Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe

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Books by authors like Neil Gaiman and Gabriel García Márquez have been dismissed as too difficult to adapt. With Netflix offering both time and cash, is that true anymore?

In characters such as Scrooge, Ira Ringold and Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, those society seeks to exclude and expel make for compelling reading

The novelist on admiring Maggie Nelson and Rachel Kushner, and being irritated by William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

From William Faulkner to John Kennedy Toole, Alex Preston selects authors who evoke America’s civil rights history

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Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure

From Marilynne Robinson to William Faulkner, these great stories are told from the margins of US life, but they carry profound resonance

After deciding that Faulkner’s hometown – Oxford, Mississippi – needed a bookstore, a husband and wife team opened Square Books in 1979. Its booksellers speak about their strangest regular and the one time they washed a customer’s car...

William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce are all described with a novelist’s eye for the tragedy and absurdity of life

From Marilynne Robinson’s pensive Christian drama to Seamus Heaney’s blood-soaked Beowulf, here are the best books about restoring the cosmic balance

After the horrors of the early 20th century, a generation of writers and thinkers questioned the purpose of humanity as never before