| 单词 | novella |
| 例句 | As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Not since her week in Primrose Hill, typing out the novella, and what a foolish excitement that seemed now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella—and was necessary to it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Anchoring BAMcinématek’s five-film retrospective of Rohmer’s period films, “The Marquis of O...” is a visually rapturous adaptation of a Heinrich von Kleist novella about a virtuous woman and her mysterious pregnancy. Movie Listings for Aug. 28-Sept. 3 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z That would put the novella, which tells the story of a newborn vampire briefly mentioned in the “Twilight” novel “Eclipse,” on pace to be the best-selling book of the year. Burying Bram Stoker Again: Another Best-Seller for 'Twilight' Book Franchise 2010-06-28T18:36:00Z Yet the effect of a fairy tale, a designation often applied to Meijer’s work — a previous collection of stories, “Heartbreaker,” and a novella, “Northwood” — depends on its clear delineation of good and evil. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z She had published some short stories and a novella, but it would be months before her first novel, “Eileen,” would earn her a living, a place on the Booker Prize shortlist, a name. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z His plots are minimal and meandering, as the novels and novellas are heavy on character development and reflection. Want to reject America’s Puritanism, workaholism and toxic obsession with stuff? Read Jim Harrison’s brilliant books 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Tolstoy wrote about the unsettling first movement in his novella “The Kreutzer Sonata,” whose protagonist, after hearing his wife play the piece with her violin teacher, stabs her to death in a jealous rage. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z And, more to the point, how might you combine a dystopian novella based on these questions with the work of 20 different graphic artists to form a coherent exhibition? Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z Kress’s novel, the first of a projected trilogy, is based on her Nebula Award-winning novella of the same name. Best new science fiction for summer 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z So brief as to almost be a novella, it ends abruptly and harshly. 'Netsuke:' Rikki Ducornet's novel of a marriage on the edge 2011-04-20T21:35:04Z Comprising a title novella and stories, this prescient and wide-ranging debut depicts finely drawn Black characters awash in microaggressions across Virginia, past and present. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In Benjamin Britten’s opera — with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 Henry James novella — an absentee guardian hires a governess to care for his orphaned young nephew, Miles, and niece, Flora. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z He was just 30, and it was a trial book, a novella more than a fully realized novel. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z That middle zone, however: His finest efforts emerge from this territory, shorter novels "Misery," "Joyland" and "The Shining," novellas such as "The Body" or the chilling "A Good Marriage." Stephen King's 'Bazaar of Bad Dreams' pulls us in and then out 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z But more significantly, the novella will be the first offering of Infamous Books, a new imprint overseen by Mr. Johnson and his manager, Marvis Johnson. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z Some are very short, others as long as novellas, including the classic "War Dances" and "The Search Engine." Q&A: Author Sherman Alexie on 'Blasphemy' 2012-09-28T23:12:03Z This is, after all, just a comic novella set in an alternate 1950s — nothing to do with the real world. Science fiction: ‘The Madonna and the Starship,’ by James Morrow The first of the three novellas, “Afterimage,” opens this way: ‘Suspended Sentences’: An eloquent taste of the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in literature They will be working on The Old Woman, based on a 1930s absurdist novella by a Russian writer, Danill Kharms, who would die a few years later in a prison camp, aged just 36. Manchester International Festival: Shelley, Macbeth and Massive Attack 2013-02-28T18:47:26Z It was only when he returned to Hong Kong in 2003, after his mother suffered a stroke, that he was approached about making a film from one of Chang’s novellas. Chinese Writer Cements a Legacy 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z It would be possible, in fact, to compile a tidy version of that book simply from this book’s better novella, “The Land of Unlikeness,” the one about the aging academic, whose name is Clive. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z He followed it with a collection of short stories and several novellas but stopped publishing in 1965 and withdrew from public view. New footage 'added' to Salinger film 2013-09-23T11:10:16Z The movie, based on the Doris Lessing novella “The Grandmothers,” was shown in festivals as “Two Mothers.” Movie Review: ‘Adore’ Gives Young Lovers to Robin Wright and Naomi Watts 2013-09-05T21:32:42Z Two “lifers,” locked up together indefinitely in Shawshank prison, form a bond that transcends decades of their lives and, ultimately, their own incarcerations in this heart-wrenching adaptation of a novella by Stephen King. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Readers of Modiano will find the scenario familiar; it forms the substance of his novella "Suspended Sentences," and references to it also appear in "Pedigree," which tells the story of the author's early years. Patrick Modiano's many detours into echoes, longings and tension 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z James Joyce's "The Dead" as novella, film, and play, the last reviewed byCharles Isherwood, Dec. 8, 2016.Couple of corrections are in... Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z A novella and three stories display McCann’s empathetic imagination and belief in the capabilities of literature. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The novella had an especially powerful effect on the author’s wife, Sofiya. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Your new novella, “A Whole Life,” is also set in the mountains, in this case the Austrian Alps . Robert Seethaler Talks About His New Book, Writing and Acting 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Like many of Colette’s works, the novella is both cynical and deeply human — effervescent, yes, but with tragic notes. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Fernández had already masterfully recounted that story in her 2013 novella “Space Invaders,” but this new book exposes the motive behind those murders. When a Nation’s Torturous Past Resembles ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Written and directed by Derek Goldman, based on the novella by Jerome K. Jerome; sound design, Thomas Sowers; music director, Joshua Morgan. Synetic Theater’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’ works hard for its comedy “Widow’s Point,” a collaborative novella by the father-son team of Richard and Billy Chizmar, is an epistolary rendering of a classic horror trope: a psychic investigator’s encounter with a Bad Place and its animating spirits. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Laser adapted the script from Dostoevsky's 1864 novella, "Notes From the Underground," itself an inconsistent, alternately apologetic and aggressive address about the relationship between self-interest and the social good. Liz Magic Laser subversively splits medium from message 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z King, 62, announced on his website last month that his next book will be a collection of four previously unpublished novellas called "Full Dark, No Stars." Stephen King puts the frights into baseball 2010-03-31T11:28:00Z An unconsummated long-distance passion that resists the erosion of time and memory is the subject of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s posthumously published novella, “Journey Into the Past.” Movie Review: ‘A Promise,’ With Alan Rickman and Rebecca Hall 2014-04-18T02:10:27Z The stealth complexity and the mechanics of Murakami’s storytelling are laid bare in “The Strange Library” ’s novella form, partly because its sentences are so spare and its plot so fast. Illustrating Murakami 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z As its title suggests, the novella is too open in its desire to settle scores, too much like a catalogue of complaints. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “Do I respect women?” asks the protagonist of this novella about a book editor brought low in the #MeToo era. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It isn’t enough for audience members to know the story’s outline in advance, or even to have read the novella. ‘The Hunting Gun’ Review: Letters to Burn After Reading 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Stefan Zweig was extremely famous throughout the world as a writer of novellas and short stories, as well as popular histories and biographies, so it is remarkable that he wrote only one full-length novel. Rereading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 2011-07-15T21:55:08Z “The Turn of the Screw,” Britten’s 1954 adaptation of the Henry James novella concerning restless ghosts and corrupted innocents, is smaller, subtler and less widely exposed. Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ by Opera Moderne, at Symphony Space 2012-05-28T22:04:32Z Those lines echo through the title story, a novella about a retired judge in New York City. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Mo has published 11 novels so far, as well as dozens of short stories and novellas. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z The film is based on an 1808 novella by Heinrich von Kleist. