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William Golding

March 2023

  • Aki Nakagawa, Patrick Dineen, Jason Battersby, Nate Leung, Justice Ezi, Sade Malone in Lord of the Flies. Photograph Anthony Robling

    Lord of the Flies review – school staple is bang up to date for world on the brink

    Amy Leach’s production evokes a very current crop of anxieties with the castaways excellently played by a young cast

February 2023

  • Flies at Shoreditch Town Hall, London.

    Flies review – the effects of the male gaze on adolescent girls

    The new work by Charlie Josephine gives us teenagers’ thoughts about objectification, shame, body image and sex

April 2022

  • LORD OF THE FLIES 1990 Columbia film<br>LORD OF THE FLIES 1990 Columbia film

    Brief letters
    Lord of the Flies is surely fit for the Queen?

    Brief letters: William Golding and the Big Jubilee Read | Graham Greene | Steps at St Paul’s Cathedral | Priti Patel’s TV lesson | A new title for The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

March 2022

  • Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in the 2006 film of Notes on a Scandal.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about toxic friendships

    Complex attachments mixing intimacy and deception can decide whole lives, and have inspired novelists from William Thackeray to Elena Ferrante

July 2021

  • Rathbones Folio Prize<br>Undated handout photo issued by Rathbones Folio Prize showing Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid Of Black Conch, one of the shortlisted books for the prize, British and Irish writers make up six of the eight slots on this year’s list. Issue date: Wednesday February 10, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story ARTS Rathbones. Photo credit should read: Marcus Bastel/Rathbones Folio Prize/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Books that made me
    Monique Roffey: ‘William Golding’s The Inheritors gave me ideas for how I could write a mermaid’

    The Costa winner on the James Baldwin novel she most cherishes, devouring Willard Price adventures as a child, and the sex scene she wishes she had written

June 2021

  • Numero uno … actor Paul O’Hanrahan performs the Calypso chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses for Bloomsday in Dublin in 2008.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels told in a single day

    From James Joyce and Virginia Woolf to Nicholson Baker, the ‘circadian novel’ can pack lifetimes of experience into 24 hours

February 2021

  • Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel, in the 2013 film of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about castaways

    From the dark visions in Lord of the Flies or The Beach to the gentle wit of Tove Jansson, author Lucy Clarke picks her favourites tales of survival and isolation

August 2020

  • A scene from On The Town in 2017m

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Great outdoors: the magic of Regent's Park Open Air theatre – in pictures

    Theatre has returned to Regent’s Park in London with a socially distanced revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, plus comedy nights under the stars. We look back at memorable past productions

May 2020

  • William Golding

    William Golding did not smack his kids

    Letters: Judy Golding Carver, the daughter of the Lord of the Flies author, says he did not beat either of his children
  • Rutger Bregman

    Rutger Bregman: the Dutch historian who rocked Davos and unearthed the real Lord of the Flies

    The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, Humankind. It couldn’t have come at a better time
  • A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

    The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

    When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

December 2019

  • Thomas Michael Keneally

    Books that made me
    Thomas Keneally: ‘Does anyone write a good book at 83? Well, I think I have’

    The Australian novelist on crying over a Dickens biography, laughing at Kathy Lette and the classic he is ashamed not to have read

August 2019

  • Smoke from a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on 17 August 2019.

    Amazon fires: why ecocide must be recognised as an international crime

    Letters: Simon Surtees says the burning Brazilian forest is redolent of the plot of Lord of the Flies; Stefan Simanowitz writes that it’s time ecocide joined genocide as a named crime; while John Charlton despairs at the race in aviation to fly longer and faster

July 2019

  • Mia Wasikowska in STC’s Lord of the Flies, 2019. Photo © Zan Wimberley

    Lord of the Flies review – confronting the carnage of toxic masculinity

  • Eliza Scanlen, left, as Eric and Daniel Monks as Roger rehearse Lord of the Flies Photo credit Hon Boey

    Reinventing Lord of the Flies: chaos, cruelty and not an alpha male in sight

June 2019

  • Geoffrey Faber, centre, and TS Eliot, left, at a Faber & Faber directors meeting in 1944 to discuss how best to use the paper ration.

    Faber & Faber: by Toby Faber review – the untold story of a publishing giant

    They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literature

April 2019

  • People attend a Good Friday "Stations of the Cross" procession, as part of Holy Week celebrations, along the banks of the River Seine near Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris<br>People attend a Good Friday "Stations of the Cross" procession, as part of Holy Week celebrations, along the banks of the River Seine, near Notre-Dame Cathedral devastated by a fire at the start of the week, in Paris, France, April 19, 2019. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

    Notre Dame’s place in history

    Letters: Readers respond to the plans to rebuild the French cathedral

January 2019

  • Black sheep amongst white Icelandic sheep.<br>BRNY27 Black sheep amongst white Icelandic sheep.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which books show how group scenarios corrupt the individual?

    Intrigued by peer pressure or power plays? Our expert suggests novels and psychoanalysis that get a grip on group politics

October 2018

  • Fierce charisma … Kate Lamb (second from left) leads the pack in Lord of the Flies.

    Lord of the Flies review – all-female cast tears up public school rulebook

    William Golding’s fable of desert-island anarchy is reinvented for the modern age in Emma Jordan’s brutal, bold production

August 2018

  • In 1993 the first biennial David Cohen prize for literature was awarded to VS Naipaul.

    Letter: VS Naipaul obituary

    Alastair Niven writes: VS Naipaul, in a marvellous acceptance speech, spoke of his debt to the UK
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