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Carson McCullers

July 2024

  • A black and white image of Marlon Brando in a cap-sleeved T-shirt.

    Book of the day
    Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

    A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

July 2021

  • Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch in the film version of Ghost World.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 stories about bored teenagers

  • Siobhan Finneran as Clare Cartwright in Happy Valley

    Time to face the brutal truth: there’s no glamour at the bottom of a glass

May 2021

  • Carson McCullers

    Observer book of the week
    My Autobiography of Carson McCullers review – identity parade

    Jenn Shapland’s insistence on reducing Carson McCullers’s life story to a modish account of her sexuality makes no sense

May 2020

  • Office in a Small City 1953 Edward Hopper American United States of American<br>Office in a Small City 1953 Edward Hopper American United States of American

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about silence

    Not saying anything can be as eloquent as speech, as told by authors from ranging from Pat Barker to Carson McCullers and Ian McEwan

December 2019

  • James Norton

    On my radar
    On my radar: James Norton’s cultural highlights

    The actor on the visceral emotion of Sharon Van Etten, a historic New York jazz bar and a provocative Broadway sensation

March 2019

  • Ean Higgins, Monica Tan and Dominic Kelly

    Bookmark this
    Carrie Tiffany, Ean Higgins, Dominic Kelly and others on what they're reading in March

    Books about witches, climbing Mount Kosciuszko, Nazi explorers in Tibet and the disappearance of flight MH370 are out this month

June 2018

  • Love frustrated ... detail from Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday.

    Top 10s
    From Dante to I Love Dick: top 10 books about unrequited love

    Novelist Kirsty Gunn chooses books that explore a very literary kind of longing

February 2017

  • CARSON McCULLERS (1917-1967) American author and playwright about 1955. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.<br>FB4N1F CARSON McCULLERS (1917-1967) American author and playwright about 1955. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.

    Books blog
    Carson McCullers at 100: a century of American suffering

    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, her debut novel of desolate southern lives, made McCullers an instant star – something she never fully recovered from

October 2016

  • Suzanne Vega.

    Suzanne Vega: ‘It’s taken me a while to say, You are what you are, it’s fine’

    The 80s pop-folk star talks about her confused identity growing up, and her new album about US writer Carson McCullers

June 2014

  • Marguerite Duras

    'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank

    The long list of male alcoholic authors is well known, but what about their literary sisters? Olivia Laing looks back on the great female writers who sought refuge in the bottle and salvation on the page

December 2013

  • Carson McCullers and Thomas Pynchon

    The great American novelist tournament
    Who is the greatest American novelist? 6: Thomas Pynchon v Carson McCullers

  • Alice Munro

    Nobel prizewinner Alice Munro: 'It's a wonderful thing for the short story'

June 2012

  • Carson Mccullers

    Overlooked classics of American literature
    Overlooked classics: The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers

    Tom Cox: Despite the author's small canvas, her portrayal of an awkward, outcast and overambitious innocence has a perfectionist's touch

November 2011

  • Alice Munro

    A brief survey of the short story
    A brief survey of the short story part 37: Alice Munro

    Chris Power: The easy, conversational flow of her stories conceals an almost Proustian complexity of construction

September 2011

  • The Outsiders

    Top 10s
    Megan Abbott's top 10 novels of teenage friendship

    From Charles Dickens to Donna Tartt, the novelist chooses the best depictions of the angst-ridden alliances formed as adult life begins

August 2011

  • Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and Truman Capote

    Rereading
    Rereading: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

    Rupert Thomson: In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's forensic account of real-life murder in Kansas remains as unsettling as ever

October 2010

  • Eudora Welty

    A brief survey of the short story
    A brief survey of the short story part 29: Eudora Welty

    Her reputation as a regionalist tends to obscure the rich sophistication of the work

March 2008

  • 'Vain, querulous and a genius'

    With her portraits of oddbods and adolescent girls, Carson McCullers has captured the hearts of generations of readers. Just don't be fooled by her apparent innocence. Her novels are darker and more political than they might seem, argues Ali Smith

September 2007

  • Agitprop lite and big hearts in the South

    Theatre roundup: King Cotton | The Member of the Wedding | Moonwalking in Chinatown

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