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Paul Bowles

June 2019

  • JUNE 2019_LONDON; Sian Cain is the Guardian’s books site editor. (Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Inside the Guardian
    Guardian Books: 'You can tell a lot about a country by how it treats its libraries'

    The books site editor on the challenges facing publishers, and who she would invite to her dream dinner party

August 2018

  • Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice: ‘Astonishing book – but might also result in you considering walking into the sea.’

    Reading group
    Reading group: which novel set on holiday should we read this month?

    Whether we’re being taken on vacation by Ernest Hemingway or Esther Freud, this month’s reading is likely to be melancholy, hedonistic or both

May 2018

  • Debra Winger in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1990 film of The Sheltering Sky.

    Top 10s
    Carys Davies’ top 10 wilderness books

    From Eric Newby’s bliss in the Hindu Kush to Paul Bowles’s Saharan horrors, the novelist shares her favourite visions of unfathomable territory

March 2018

  • People on street of Tangier, Morocco

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books based in Tangier

    From William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to Paul Bowles’s translations of Moroccan authors, here are the best novels set in the city

May 2016

  • The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers film still

    The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers review – brutal essay on orientalism

    Ben Rivers’ challenging film adapts a Paul Bowles short story about a high-handed European in Morocco to chilling effect

February 2016

  • Great partnerships... Stephen King’s It and Pet Shop Boys, Donna Tartt’s Secret History with the American Beauty soundtrack, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with Beach House, and Kings of Convenience with Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.

    Bookish blasts
    The best books-and-music pairings

    Listening to music and reading not only can go together, but can make fantastic partners and intensify both experiences. Here are your favourite pairings – with couples like Stephen King and Petshop Boys, sci-fi and Aphex Twin or Atwood and Beach House

August 2015

  • John Malkovich and Debra Winger in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1990 film of The Sheltering Sky.

    Journeys in literature
    The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles – a cautionary tale for tourists

    This account of a jaundiced progress around north Africa is a bleak reminder of the perils that lie within the romantic idea of travel

October 2012

  • Desert shadows

    Scary stories for Halloween
    Scary stories for Halloween: A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles

    Sam Jordison: The fate of a hapless professor in Morocco taking one wrong turn too many is the focus of this profoundly unsettling tale

December 2009

  • Paul Bowles in his flat in Tangier, 1956

    Me, Paul Bowles and that forgotten night in Tangier

    A documentary on the American author triggered a memory of a disturbing night at the writer's apartment that had been suppressed for 40 years

February 2009

  • Paul Bowles in his flat in Tangier.

    The Digested Read podcast
    The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

  • Digested classics
    The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

February 2008

  • Gospel according to Paul

    To mark The Observer's giveaway next week of The Sheltering Sky on DVD, Philip French celebrates the remarkable life of the novel's author, Paul Bowles

November 1999

  • Paul Bowles

  • Paul Bowles dies under Morocco's sheltering sky

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