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z After all, this novella is essentially a story of liberation and of never losing yourself, no matter what you endure or how often people tell you you're nothing. Leigh Bardugo's top 10 childhood reads 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z Sarah Gerard considers this doomed beauty from every angle in her haunting debut novella, "Binary Star." Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Hill's creepy novella had been published a few years earlier, in 1983. The Woman in Black's reign of terror 2012-10-28T17:59:01Z In the interim, the sisters published the thriller "The Killing Song" and novella "Claw Back," which reprised Kincaid in shorter form. P.J. Parrish returns to Louis Kincaid novels after breather 2013-03-06T22:13:50Z Other things have, well, evolved in the Paris of 1900, as adapted from Colette’s novella. Kennedy Center’s Broadway-bound ‘Gigi,’ starring Vanessa Hudgens, affirms its undistinguished status 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z This novella is marketed as fantasy, but it does the very real and important work of opening up new ways to think about the legacy of slavery. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z A poem can achieve perfection — not a word you’d want to change — and in rare instances a novella can too. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z The Borgias have inspired, among other works, a Donizetti opera, a novella by Alexandre Dumas and Mario Puzo’s last book, a history of the Borgias as the “first” crime family. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z In this famous prison movie, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella, he is the hero’s friend Red and the film’s narrator; his utterly distinctive voice confers a kind of wisdom on the whole movie. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Carmen” began as a Frenchman’s fantasy of Spain, first in a novella by Prosper Mérimée and then, immortally, in Bizet’s opera. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z All three novellas feature different forms of disappearance. The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai ? review 2011-08-25T23:05:01Z On Tuesday, the Cineteca di Bologna, an Italian film restoration institute, will release a previously unpublished novella by Charlie Chaplin, which inspired his 1952 film, “Limelight,” widely considered his last great film. ArtsBeat: Unpublished Chaplin Novella to Be Released 2014-02-03T16:01:03Z We named him after the author whose novella about fly-fishing and Montana transformed both. The backstory for ‘A River Runs Through It’ has arrived, 45 years later 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Vox, Baker's much admired 1992 novella, took the trouble to engage you in the lives of its two strangers talking dirty to each other down the phone. House of Holes by Nicholson Baker ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:01Z I also wrote a novella in which a retired professor, who is an obsessed reader of Lawrence, tries to remake a girl’s life according to her own will. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Such traits might make this revival an excellent audiovisual aid for middle-school instructors who are teaching Steinbeck’s novella. Theater Review: James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-04-17T02:00:12Z “Cloud Atlas,” which was published to great critical acclaim and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004, is really six interlocking novellas nestled inside one another. ‘Cloud Atlas,’ as Rendered by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis 2012-10-09T23:05:27Z The novellas reference each other in subtle ways throughout, but also reference a number of other early King works. Rereading Stephen King: Different Seasons 2013-01-15T11:10:21Z This sumptuous adaptation of the James Joyce novella throws its final holiday dinner party. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z She is also working on a screenplay of The Winter Ghosts, her stand-alone novella published in 2009. Kate Mosse play 'for older women' 2012-07-17T11:34:40Z So let’s dispense with the action in these novellas. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z Steinbeck also describes what happens to those whom the societal phalanx rolls over, like the two hapless wanderers Lennie and George in the 1937 novella “Of Mice and Men.” Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Her new book, a collection of Outlander novellas titled “Seven Stones to Stand or Fall,” will be released in June. Review | ‘The Confessions of Young Nero,’ by Margaret George 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z "Apocalypse Now" A superb title, almost as superb as the filmmakers' decision not to remain faithful to the Conrad novella. The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z Phoebe and Sally needed material, and I needed to keep the novellas coming. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, a novella, will now be published on 5 June by Little Brown imprint Atom at £11.99. Stephenie Meyer to publish new Twilight novella 2010-03-30T14:47:00Z His other work includes “The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln,” a novella, and the kid-friendly series “Superman Adventures.” Scott McCloud’s New Graphic Novel Is ‘The Sculptor’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Self, the author of six novels, four story collections, three books of novellas and five works of nonfiction, is almost as notorious for his rakish behavior as he is for his writing. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z The novella's strength is in its precise rendering of decaying bodies — both heavenly and corporeal — while maintaining a sense of ever-present longing. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Vann declined, and the central part of “Legend of a Suicide,” the novella “Sukkwan Island,” imagines, with a surprising twist, what might have happened if he had said yes. The Family History Is Grim, but He?s Plotted a New Course 2011-01-14T22:35:51Z We spent the afternoon talking, and the next day, after reading the novella, Phoebe emailed me. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z In the fifth of our dispatches from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella The Heart of Darkness – we hear from award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff. Guardian Artangel books podcast: Maya Jasanoff 2012-06-20T14:28:00Z The exhibition title, taken from Samuel Beckett’s 1983 novella, Worstward Ho, emphasizes the unpredictable nature of working with clay, which often involves multiple attempts at firing, glazing, and assembly. An L.A. Exhibition Explores the Unpredictable Nature of Ceramics 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z “The Little Prince,” the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is not just one of the most beloved children’s stories of all time, it is also a parable celebrating the wisdom of the innocent. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z Each chapter functions as a self-contained short story or novella with recurring themes and characters tying the whole together. Review | Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘Tyll’ — a future Netflix series — follows a German jester navigating war-torn chaos 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “The Martini Shot,” the bracing and witty novella that closes Pelecanos’s first collection of stories, is a sly consideration of this mud-wrestling match between art and commerce. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z So: 1983, King, wrote what really only amounts to a short story but was sold as a novella about a werewolf. Rereading Stephen King: week 17 – Cycle of the Werewolf 2013-03-07T12:02:36Z The title novella of this striking collection centers on a woman who resists her Mennonite upbringing, crystallizing the book’s themes of doubt and self-knowledge. New & Noteworthy, From RuPaul to a Nine-Dish Meal 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Look, as much as we changed about the novella, certain things had to remain. Ryan Gosling on the violence of femininity 2011-05-23T17:01:00Z I recently read the following piece of dialogue in a novella and was struck by how unrealistic it sounded. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z James Joyce's "The Dead" as novella, film, and play, the last reviewed by Charles Isherwood, Dec. 8, 2016. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z By the end of the decade she had made her reputation with a near perfect collection, Like Life, and the novella, Anagrams. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Wells’s novella is at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the south London venue best known these days for reviving musicals like “La Cage aux Folles” and “A Little Night Music” that then transfer to Broadway. Theater Review: Slamming Doore, Heavy Sledding 2011-01-11T13:00:02Z Its striking story of rebellion in an age of aristocracy is set in 16th-century France, adapted from a 19th-century novella by Heinrich von Kleist, a text ripe for reappraisal. Mads Mikkelsen Stars in ‘Age of Uprising’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z These days the guy downtown who makes pickles and collects artisanal tattoos on his forearms probably went to Brown and has a failed novella on his laptop. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z Were there some references here to The Mound – HP Lovecraft’s posthumously published novella about an underground Cthulhu-worshipping civilisation, concealed by a Native American burial site? Lovecraft Country recap: season one, episode four – misogyny, murder and Montrose 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z When the worst arrived, he set aside the comic novella to perform a “war service, using thought as a weapon.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Claridge rather cruelly dismisses Hergesheimer as just a popular society novelist, though he was more than that, as readers of his novella “Wild Oranges ” know. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Alison McCulloch, reviewing the book alongside other works in translation, calls it a “strangely chilling novella” about the demands of corporate life. