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22 Oct 2014:
Jonathan Kent’s production of Britten’s ghost story is revived to haunting effect, with standout central performances from the children, writes Tim Ashley
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13 Aug 2014: The Massachusetts capital has a great literary history that includes crime, satire and children’s books. Here’s a selection of your favourite books about Boston. Add your own below the line
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12 Aug 2014:
Alison Flood: Wharton's autobiography, A Backward Glance, shares a brilliant anecdote about a road trip with the Portrait of a Lady author that is full of twists and turns – and extremely long sentences
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6 Aug 2014:
Charlotte Jones: The capital of New England literature offers many a literary guide through its past, present and future
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28 Jul 2014:
The story of a blighted New York marriage stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture, writes Robert McCrum
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9 Jul 2014:
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 9 July 1959: In his stage adaptation of Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Sir Michael
Redgrave has preserved the mood and manner of the original work, down
to the 'extraordinary convolutions of Jamesian prose'
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4 Jul 2014:
Alice James, younger sister of novelist Henry, is beautifully drawn in this absorbing and moving imaginative biography, writes Jane Housham
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29 May 2014:
Robert McCrum: AQA boss Andrew Hall says 'we can't please everyone' - but he might have done some basic homework before sitting the exam
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26 May 2014:
American literature contains nothing else quite like Henry James's amazing, labyrinthine and claustrophic novel, writes Robert McCrum
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3 Apr 2014:
Moira Redmond: Whether desolate or stirring, what are the lines in literature that turn on your tear ducts
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27 Mar 2014:
In the years before the Great War, artists from Stravinsky to Picasso started rebelling against the old order. Perhaps they already sensed that a catastrophic change was on its way, writes Margaret MacMillan
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22 Mar 2014:
Veronese's work has long been acclaimed for its pomp and celebration – not least by Henry James. Now, the first large-scale exhibition at the National Gallery looks set to expose its drama and depth, writes Michael Prodger
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12 Mar 2014: Nell Frizzell: Novelist Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter's alliance shows how much more than wielding a blade goes into this relationship
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17 Feb 2014:
Inspired by the author's fury at the corrupt state of England, and dismissed by critics at the time, The Way We Live Now is recognised as his masterpiece, writes Robert McCrum
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14 Feb 2014:
On Valentine's Day, take time to celebrate the great tradition of doomed love stories. By Katherine Hill
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