Soon, however, he was back at work. He kept on dragging his cartload: five years for Madame Bovary, seven for Sentimental Education, working fervently at the large round table in the middle of his ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a versatile and influential writer, explored realism and social issues in his vast body of work.

Ryan’s Daughter, starring Sarah Miles and Robert Mitchum, was filmed along the Dingle Peninsula and though it was a box office success, was roundly panned by ...

Joe Morgenstern was the movie critic for The Wall Street Journal. He joined the Journal in May 1995.

Her aliases include the acclaimed Madame Bovary, Madame de Pompadour, and Madame X. She has been portrayed by several actors ...

He said, “You think people are ready for ‘Madame Bovary’? You’re wrong.” Which I know is, like, the greatest validation ever. You adapted Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came ...

Presumably to mark the document as a case study: a note-in-a-bottle from an unmapped psychological terrain now presented for our analysis (think Lolita, think Humbert). As the novel begins the writer ...

This 1970 film by David Lean adapts Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary for the Dingle Peninsula in 1916. It was one of the most epic film shoots Ireland had ever seen - the cast and crew were ...

Nobody writes these reports from the suburban front line with quite the passion, the abrupt insights and kitchen-table candour of Helen Garner. The Spare Room is a quietly devastating book, written ...