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Angela Carter

January 2024

  • A recording underway in The Archers’ studio in Birmingham.

    The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved

    Editorial: Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas

March 2023

  • A wolf howls at a Wolf Conservation Center on December 6, 2020 in South Salem, New York.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 stories about wolves

    Writers including Angela Carter, Karen Russell and Jiang Rong have looked into the eyes of an animal that roams widely through our stories and stalks our collective imagination
  • ‘I got to knock Angela Lansbury’s head off’ … Micha Bergese played the huntsman.

    How we made
    ‘Turning into a wolf was fantastic’: how we made The Company of Wolves

    ‘Our budget was tiny. The forest was 12 trees on rollers – and for long shots we used bonsai. The crew had worked on Star Wars and thought we were absurd’
  • Mayowa Ogunnaike (Gretel) in Hansel and Gretel by Vicki Igbokwe @ The Place Theatre. (Opening 15-12-18)

    Top 10s
    Top 10 retold fairytales

    The best retellings of these archetypal stories can restore a childlike wonder – and offer startling new reflections of the world we live in now

October 2022

  • Angela Lansbury<br>Sarah Patterson & Angela Lansbury Film: The Company Of Wolves (UK 1984) Director: Neil Jordan 15 September 1984 CTL37652 Allstar Picture Library/ITC **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of ITC and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To ITC is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Rosaleen & Granny

    ‘A real subversive, sprightly granny’: working with Angela Lansbury by director Neil Jordan

    Film-maker Neil Jordan cast Angela Lansbury in his exotic horror folk-tale The Company of Wolves, released in 1984. Here he remembers working with an actor who ‘always understood’

July 2022

  • A right pair … Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as as Cersei and Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about twins

    Writers from William Shakespeare to Angela Carter and George RR Martin have been been inspired by the doubled lives of these familial pairs

June 2022

  • A visitor looks at a painting entitled Paysage International-forêt by Yan Pei-Ming in Colmar, France.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 forests in fiction

    Daphne du Maurier, Mervyn Peake and Angela Carter are among the authors enchanted by these shadowy borderlands of civilisation

December 2021

  • Angela Merkel with German army officers

    Angela Merkel bows out to the sound of Beethoven and an East German pop hit

    Military band in Berlin honours departing chancellor of 16 years, who hands over to Olaf Scholz next week

June 2021

  • US trapeze artists perform in an 1890 lithograph.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about circuses and spectacle

  • Susannah Clapp

    Notebook
    No one got Angela Carter like Corinna Sargood

    Susannah Clapp

April 2021

  • Polly Paulusma with dulcimer in arms

    Invisible Music by Polly Paulusma review – a vibrant celebration of Angela Carter the folkie

    The novelist’s early days on the folk scene are explored on this album of songs and readings

March 2021

  • Jessie Greengrass in 2019

    Books that made me
    Jessie Greengrass: 'Frog and Toad Are Friends contains one of the best jokes ever written'

    The author on underrated ‘great of feminist literature’ Gaudy Night, looking forward to every Ian Rankin novel, and never finishing Middlemarch

December 2020

  • Couple reading a book with their feet up in front of fire

    This Christmas, read a story aloud - you'll be surprised by the joy it brings

    With many of us set to spend Christmas on Zoom or the phone, author Sarah Hall shares why dark and daring tales are perfect to read to others - and 10 great stories to try

June 2020

  • Angela Carter, photographed in 1984.

    A book that changed me
    Angela Carter's exploration of life in a female body taught me to be comfortable in my own

    Evie Wyld
    I was 15 and in the bottom set for most subjects at school. The Magic Toyshop changed everything, says author Evie Wyld

February 2020

  • Jenny König as Orlando at the Schaubühne, Berlin

    'Any attempt is perilous!' How do you adapt a novel for the stage?

  • Pip’s first encounter with Magwitch in David Lean’s film of Great Expectations (1947).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 random encounters in literature

September 2019

  • Montage of a selection of early LRB covers

    The LRB is 40. We never thought it would last this long

  • Photo of Angela Carter’s blue plaque on her home in Clapham, London, at 107, The Chase

    Angela Carter's 'carnival' London home receives blue plaque

February 2019

  • Rufus Hound as Sancho and David Threlfall in the title role of the RSC’s production of Don Quixote.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 genre-twisting novels

  • Emma Rice at her office in Bristol

    Director Emma Rice to take over role in Wise Children

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