Jonathan Burton on Illustrating Fiction
When interpreting a book, an illustrator has to balance his own imagination with the responsibility he has to the story and the reader. In my ...
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William Butcher on In Translation
Five different languages gave birth to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Albert Camus’s The Outsider, Ivan Turgenev’s First Love, Mario Vargas Llosa’s The War ...
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Steve Erickson on From Book to Film
Spanning 128 years and three or four different genres, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, John le Carré’s Tinker ...
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John Sutherland on World Fiction
The GBP – the Great British Public – is undergoing a historic change in its reading practices. The canary in the cage evidence is in ...
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My favourite bookshop: Rye Books, East Dulwich
One of my favourite bookshops is Rye Books in East Dulwich. I often pop in to browse around, and I am always impressed by the ...