Best-known today for his novel Man’s Fate, Malraux first traced the steps that Angelina Jolie, as Lara Croft, would walk almost a century later.
Read MoreMost famous for The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished — though now largely forgotten — journalist and short story writer.
Read MoreUruguayan fiction writer, poet and playwright Quiroga was a master of the bizarre but also an ancestor of the magical realists.
Read MoreSixty-one years ago today, during the summer of 1953, Plath was found after attempting suicide for the first time. And it was shaping up to be such a good year ….
Read MoreBest known for his intricate short stories, Jorge Luis Borges wrote considerably more — and some would say better — essays, articles and criticisms.
Read MoreOn what would’ve been the famed author’s 94th birthday, twelves bits of his advice for writers.
Read MoreConsidering his revelry in poetry, sex and rebellion, you might assume that Charles Baudelaire was a man of the political left … but you’d be wrong.
Read MoreComparing passages from Ian McEwan and Ernest Hemingway reveals the power of the simple sentence: its honesty.
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