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z There’s a dreamy associative quality of the novella that made it feel true and beautiful and moving. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Nancy Harris’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s once shocking novella, in which a man in a train car recalls what drove him to murder his wife, has a cast of three, though only one speaks. Critic?s Notebook: In London Theater, the Past Isn?t Dead, It?s Onstage 2012-02-03T23:49:33Z A 45-minute riff on Kafka's classic novella, the black-and-white movie will centre on an insect that wakes up to find itself transformed into a human. Chapman brothers to film adaptation of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor 2013-05-20T15:44:41Z In this novella, Tolstoy says—tells us, repeats it, assures us, hammers it into our brains—that life is death. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “Twilight” became one of the publishing industry’s most lucrative entertainment franchises, with four novels, a companion novella and five blockbuster films. Sorry, ‘Twilight’ Fans, Stephenie Meyer’s Latest Is a Twisted Spy Thriller 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Henry James’s 1898 horror novella “The Turn of the Screw” has been adapted into many forms since it was published, including in opera, ballet and theater — some of them great works in their own right. ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ Brings Back the Ghosts of Henry James 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But which director initially bought the rights to Robin Maugham’s novella and commissioned a script from Pinter? Harold Pinter, by Michael Billington ? quiz 2011-08-04T15:56:00Z Each son’s tale reads like a satisfying novella, and the three eventually dovetail in a way that surprises without feeling overdetermined. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Like an early Stephen King novella, “The Tall Man” buzzes with small-town secrets and downtrodden paranoia. Movie Review: ‘The Tall Man,’ a Thriller Directed by Pascal Laugier 2012-08-31T00:20:50Z She spent years developing an adaptation of Jane Bowles’s novella “Two Serious Ladies,” but investors balked at the lack of a role for a bankable leading man. Sara Driver Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives 2012-03-16T17:39:49Z The Gourmet, a novella by Lu Wenfu, is a particular favourite of yours? There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z The resulting story couldn’t have filled a whole book, but it’s perfect at novella length, one of this author’s freshest and most original recent works — not to mention his most self-referential. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The first was Jim Harrison’s tribute to the elevation a man feels when surrendering his heart to a woman, from the novella “Revenge.” Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z A previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut will be released on Friday by RosettaBooks, close to 60 years after it was written, the publisher said on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Previously Unpublished Vonnegut Novella to Be Released 2012-03-22T23:00:10Z At Powell’s, I happily seized upon “Three of Them,” a volume of this sometimes controversial writer’s novellas. Perspective | An afternoon inside a bookstore was as glorious as ever. Here’s what I bought. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z “Malcolm,” along with the novella “63: Dream Palace,” is perhaps the book that most closely fits this mold. The Strange, Unsettling Fiction of James Purdy 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z In fact, all of the shorter pieces contribute to and gain full velocity in that novella. Review | In ‘The World Doesn’t Require You,’ a fictional town delivers essential truths 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," adapted from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, is Guido's fourth production for the company since taking over as artistic director four years ago. NY Deaf Theatre brings duality of 'Jekyll and Hyde' to stage 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Susanna and Beale are, as they were in the novella, deliberately over the top. What Maisie Knew: The Parents From Hell 2013-05-03T03:30:56Z His first two books are basically novellas, and I’d like to see him stretch in all sorts of ways. Books of The Times: ‘Quesadillas,’ by Juan Pablo Villalobos 2014-02-27T22:39:35Z Loosely inspired by “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and written in a flawless approximation of 19th-century American prose, this tightly compressed novella manages to be both frightening and funny. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z He went on to publish several other collections and novellas, including his widely celebrated 2013 short story collection, “Tenth of December.” George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z How much does the novella play with details from your own life? John Jeremiah Sullivan on Writing Unconsciously 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The unnamed narrator of Lily Tuck’s restrained but remarkably arresting novella is a well-to-do wife and mother in rural Virginia. ‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Plenty have come a cropper trying to transpose Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella to the stage. A Clockwork Orange – review 2012-11-22T17:44:03Z Ruhlman is the author of many books, including “Ruhlman’s How to Roast” and the recent collection of novellas “In Short Measure.” No food is healthy. Not even kale. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, a husband murders his wife after hearing her play Beethoven with a stranger: the intensity of their musical connection drives him mad with jealousy. Scottish Ensemble ? review 2010-12-17T22:45:00Z Mr. Albee’s other plays include adaptations of the Carson McCullers novella “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”; of “Malcolm,” a novel by James Purdy, and of Vladimir Nabokov’s great novel of sexual obsession, “Lolita.” Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “Cranford,” a collection of stories set in the titular village, and the novella “My Lady Ludlow” both imagine a world almost entirely inhabited by women. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In his winsome novella “The Uncommon Reader,” the British writer Alan Bennett conjured an alternative reality in which Elizabeth happens upon a mobile library outside Buckingham Palace, and it changes her forever. An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z There’s plenty more liberation in the second novella, “The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes,” given an even more distinctively English spin. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z Marshal Raylan Givens, an ensemble character in two novels before getting his own novella, "Fire in the Hole." So it's the final show? How to wrap a TV series up 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In his 1983 novella “Worstward Ho,” Samuel Beckett wrote his most famous words: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Binchy, author of "Circle of Friends" and "Tara Road," wrote 16 novels, four collections of short stories, a play and a novella. Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72 2012-07-31T11:56:13Z The Brooklyn-born writer published his most famous work first as a novella, which won the Hugo Award, then in 1966 as a novel, which tied for the Nebula Award and sold millions of copies. 'Flowers for Algernon' author Daniel Keyes dies at 86 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z In “A Monkey’s Paw,” you’ll also find a family grieving over a son devoured by a factory machine, just as Simon was in the first novella of Mr. Cunningham’s “Specimen Days.” Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z A quick, unscientific keyword search across the series’ 15 books and five novellas found 421 references to lip gloss, while the word “smart” only made 39 appearances. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z King's novella was published part of the collection "Full Dark, No Stars" in 2010. Stephen King's 'Big Driver' to become Lifetime movie 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Based on the 1945 novella by Colette, “Gigi” is about a Parisian girl who is being trained as a courtesan and becomes the romantic object of an older man, the playboy Gaston. "Gigi" -- This One a Play -- to Have an Off Off Broadway Run 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Such tensions are very much at work in "Suspended Sentences," a book that gathers three novellas originally published between 1988 and 1993 and now available in English for the first time. Patrick Modiano's 'Suspended Sentences': Mysteries of existential sort 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Pushkin Industries, an audio production company, will publish the novella next month as an audiobook and e-book. Peering Into the Future of Novels, With Trained Machines Ready 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Ogawa gave birth to a son, and when he was just a toddler, her novella “Pregnancy Diary” won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature, cementing her reputation in Japan. Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z She is working on her debut novel, after writing a novella, “The Dream Chasers,” that was “highly commended” by the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2012. Okwiri Oduor Wins Caine Prize for African Writing 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z And what novellas in particular do you especially admire? Stephen King: By the Book 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z John Lee Hancock directed this adaptation of a novella by Stephen King. 159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The latest of these, “If It Bleeds,” contains four new, exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm his mastery of the form. