IT WOULD BE hard, Gabriel García Márquez thought, to do justice to the surreal, sprawling tale on screen. By his reckoning, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, his celebrated novel of 1967, would need a ...

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The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision. By Gregory Cowles Gregory Cowles is a senior editor at ...

This summer, American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is bringing five stunning ballets to the Metropolitan Opera House stage. Four are based on great works of literature, three are repertory favorites, two are ...

In late October, actors Ron Perlman and Sharon Stone, sitting across from each other in Cedering Fox’s home in Studio City, were rehearsing a dramatic reading of Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy ...

Feel as if Lost is sometimes made up as its going along without a lot of forethought? JJ Abrams would like to confirm your suspicions… And then compare it to classic literature because of that. As ...

It looks like some of the world’s best novels are ready to explore unmarked ground. After all, classics like The Great Gatsby are on the docket to get their own manga courtesy of Kadokawa. The company ...

The fifth edition of the Green Literature Festival (GLF), the country’s only literary festival dedicated to environmental ...