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.
Ana Zuazo interviews baritone Marco Moncloa on zarzuela — its history and future, a vocation inherited from his orchestra-conductor mother, and L’Operamore’s tour of Latin America.
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.