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z An adaptation of the Colette novella ran on Broadway in 1951, starring Audrey Hepburn, in her first major role, as Gigi, whose relatives try unsuccessfully to prepare her for life as a courtesan. Vanessa Hudgens To Star in 'Gigi' at the Kennedy Center 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Found in the notes that became “The Pale King,” this novella is a complete example of David Foster Wallace’s late style. Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z "I wrote a children's book for a boyfriend, and I wrote a novella for somebody once. I would write poems for people. And letters." Mary-Louise Parker reveals shards of her past in 'Dear Mr. You' 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z There are four books and a novella in this series — perfect for a long weekend or a week away. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison’s new book, “The River Swimmer,” is a collection of two novellas. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z "People don't want to read books that are long. These books are inspired by the novella." James Patterson want you to read. And you and you and you. He gets our Innovator's Award April 9. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet they are simultaneously making the same case that many conservatives made, say, in the early 1960s when Stanley Kubrick's dystopian novella "A Clockwork Orange" was first published. Violence in art: The burden of 'truth' 2011-01-14T22:02:00Z Wells’s formative 1895 novella “The Time Machine” was one of the first books to imagine a device that would allow people to hop through time. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The First Lady’ and ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s the most recent thing in the book, and, as the title suggests, the funniest — less a novella than a shaggy anecdote. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In “Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian,” Joyce Carol Oates examines the compelling fiction of Ted Chiang, whose novella “Story of Your Life” was the basis for the film “Arrival.” Sunday Reading: The Allure of Science Fiction 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z "It's really a story about life after the recession and the financial crisis," says Kunzru, who was commissioned to write a 10,000-word novella, from which the show has been developed. Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace 2013-06-18T09:36:00Z But it was the title novella, “Legends of the Fall,” the one that Jim said he wrote in ten days, that became his big ticket. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Like the great novellas of Thomas Mann and Flannery O'Connor, this book manipulates. Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z And Mr. Johnson's novella is "magnificently written, stylistically innovative, and - in its exhilarating, magical depiction of ordinary life in the much romanticized Wild West - a profoundly American book." ArtsBeat: Michael Cunningham Writes About Non-Pulitzer in Fiction 2012-07-10T20:45:12Z The novella takes up more than a third of this brisk, hard-boiled book, which also includes seven short stories. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The next two novellas are set on the next two floors in the same building. Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z She is best known for the novella "Light In the Piazza," which has been adapted into a feature film and Broadway show. Elizabeth Spencer wins $30,000 short story prize 2014-04-21T17:59:26Z In an afterword written in response to many letters asking him to explain the meaning of the novella, Tolstoy confirmed that he shared Pozdnyshev’s opinions. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Although I admired Dostoevsky more than Tolstoy, my first story writing impulses came after reading Tolstoy novellas. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Stephen King’s affinity for the novella form goes back to the early stages of his long, prolific career. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In the novella, loggers in North Carolina struggle to finish a dangerous project on an unrealistic deadline. All-American Stories by Walter Mosley, Matthew Baker and Ron Rash 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z I showed him the typescript of a novella, called “Murder in Mount Holly.” Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z And although the restaurant does not specifically say it, the logs may be best enjoyed while reading a KFC-themed romance novella starring a rippled, sleeveless Colonel Sanders. KFC debuts fried chicken-scented firelogs ahead of Christmas 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It says two novellas quite obviously in the prologue. John Waters: “I like writing books just as much as making movies” 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The novella, which Martin expanded a few years after its original publication, follows a group of voyagers on an expedition through space who soon realize they're being imprisoned by a mysterious figure with evil intentions. Good news for (some) George R.R. Martin fans: His novella 'Nightflyers' will be a TV series 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Shriver sinks her teeth into this query in the novellas that anchor both ends of the book and the 10 stories that shore up the middle. Money Can’t Buy Love, but It Can Buy Goods — and in These Stories, Lots of Trouble 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z This stark and profound novella set against one small corner of World War II is the first work by the French author Hubert Mingarelli to be translated into English. Review: Books by Amie Barrodale, Joy Williams, Hubert Mingarelli and Rikki Ducornet 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Why did Alan Bennett give the title “Smut” to this admittedly slight but always enjoyable and often hilarious pair of novellas? Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z Appanah's beautiful and profoundly touching novella switches its perspective between the pensive older Raj and his younger self, following his mad rush through the forests with David after a second cyclone breaches the barbed wire. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah ? review 2011-03-12T00:06:39Z The new novella is told from the point of view of Bree, a character originally featured in the third Twilight book, Eclipse. Twilight scribe Meyer eclipses other authors with free book 2010-03-31T09:13:00Z It was a trajectory not unlike that of Gigi, the titular heroine of her 1944 novella, who climbs through Paris’s social strata, from a world of courtesans to that of society hostesses. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z This is an intriguing stage version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1846 novella about a mild-mannered government clerk Golyadkin, who becomes convinced that someone else has usurped his identity. This week's new theatre 2012-11-17T00:05:34Z Dickens’ 1843 novella contains no descriptions of vengeful postmortem golden showers. There’s no comfort and joy in FX’s excruciating “Christmas Carol” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In her slim new novella, “Walks With Men,” Ms. Beattie conjures New York in the 1980s, though it soon becomes clear that her narrator is looking back at that archaeological era through a rear-view mirror. Books of The Times: Ann Beattie?s ?Walks With Men?: Secrets of the ?80s 2010-07-01T21:59:00Z Her novella “This Is How You Lose the Time War,” written with Max Gladstone, will be published in 2019. Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Two students told me about a seminar in which the “O” in Heinrich von Kleist’s novella “The Marquise von O” was under discussion. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The titular story, a novella set in 1949, follows a retired lawyer as he joins six other semi-distinguished old men to write accounts of their time at a defunct patrician boys’ academy. New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Yale University Press is coming out with a volume of three of his novellas, but the vast bulk of his work remains unavailable in English. Patrick Modiano’s Postwar 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The love in the title, which is not the title of the novella, is between Chloë’s character and mine. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z She won first prize in the novella category of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z The awards, which recognize “excellence in published romance novels and novellas,” are typically given during the trade organization’s annual conference in the summer. Romance Writers of America Cancels Awards Program 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z No surprise, then, that this collection concludes with its title novella, about a Black professor who quits her job to work for the city government, correcting factual mistakes in the public record. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Similar to the original novella in its intense compression and written in the same incisive style, it has been heralded in France and recently won the best-first-novel prize from the Académie Goncourt. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Pritchard’s collection also includes an emotionally rich novella, “Captain Brown and the Royal Victoria Military Hospital.” New Books From Joe Dunthorne, David Finch and Stef Penney 2012-01-18T22:38:31Z Jumping around wildly in time, and with time’s passage as its central concern, the novella builds a rich mosaic of Walt’s life and of Fall River, a touchstone locale in Orner’s work. The Roving, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Peter Orner 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps “spares” is not the right word for what Jacob Marley’s partner in predatory lending endures in the director Stephen Donnelly’s vivid if hardly warranted adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella. ‘Scrooge: A Christmas Carol’ Review: Slightly Off Key 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z If all that sounds like rather a lot of work for a novella, well, it is — particularly since the story Hallberg is telling is, in the end, a pretty simple one. