A review of The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka's story in which the unsettling thing is not the protagonist's transformation, but how quickly his family adapts to it.
A review of The House of Bernarda Alba, Federico García Lorca's last play: five sisters shut in, a village that watches and a suitor who never appears on stage.
A review of The Little Prince, the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that greetings cards have flattened, and which is far stranger and sadder than most readers remember.
John Banville relaunches The Infinities (2009), his first novel after the Booker Prize: a playful, melancholy exploration of mortality, narrated by the god Hermes in a decaying manor house in the Irish countryside.
A review of Aquí me paro, the posthumous collection of more than sixty texts by Javier Marías written between 2001 and 2020, which reads as an intellectual self-portrait of the author of A Heart So White.
Peanuts has already celebrated a 75th birthday. We look back at the 1950 debut of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, their rise to a global phenomenon, the life of Charles M. Schulz and the illustrated book that celebrates the legendary comic strip.
