The Odyssey' is Hollywood's newest blockbuster. But it's also Western Civilization's oldest — and most influential — story ...

Tributes to a former professional football player and coach are among those being paid in The Chronicle deaths and funeral announcements this week. Announcing the passing of a loved one in local news ...

Bret Easton Ellis’s murderous banker has morphed from a satire of 1980s Wall Street culture into an hero for the very workers ...

This fifth entry in the Evil Dead film series tested so well that Warner Bros. opted to release it in theaters rather than its intended streaming-only release. The jump-scare-laden film follows Beth ...

John Lanchester, whose latest novel is “Look What You Made Me Do,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded May 6, 2026 via computer. John Lanchester is the author of five previous novels, one ...

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John Lanchester’s new novel offers a darkly funny vision of bitter London professionals By Zoe Guttenplan At the beginning of Look What You Made Me Do, Kate, one of the novel’s two narrators, recounts ...

John Lanchester, Patmeena Sabit and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments I find it hard to read contemporary fiction while I’m ...

Por Enrique Planas 31/03/2026, 09:15 a.m. El 18 de julio de 1822 apareció sobre la playa de Viareggio, Italia, el cadáver de Percy Bysshe Shelley, el más grande poeta lírico de Inglaterra, que el mar ...

In the 91 years since her cinematic debut in Bride of Frankenstein, few tales have successfully expanded her story. Though literature has provided some excellent attempts (most notably Fraulein ...

“Every successful marriage,” begins John Lanchester’s novel, “has its own private language.” It could almost be a line written by Anne Tyler, the American laureate of middle-aged relationships, who ...

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