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Annie Proulx

May 2023

  • Unspent passions … Mike Faist as Jack and Lucas Hedges as Ennis in Brokeback Mountain.

    Brokeback Mountain review – perfectly pitched staging of the heartbreaking love story

    The desolately poignant tale is brought into stark relief in Jonathan Butterell’s production through Eddi Reader’s beautiful vocals and a compelling cast

September 2022

  • Annie Proulx, author. for saturday review

    Book of the day
    Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx review – where have all our wetlands gone?

    In beautiful prose, the Pulitzer-winning US novelist offers a powerful indictment of human complicity in environmental destruction

March 2022

  • Benedict Cumberbatch, left, as Phil Burbank, and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Peter Gordon in the film adaptation of The Power of the Dog.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage audiobook review – quietly subversive

    Sparks fly between rancher brothers in this audiobook version of the 1967 novel, read by Chad Michael Collins

October 2020

  • Bill Bryson.

    Books blog
    Bill Bryson says he's retiring – is he really putting away his pen?

    The beloved American author will be sorely missed, but some writers find it hard to call time on a literary career

April 2020

  • a still from the 2001 film of The Shipping News.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about moving

    From John Steinbeck to Annie Proulx, these books capture changing places as a state of mind as much as geography

July 2018

  • What might have been … Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprioon the set of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Matt Damon was approached for Brokeback too.

    Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio turned down Brokeback Mountain

    Original director Gus Van Sant has revealed that multiple A-listers turned down the chance to star in the gay romance

September 2017

  • Annie Proulx.

    Annie Proulx wins high honour for writing on 'the beauty of rural America'

    The Shipping News author joins previous winners of the National Book Foundation’s award such as Toni Morrison, Elmore Leonard and Norman Mailer

March 2017

  • Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 Longlist Announcement

    Baileys prize 2017 longlist – in pictures

  • Composite: Sarah Perry, Margaret Atwood and Annie Proulx. The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

    Baileys women's prize 2017 longlist sees established names eclipse debuts

July 2016

  • The Brownlee Brothers

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: June 2016

    Olympians the Brownlee brothers, author Annie Proulx, actor Jane Horrocks and musician John Grant all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in June

June 2016

  • Trees as Crops, Clearcut in progress, Cowichan Valley, Vancouver island, BC Canada<br>BKTR69 Trees as Crops, Clearcut in progress, Cowichan Valley, Vancouver island, BC Canada

    Barkskins review – a grisly tale of chopping down people and trees

  • Annie Proulx photographed for the Observer Magazine at home in Carnation, WA

    The week in books
    Annie Proulx is retiring, but for how long?

  • Annie Proulx

    Book of the week
    Barkskins by Annie Proulx review – an environmental epic

  • Annie Proulx in a jumper, with short hair and wearing glasses, arms crossed and with a quizzical expression

    Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’

September 2015

  • Morrissey, author of a turkey.

    Forget Morrissey’s ‘bulbous salutation’, here are my good sex awards

    Flic Everett
    The singer’s debut novel has been deservedly mocked for its lurid sex scenes. If only he’d studied Flaubert, Kundera or Chaucer before he started writing …

March 2015

  • Joan Didion

    Readers' favourite books by women

    From Joan Didion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, our readers have been sharing their favourite books by female authors. Ahead of International Women’s Day, here’s our celebration of life-changing, beautiful and inspiring stories by women

February 2015

  • The Fault in Our Stars

    Children's books
    Love against the odds in books, a Valentine's Day special

    Authors can be very cruel about putting barriers to love just for the sake of a great story. James Dawson on the top 10 literary devices for love against the odds, from ‘expiration dating’ (think The Fault in Our Stars) to love triangles (The Hunger Games) to the modern day Romeo and Juliets, the star-crossed lovers of Noughts & Crosses

December 2014

  • Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain.

    Annie Proulx regrets writing Brokeback Mountain? She needs to let it go

    Ryan Gilbey
    Ryan Gilbey: When an author puts her work out into the world, it takes on a life of its own. That’s to be celebrated, even if some fans insist their endings would have been better

June 2014

  • The Musketeers

    Children's books
    I'm ready to read adult fiction – where should I start?

    It can seem daunting, but there's a whole world of books beyond the children's section. Site member Firebird is here with a few commandments for those thinking of taking their first steps...

March 2014

  • Gerard Mortier, opera administrator, has died aged 70

    Gerard Mortier obituary

    Administrator who sought to revolutionise opera, putting his stamp on three major institutions

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