With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in
May 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about duels
Bewitching writers of a certain romantic, invariably male, predisposition, duels have inspired the likes of Pushkin, Casanova and Chekhov, and some excellent history titles
March 2017
Nicholas Lezard's choice
Like Death by Guy de Maupassant review – a sexy, intoxicating read
Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: newly translated, this heady novel reveals the decadant, suffocating lives of le beau monde in belle époque France
May 2015
Children's books
The Diamond Necklace and other stories by Guy de Maupassant - review
Pheebz: 'If you like unexpected endings, you'll love these stories, especially since Maupassant is such an excellent storyteller'
February 2015
Nicholas Lezard's choice
Penguin Little Black Classics review – affordable snippets of great literature
Nicholas Lezard’s paperbacks of the week: From Homer to Balzac to Darwin to Dickens, these Penguin 80th birthday booklets are where publishing meets public service
May 2013
A brief survey of the short story
A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant
Syphilis, sex and fear: How the French disease conquered the world
March 2012
Bel Ami – review
Robert Pattinson smoulders his way around 19th-century Paris in this hammy Maupassant adaptation, writes Peter Bradhsaw
February 2012
Books blog
Fictional hacks – from Maupassant to Larsson
Journalists have been glamorous social climbers and bumbling fools in fiction – sometimes they've even been feminists and righters of wrongs, says John Dugdale
December 2011
Winter reads
Winter reads: Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
An exceedingly sharp satire of flexible French morals among different classes during the 19th-century German occupation
July 2008
Emile Zola
'The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.'