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Based on a novella by Herman Melville, the play, by the poet Robert Lowell, is keen to rail against oppression and condemn political hypocrisy. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z KB: Oh god, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” I can still remember reading that for the first time in your novella class, what, twelve years ago? “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z What Belongs to You” grew from a lauded novella called “Mitko.” ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z There’s a lot to unpack in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella, one of the most translated works of the 20th century, and director Mark Osborne’s adaptation doesn’t skimp on the weighty themes. The 12 Best Summer Movies You Might Have Missed 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The 2015 Summer Writing Project kicks off today, and authors are invited to submit first installments of novellas to be posted online. The Summer Writing Project begins today 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Her forthcoming schedule – "I'm booked until 2018" – includes large-scale works as well as making a special edition of a book to accompany the New York stage version of Colm Tóibín's novella The Testament of Mary. Rachel Whiteread: a life in art 2013-04-06T08:00:40Z And of course with these novellas, it’s a subject that’s been treated in literature before. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z Ted Chiang's brilliant and insightful novella about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence was originally published in a beautiful limited edition from Subterranean Press. Is the Robopocalypse nigh? 2011-07-12T16:24:22Z The gist of the landlady’s story found its way into Mr. Mosher’s 1978 book, “Where the Rivers Flow North,” a novella and stories. Howard Frank Mosher, Whose Novels Evoked Hardscrabble Vermont, Dies at 74 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Blake Edwards’s adaptation of the Truman Capote novella won two Oscars. What’s on TV Friday: ‘A Very English Scandal’ and ‘Kiss Me First’ 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z In Greene’s original novella, Lime and Martins were not Americans, but British subjects, old pals from private school. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z She published her first novella at eighteen, and in her early twenties became the first person to translate “Swann’s Way” into Italian. The Book That Taught Me What I Want to Teach My Daughter 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s practically a novella for this writer: 29 pages. Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z The novella divides into two parts, the first being Tony's memoir of "book-hungry, sex-hungry" sixth form days, and the painful failure of his first relationship at university, with the spiky, enigmatic Veronica. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z The novella’s minor characters, human and otherwise, are all drawn with exceptional care. Lady Macbeth in Appalachia, and Other Tales by an American Master 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z He explains further by pointing me to the title of his novella. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z The Irish Repertory Theater’s dinner theater adaptation of James Joyce’s novella, which The Times called “an unusually sparkling affair,” returns for another holiday season. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Marrow” is a mordant look at a depraved society, more exemplary of Yan’s other work — he has handily drawn comparisons to Kafka and the foundational Chinese satirist Lu Xun — than its companion novella. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z March 26 Jim Harrison, best known for his novella “Legend of the Fall,” dies at 78. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A day later, a hard-boiled suspense novella called “Glue” began to appear, 140 characters and an occasional photograph at a time, in the Twitter stream of @Bitchuation, known to be Mr. Soderbergh’s handle. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z Unlike that generally traditional if sprawling book, the novella is self-consciously experimental. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z To locate the gay gene in , you have to go back to its source, the 1948 novella written by Robin Maugham, the nephew of W Somerset Maugham. The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows 2013-03-27T16:21:00Z Flaubert and Balzac are the twin godfathers of this powerful novella. The Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky – review 2013-07-12T14:59:00Z On his blog, Martin said he was surprised that Syfy was interested in a television adaptation of the novella. Good news for (some) George R.R. Martin fans: His novella 'Nightflyers' will be a TV series 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Sigmund Freud saw this, asserting more than once that his case histories read strangely like novellas rather than bearing the "serious stamp of science". The psychoanalyst's tale – why we need to tell stories to relieve our sorrows 2013-01-07T19:00:03Z In the fifties, he began publishing stories and novellas in Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Astounding Science Fiction, and other magazines. Miller also wrote scripts for the popular television show “Captain Video and His Video Rangers.” A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Entitled Burning Secret, the script is an adaptation of the 1913 novella by the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig. Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay, Burning Secret, is found 60 years on 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z You don’t see many writers who publish only short stories, and novellas are even rarer. Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z After the first novella, titled “Folly,” the book takes a hard left into “Madness.” Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Three years later she wrote another novella, “Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life,” that was made into a 1984 movie, for which she wrote the screenplay. Dubravka Ugresic, Who Wrote of Dislocation and Exile, Dies at 73 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The novella follows the adventures of Bree Tanner, a newborn vampire introduced in the "Twilight" volume "Eclipse." 'Bree Tanner' million-seller in less than a month 2010-06-28T17:45:00Z The novels, novellas, excerpts, and short stories included in the Cheeky Frawg collection are not narratives in the traditional sense so much as a series of contextualized impressions. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Though he claims to have written a novella, he does not know what “harrowing” means. Review: Making a Beautiful ‘Case for the Existence of God’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Winners include James Salter, best known for his novella "A Sport and a Pastime," and playwright Naomi Wallace. 9 authors and playwrights receive $150K Yale prize 2013-03-04T16:34:12Z Ms. Plath’s prom dress is a novella about promise and defeat rendered in nylon net and silver lamé. Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Jim Harrison is the author of over 35 books, including “Legends of the Fall,” “The Road Home,” “Dalva” and, published next month, “Brown Dog,” a collection of novellas. Imprint: My Upper Peninsula 2013-12-04T20:26:39Z Mr. Toibin turned the piece into a novella, which was published to strong critical praise last fall. ArtsBeat: Fiona Shaw to Star in 'The Testament of Mary' on Broadway 2013-01-08T18:21:42Z Three years later, James turned this into The Turn of the Screw - you can download the text of his novella here or here, while there's an interesting introductory essay to it here. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z The opening section — a perfectly constructed novella that would have made Henry James envious — is a cringe-inducing confession of desire and foolishness. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Fittingly, Tuck’s novella eventually reveals itself to be more a tale of self-delusion and internal conflict than the grand romance we were initially led to believe. ‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Martin’s novellas that are connected to “A Song of Ice and Fire” and featuring the adventures of Dunk and Egg. Opiate for the Masses: “Game of Thrones” is the latest series to feed our spinoff habit 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Whatever we have made of him, Bennett's recent work, such as The History Boys, The Habit of Art and the novella Smut, suggests a distinctly uncosy talent. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z Three linked novellas about life in an Israeli apartment building capture the lies we tell ourselves and others in order to construct identity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The sweeping transmission of pathos to pavement where high-minded thought meets the immediacy of everyday experience is accessible in the novels, novellas and poetry of one of America’s greatest living writers. Want to reject America’s Puritanism, workaholism and toxic obsession with stuff? Read Jim Harrison’s brilliant books 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Both novellas burn brightly with what he calls, at one point, “unmitigated cupidity,” not for money or possessions but for life and experience. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z Darby is known for beautifully textured stories, and these novellas are no exception. Sarah MacLean picks the best new romance novels for June Case in point: the Culture Project’s unsteady production of “About Love,” which awkwardly wrestles “First Love,” a novella by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, to the stage of the Sheen Center. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The second novella, "Translator Translated", is narrated by another solitary – an embittered English teacher. The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai ? review 2011-08-25T23:05:01Z “Moonlight” won for best screenplay, and “Arrival” for best adapted screenplay; it was based on the Ted Chiang novella, “Story of Your Life.” ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Arrival’ Win Top Honors at Writers Guild Awards 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Ten stories flanked by two novellas posit that possessions may in turn possess their owners, while exploring definitions of generosity, the emotional cost of money and the subjectivity of worth. Lionel Shriver on things that possess their owners 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes I want to zip through a novella in one hour and sometimes I want to be crushed beneath the weight of an 800-page tome like a defenseless worm. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The reference was to the company’s adaptation of “Billy Budd,” the Herman Melville novella. Adrian Hall, Who Invigorated Regional Theater, Dies at 95 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Richard Ayoade, the versatile actor and filmmaker best known for his co-starring work on “The IT Crowd,” takes on corporate dronery in a very different key in this wickedly funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Hoover, the author of more than a dozen novels and novellas – including “It Ends With Us” and “Verity” – often shouts out her husband online. How 12 authors turned their book dedications into grand romantic gestures 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In two novellas about Japan’s growing population of alienated and emotionally remote youth, the celebrated playwright Okada captures the ennui that has paralyzed a generation. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z This pseudo-expressionist folly, based on the early Dostoyevsky novella, features a general atmosphere of looming paranoia and characters walking down endless corridors, accompanied by vague howls. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z No movies resulted, but a novella called Power and Light did. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z "Brokeback Mountain" is a great movie based on a beautiful novella. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z As his Lovecraftian novella “The Ballad of Black Tom” showed just a year ago, he’s not timid either about conjuring horrors or about describing the emotions they evoke in their unfortunate victims. This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The longest, “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” — at nearly 100 pages, it’s practically a novella — ran in The Paris Review. ‘Medusa’s Ankles,’ a Selection of A.S. Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories Across Three Decades 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z In six novellas that pay explicit tribute to forebears from Raymond Chandler to Elmore Leonard, Winslow shows his range and verve as a writer of propulsive crime stories. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z This mesmerizing story is told by the father himself, the first of three linked novellas in Eshkol Nevo’s “Three Floors Up.” Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Said Yost by email, “From the moment I read Elmore Leonard’s novella, I knew I wanted Nick to play Art Mullen.” Versatile Nick Searcy shines in FX’s ‘Justified’ 2013-03-25T20:40:19Z Hoffmann’s novella about an enchanted Christmas, when a girl delights to the metamorphosis under the tree of a wooden figure into a handsome prince. Theater fall preview: There’s magic to do The Alienist is a humorous novella that parodies scientific preoccupations of the day and the aspirations of a small town near Rio de Janeiro. The Alienist by Machado de Assis – review 2012-12-23T00:10:26Z “Glassworks” is a panoramic family saga told in four novellas, each peering over the shoulder of the preceding generation. A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The American author has built on his growing cult following with the crowd-funded and self-published Atlanta Burns novellas, and the outstanding urban fantasy novel Blackbirds from UK publisher Angry Robot. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z By what affectionate moniker was the university thinly disguised as in his 1997 novella, Breaking Hearts? Theatre quiz – test your knowledge of playwright Simon Gray 2013-01-30T16:31:14Z “Different Seasons,” for example, is a collection of four novellas, and three of them have nothing to do with the supernatural. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z In the course of two decades, he had written six novellas about the Brown Dog character that critics liked to paint as Jim’s alter ego, and likened to a “21st-century version of Huck Finn.” Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Luck and the alignment of political stars also play pivotal roles in the second novella, in which Robert Kennedy beats out Humphrey for the 1968 Democratic nomination. Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z In a story the length of a novella, such overbearing repetition turns into caricature and slapstick, making any dramatic turn or fitful heartbreak seem unwarranted. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek Even for a literary shape shifter like Mr. Faber, who’s written historical fiction, thrillers, satires and three novellas, “The Book of Strange New Things” stands apart. Michel Faber Plans to Stop Writing Novels 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z This jaunty novella, a best seller in France and Germany, is a toast to the moment in time. Newly Released Books 2011-05-18T22:35:53Z I did, apart from one major omission in the adaptation: that the novella is actually about serial killer. Rereading Stephen King: Different Seasons 2013-01-15T11:10:21Z Cervantes's novella The Conversation of the Dogs is a foundation stone in the making of the modern novel. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z This collection of four novellas portrays a quiet, almost provincial world of the upper middle-class before New York became a world capital. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z “Ida” is as compact and precise as a novella, a sequence of short, emphatic scenes that reveal the essence of the characters without simplifying them. Movie Review: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland 2014-05-02T12:20:44Z Did they inspire the ones in his novella? Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The two novellas make frequent references to each other, but how you interpret those references will depend on whether they’re looking forward or backward. Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith This novella is told in the first person by an elderly professor who looks back on the unhappy man who was the greatest influence in his life. Paul Bailey's top 10 stories of old age 2011-02-02T11:31:42Z She also has a longstanding connection to Machover: Her first leading role came in his 1999 opera “Resurrection,” based on a novella by Tolstoy. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Winslow has now delivered a collection of six novellas that show off his range. A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z He also wrote books, including the history “They Were Ragtime,” about notable figures from the ragtime era, and a novella, “The Falling Man.” Warren Forma, Documentary Filmmaker, Is Dead at 90 2014-04-17T04:46:17Z The cocktail list is the length of a novella, but name a favorite drink or spirit, and the servers can consult with the bartenders to come up with something satisfying. Review | A chef who reveres the region brings his act to D.C. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z It's based on the Stephen King novella "The Colorado Kid" and is set in Maine. TV Picks: Syfy's new 'Haven' 2010-07-29T19:13:00Z The show is based on the novellas of Luke Jennings, the Observer’s recenty departed dance critic, and he is delighted with Oh’s performance. Killing it: Sandra Oh’s rise from ‘quota’ Asian to Hollywood star 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z One of the reigning masters of horror fiction assembles a massive retrospective — 28 chilling, unsettling stories and novellas. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Even as Rebecca struggles to peer through her deepening guilt, she’s haunted by her work translating an Israeli novella about a couple who lose both their children. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z And the TV movie "Big Driver," based on King's novella, will air on Lifetime in October. Stephen King's '11/22/63' becoming Hulu original series 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Her new book, a collection of Outlander novellas titled “Seven Stones to Stand or Fall,” is to be released in June. ‘In the Name of the Family,’ by Sarah Dunant, makes the Borgias live again 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z His novella “The Uncommon Reader” — a comic tour de force — imagines the consequences of Queen Elizabeth suddenly becoming a bookworm. The voice of Winnie the Pooh is something of a teddy bear himself (with claws) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s a novella about a family in South India and their descent into physical violence. The Nobel-Winning Economist Who Wants You to Read More Fiction 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z But as with the title novella, the ironies here are deepened by our foreknowledge of the world that actually awaits the poet: laissez-faire where he wants to be engagé, iron-fisted where he would be free. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The Voltaire novella that inspired it, first published in 1759, defies categorization too. Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole take the L.A. Opera stage for 'Candide' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Roth’s novella is a somewhat incongruous mingling of conventional boy-meets-girl material and portrait-of-the-intellectual-as-a-young-man, narrated with an occasional fondness for clinical detail reminiscent of Edmund Wilson’s “The Princess With the Golden Hair.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z December, with its short days packed with end-of-the-year excitement, might be the month best suited to the romance novella — the perfect length for the rare hour or two of free time. