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Nikolai Gogol

May 2024

  • Part Bertie Wooster, part dissolute swindler … Kiell Smith-Bynoe with Dan Skinner in The Government Inspector at Marylebone Theatre.

    The Government Inspector review – Ghosts stars team up for cartoonish corruption satire

    Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Martha Howe-Douglas ably embody Gogol’s schemers, but this show doesn’t hit any 21st-century targets

November 2023

  • The village of Newton St Loe, near Bath. Most of the village is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall

    Time to get rid of a British feudal system that allows royals to rob the dead

    Letters: Readers react to a Guardian investigation into bona vacantia, whereby the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall can collect the estates of the deceased in certain circumstances

May 2022

  • George Saunders

    In brief: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; The Slow Road to Tehran; Drift – review

    George Saunders leads a writing masterclass, Rebecca Lowe goes on a cycling adventure and Caryl Lewis makes a magical English-language fiction debut

April 2022

  • Eugene Hutz in New York.

    ‘We Ukrainians know how to turn suffering into strength’: Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz on his musical resistance

    The raucous Ukraine-born punk frontman has been a tireless cultural ambassador since the Russian invasion. He talks about his benefit single, growing up under Soviet repression, and ‘freedom-fighter’ musicians doing nothing to help

March 2022

  • Flags of Ukraine and Russia painted on cracked wall

    Five of the best books about Russia and Ukraine

  • A sign of solidarity at a Berlin demonstration against the war in Ukraine.

    Beyond the fog of war: books to help us understand the invasion of Ukraine

November 2021

  • Elif Shafak

    The books of my life
    Elif Shafak: ‘Reading Orlando was like plunging into a cold but beautifully blue sea’

    The novelist on her love of Virginia Woolf, being inspired by HG Wells and how Jack Kerouac’s ego puts her off his books

January 2021

  • Author George Saunders photographed by his daughter at home in New York State. 12/12/2020

    Book of the day
    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders review – rules for good writing, and more

  • George Saunders.

    Books interview
    George Saunders: 'These trenches we're in are so deep'

March 2020

  • From left to right, Jermaine Maurice Spivey, Rena Narumi, Doug Letheren and David Raymond in Revisor.

    Revisor review – astonishing take on Gogol demands to be seen again

    Choreographer Crystal Pite and theatre-maker Jonathon Young combine their worlds for a riveting piece

August 2019

  • Philip Glass’s interpretation of The Trial at the Royal Opera House in 2014.

    Top 10s
    From Kafka to Gogol via Pynchon: top 10 absurd quests in fiction

    From seeking how to stop being an ass to finding out where a month has gone missing, these stories are as weird as life

March 2017

  • Passion for the classics … a mural of Vladimir Lenin.

    How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution

    The father of the Soviet Union was also a Latin buff who adored Goethe and liked to compare his enemies to figures in novels

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays

    In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?

August 2015

  • A man plays with his dog.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 dogs' stories

    Heartbreaking tales of love, devotion, innocence – and philosophy. From Homer to Kafka, these works show humanity intimately observed by its best friend

October 2014

  • The Gamblers at Dundee Rep

    The Gamblers review – Gogol’s conmen transformed into women

    Despite a strong ensemble spirit and fluid production, an all-female cast offer no insights into male behaviour, writes Mark Fisher

March 2014

  • Mad Man at Drum theatre, Plymouth

    Mad Man review – Gogol adaptation a compelling portrait of outsidership

    Cartoonish and careering, this play constantly bursts its frame with dance sequences, while Lucy Ellinson's Pushpin is extraordinary, writes Matt Trueman

February 2013

  • Andrew Rannells and the cast of The Book of Mormon at the 65th Annual Tony awards in New York

    Theatre blog
    What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips

    Lyn Gardner: DH Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law sashays into Sheffield, The Book of Mormon previews in the West End and Bristol Old Vic stages a filthy puppet version of the Dream

September 2012

  • A Government Inspector – review

    Gogol's feverish vision gets a brassy Yorkshire reimagining with resounding music, writes Alfred Hickling

June 2012

  • A 19th-century portrait of Nikolai Gogol

    Classics corner
    The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol – review

    Nikolai Gogol's outlandish short stories are comic, sinister and touching, says Edmund Gordon

February 2012

  • Martin Amis

    When writers censor themselves

    Daniel Kalder
    More familiar as a habit of despots, authors themselves quite often make strenuous efforts to suppress their own work
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