor of an eyelid

Glenn Close rescues this clumsy new adaptation: The Wife reviewed

29 September 2018 9:00 am

The Wife is an adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel (2003) and stars Glenn Close. Her performance is better than…

Haunted by the Holocaust: Three novellas by Patrick Modiano

6 December 2014 9:00 am

Earlier this year Patrick Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for the art of memory with which he has…

Alice Munro won't let her Nobel go to her head — that's why she's a true Canadian writer

19 October 2013 9:00 am

Alice Munro may be the most Canadian writer in the world. That’s why Canadians can’t quite believe her achievement