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Three audio-first horror novellas bring the World of Darkness back from the cult vampire video games to mainstream fiction. New Audiobooks, From Thomas Cromwell to the World of Darkness 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z He followed it with a collection of short stories and several novellas. Weinsteins to make JD Salinger film 2013-09-19T10:09:13Z This magical element helps tether the novella to the netherworld of teenage imagination. ‘The River Swimmer’: youth and age, in the currents 2013-01-30T19:27:37Z “Gwendy’s Button Box,” written in conjunction with Cemetery Dance founder Richard Chizmar, is a modest but resonant novella set in one of King’s signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Stephen King and Richard Chizmar put the fate of the world in a girl’s hands 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Fresh from winning the modern choreography class at this year's National Dance Awards is this revival of Arthur Pita's extraordinary setting of Kafka's novella. The week's new dance 2013-03-16T06:00:15Z Within a year of the 1843 publication of the 66-page novella, there were several productions of the story on the London stage. A New ‘Christmas Carol’ Explores the Roots of Scrooge’s Scorn 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z This sweeping collection of stories and novellas from the acclaimed author of “The Grace of Kings” includes his Hugo award-winner “Mono No Aware” and Nebula finalists “The Waves” and “All the Flavors.” Best science fiction and fantasy this month 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The Whitbread prize-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is the first writer commissioned to produce a novella under the publishing deal. Jeanette Winterson turns to horror in hammer revival 2010-10-05T19:54:00Z As soon as the actor Paul Dano read Richard Ford’s novella Wildlife, he knew he wanted to make a film of it. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z In the late 1970s, during a terrifying winter in Fargo, North Dakota, I wrote my novella Old Soldiers, which is concerned with two survivors of the Battle of the Somme. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z In this novella, when Gao becomes the manager of a very famous old Suzhou restaurant, he insists that it serve cheap food for the masses. There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z Agreed: this is a satirical novella, after Swift, and not a novel and runs to barely 100 pages. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z A previous graphic novel of Mr. Tomine’s, “Shortcomings,” a novella about Asian-American characters and how they handle being in a minority, was one of The New York Times Book Review’s 100 notable books of 2007. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best-Sellers: I Think I Do 2011-02-11T17:14:10Z The German émigré director Max Ophüls’s romantic drama “Letter from an Unknown Woman,” an 1948 adaptation of a novella by Zweig, is equally anchored in both. Movie of the Week: “Letter from an Unknown Woman” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z This novella slides back and forth in time. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z I wrote a short story once that was semi-autobiographical, which I’ll never publish, a novella actually—the child in the story was raised in New York with famous parents. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Maclean’s father, Norman, wrote the classic novella “A River Runs Through It.” New & Noteworthy, From Slave Traders to the Savoy Hotel 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z In the novella “The Business Venture,” a circle of Mississippi friends is unable even to mention the savage beatings of Freedom Riders or the whites enraged over efforts to integrate the University of Mississippi. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The new stage adaptation of the novella, which received strong reviews when it opened in London two years ago, will run for eight weeks at the Lyceum Theater, from Nov. 7 to Jan. 5. Campbell Scott to Star in Broadway ‘Christmas Carol’ 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The 65-year-old triumphed with "The Sense of an Ending," which at 150 pages was described by one review as a "novella." Barnes wins Booker Prize he once named "posh bingo" 2011-10-18T20:53:13Z That mystery is central to the plot, but the fun is in all the details packed into Jones’s novella. These dystopian science fiction stories show us all the ways the world can end 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Now Henry James’s taut 1898 novella is getting a fresh musical ride as a handful of Signature Theatre vets premiere their work at Creative Cauldron, a comfortable black box on a Falls Church side street. Adapting to the times: Mexican lovers, Irish terrorists and James’s ghosts 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z In this novella, the superhero girlfriend gets to tell her own version of events in the afterlife. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z My favorite in that universe may be Kim Newman’s novella “Coppola’s Dracula,” which imagines the director shooting a vampire movie in Transylvania instead of “Apocalypse Now” — with real vampires, of course. Review | Ever wonder what might have been? Here are some scenarios, courtesy of science fiction 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The book was challenged last month by community members, including Mary Jo Finney, who said the novella "is neither a quality story nor a page turner." John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' survives censorship attempt in Idaho 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z While this is Weil’s first full-length novel, his highly regarded first book of fiction, “The New Valley,” published in 2009, was made up of three novellas. Modern Russian fable superbly drawn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z She is the sort of tightly wound person motherhood has only somewhat unraveled; when she offers Ashling the job, it comes with a stack of guidelines as thick as a novella. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z A collection of three novellas includes the story of a death row inmate awaiting his imminent execution. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z When Chastain appeared on Broadway in “The Heiress,” an adaptation of the Henry James novella “Washington Square,” the expectations felt crushing. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In the novella, Ivan continues to stumble into trouble after he has taken vows and ends up no nearer to finding enlightenment than before. ‘The Enchanted Wanderer,’ by the Mariinsky Theater, at BAM 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A novella and short story were also spun off. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z “Monsters” includes its own alternative version, a novella featuring the same widespread massacres and bereaved young Arcadians, but with the latter playing different roles. Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Based on a novella by noted South African writer Can Themba, “The Suit” opens Wednesday, March 19, at Seattle Repertory Theatre, where it runs through Monday, April 6. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z “Open City” is actually Mr. Cole’s second work of fiction; he is also the author of a 128-page novella, “Every Day Is for the Thief.” ArtsBeat: Hemingway/PEN Award Goes to Teju Cole 2012-03-08T20:48:31Z He has named both the novella and the book “The Martini Shot.” George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Han spent three years working on “The Vegetarian,” which she wrote as three separate novellas. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But this is precisely where the novella succeeds. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Last November marked the release of his novella Heather, the Totality, which got lukewarm-to-positive reviews. Can Matthew Weiner turn The Romanoffs into a Mad Men-sized hit? 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z “Asymmetry” delivers two seemingly disconnected novellas, followed by a brief third coda. Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z At 100 pages the title story is described as a novella. Where Have You Been? by Joseph O'Connor – review 2012-10-05T21:55:03Z The latest book, “Death in Kew Gardens,” arrives June 4, so with three novels and a novella, this series should get you through a few days of bingeing. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z These novellas are haunted by old buildings, old songs, forgotten neighborhoods, vanished lovers, lost friends. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z During my senior year at Bard College, with which Simon’s Rock is affiliated, I wrote a novella. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z The lawyers granted Segal license to work with all the adaptations of “Gigi” they controlled since it first appeared as a novella by the French writer Colette in 1944. Call the show doctor: ‘Midwife’ writer Heidi Thomas operates on revised ‘Gigi’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Then he embarked on a peripatetic life that included extended periods in Berlin, New York, Milan and Portugal, where he wrote novellas, short stories, essays and articles. Simon Lane obituary 2013-01-28T12:23:36Z On top of that, Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis,” in which the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, finds himself transformed into a bug, was first published in book form this month a century ago. On the Trail of Kafka in Prague 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z In some ways, the spookiest element in author Henry James’ 1898 horror novella “The Turn of the Screw” is an unexplained letter of expulsion from a boarding school. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z In his script, Will Pomerantz, who also directs, sticks to the plot but struggles to capture the most intriguing aspects of the novella. