The mega-bestselling author Matt Haig and the limits of the therapy novel. Read more
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Month: September 2024
Was the ‘Worst Novelist in History’ In on the Joke?
Over the course of her career, [Amanda McKittrick] Ros became better and better at writing badly, and her popularity soared as a result. In this regard, she bears comparison with the New York socialite and singer Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944), whose operatic warbling was so popular that tickets for her show at Carnegie Hall sold out within two hours. Perhaps Ros was living in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance, or perhaps she accepted the ridicule as consolation for her fame. A more intriguing possibility is that she was engaged in an elaborate form of trolling. Read more
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The Latest Adaptation of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is a Grand, Robustly Entertaining Spectacle
Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s rollicking, expensive French blockbuster is a fittingly bold take on Dumas’s 1,300 page revenge-tale. Watch trailer
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