The moral agent
Joseph
Conrad wrote action-packed adventure stories, which were also modernist
classics. Giles Foden celebrates an enduring master on the 150th
anniversary of his birth
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American Everyman
Richard
Ford's trilogy about a sportswriter turned estate agent spans 21 years
and made his name. But he is also a master of the short story and has
edited a new collection
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In your dreams
The
story of a boy whose magic beans sprout into a giant stalk ... what
does a Freudian reading of Jack and the Beanstalk tell us about growing
up, getting the girl - and keeping your mother happy, asks
pychotherapist Adam Phillips
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What a carve-up
More
and more modern classics are appearing 'restored', with the handiwork
of editors removed. Is it mere meddling or vital to understanding
authors' intentions, asks James Campbell
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Survivor's tale
Rereading:
Sarah Hall, who won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize this week, on how the
controversial, post-apocalyptic, 1970s children's book Z for Zachariah
inspired her love of reading and her own futuristic novel
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How I entered the world of Lanark
Guardian book club: Alasdair Gray on how he came to write his seminal novel |