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “While it departs considerably from my novella in certain details, the essence of the story remains the same,” Martin wrote. Good news for (some) George R.R. Martin fans: His novella 'Nightflyers' will be a TV series 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z They are among the least eerie parts of the novella, since the natural world’s survival skills are relatively drama-free. Lady Macbeth in Appalachia, and Other Tales by an American Master 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z The two quasi-historical novellas sandwiched between these contemporary tales are more intellectually than emotionally engaging. Mary Gordon’s latest offers thoughtful characters in the throes of change Mann started almost immediately on a second novella that would reproduce “Death in Venice”’s theme — the strange allure of “decadence,” illness and death — in a comic mode. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Lee Child is the author of the Jack Reacher series of novels, stories and novellas, and an executive producer of the streaming series “Reacher.” Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Besides the recitation of a few passages from “The Walk,” a 1917 novella, and a short story from the previous year, entitled “Nervous,” the references to Walser are indirect, atmospheric, and subjective. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s symptomatic of Bassani’s historical pessimism that his two finest novellas end with their respective protagonists’ suicide. The World War II Tragedy of Italy’s Jews, Preserved in Fiction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z After completing “Reflections,” Mann returned to his “Death in Venice” companion novella, which grew into his gargantuan masterpiece, “The Magic Mountain.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Like Victor LaValle’s brilliant 2016 novella “The Ballad of Black Tom,” “The City We Became” subverts the work of the repellent H.P. Review | N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy tale ‘The City We Became’ shows the resilience of New York 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Benjamin Britten’s 1951 opera “Billy Budd,” based on Herman Melville’s novella of the same name, follows a group of soldiers aboard a British ship as they battle the French Navy. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Irish Repertory Theater’s dinner theater adaptation of James Joyce’s novella, which The New York Times called “an unusually sparkling affair,” returns for another holiday season. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z With four decades of down-and-out and so-it-goes jangle behind him, the Book of Bruce — part near-biblical tract, part noir novella — is as good as national scripture, and its author sacred as our bard in jeans. Review | ‘Letter to You’ is a concept album by, and about the endurance of, Bruce Springsteen 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “The Years, Months, Days,” the first of the two novellas collected in this volume, begins with an arresting line: “In the year of the great drought, time was baked to ash.” In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Her title is a wry double entendre, referring at once to the elderly characters she depicts and to the collection of Egyptian archaeological artifacts almost obsessively guarded by the novella’s narrator, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The novella’s strange, shifting structure lends “Bonsai” a playful quality. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z I did write a poor novella about sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll at Hamilton that was gently rejected by a sympathetic editor at Scribner’s. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z One of these masterpieces was young Campbell’s 1938 novella, “Who Goes There?,” which Nevala-Lees calls “the greatest science fiction suspense story of all time.” Review | Let us praise the giants of science fiction: Campbell, Asimov and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The effect is cumulative, and this novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight. ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “The River Swimmer” also contains streaks of lesser stuff, mostly in the title novella: some canned dialogue, a cartoonish villain, pat expressions of things he’s said better elsewhere. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z There is an excellent novella, or perhaps a longish short story, to be written about Susan’s restoration of her uncle’s strange house and what lies beneath it. Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” offers anything but 2012-12-25T14:00:00Z The novella “The Visible Filth,” in which a lost cellphone leads a New Orleans bartender to a horrific denouement, has recently been made into a film titled “Wounds.” Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The novella "Goodbye, Columbus" catapulted Roth onto the American literary scene in 1959 with its satirical depiction of class and religion in American life. Author Philip Roth says he is done with writing 2012-11-09T23:15:30Z Woodshed will use all five floors of the parish house as well as the church chapel to recreate and expand on the events in the novella. No Space Too Dilapidated for a Show 2011-08-06T20:00:48Z The new staging of Britten's maritime opera, with a libretto by EM Forster and Eric Crozier based upon Hermann Melville's posthumously published novella, will be conducted by Mark Elder. Music picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:33:00Z Ms. Chipaumire ventured into “Heart of Darkness,” Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella about barbarism, moral hypocrisy and the corrupting force of colonialism. Nora Chipaumire’s Dance About Miriam Makeba Comes to BAM 2012-09-11T21:54:24Z But the story — inspired by the Koda Rohan novella “The Five-Storied Pagoda,” about a carpenter who builds a pagoda with wood from a tree he loved as a child — is soporific. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z I was left asking whether any SF novel written in the past 50 years hadn't been influenced by the novella. Joseph Conrad's science fiction novel 2011-01-14T10:19:56Z She has inspired big-league buzz by writing stories in the Paris Review, winning prizes and fellowships, and publishing a novella called “McGlue” about a drunken sailor who’s in prison for murdering his best friend. ‘Eileen’ review: A lonely young woman finds a friend — then trouble 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z But in the fall, she’ll participate in her second workshop of Susan Stroman’s “The Beast in the Jungle,” a story told through music, dance and narration that is loosely based on the Henry James novella. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z It is as if the short novel, not much more than a novella, symbolises the ephemeral. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Shankar also makes the odd choice to splice in a subplot that adapts the novella "Strange Dogs" which never logically integrates with the main plot. On its final run, "The Expanse" serves a last supper for we who continue to for our humanity 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z He married Leslie, a poet he met at Iowa, started freelancing, wrote a novella, got a job teaching at La Salle in Philadelphia and then another one at Rice in Texas. The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z I think it was “Kant for Kids”— the mind reels — even more than the mention of Kafka or literary absurdism that made me look further into this odd novella, originally published in 1920. Book review: Metaphysical novella ‘The Creator’ by Mynona blurs the boundary between dream and reality 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z As in the novella, the titular character travels from planet to planet, with a stop on Earth, learning lessons about loneliness, loss and selflessness. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Her new 192-page novella, her first title in two years, was released in June. James Patterson tops list of highest earning authors 2010-08-20T18:09:00Z One needn’t exalt every fragment as a puzzle piece, or every story as a novella, to be staggered by his feats of resurrection. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z His novella, which presents the mother of Jesus grieving, was shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. Shaw brings Toibin play to Barbican 2013-10-29T10:43:46Z Information, n., now runs 9,400 words, the length of a novella. ArtsBeat: Too Much Information About 'Information'? 2011-03-23T21:25:57Z But Dmitri Nabokov always returned to protecting his father's literary legacy, translating and editing his father's plays, poems, stories, the novella "The Enchanter" and "Selected Letters." Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z The novella begins as prose and then breaks into script dialogue when the occasion demands. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The title novella inspired a popular film adaptation. 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The movie is an adaptation of "Story of Your Life," the Nebula Award-winning novella by author Ted Chiang. A literary guide to the Golden Globes 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z What then, are the essential novellas that any travelling bibliophile shouldn't be without? Take out holiday reading insurance: stick to novellas 2010-07-21T12:38:00Z This near-perfect novella, set in late-19th-century Venice, shimmers with that city’s beauty even as it gives us a man confronted with a terrible choice and then with an almost unbearable loss. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books In the essay, King recounts his decision to pull his 1977 novella “Rage” from publication after the book’s fictional account of a classroom gunman was linked with four real-life school shootings and hostage situations. “Time to ban assault weapons”: Stephen King weighs in on the gun control debate 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z A novella by Leven titled “The Finale’s Master Stroke,” which traces the relationship between an older former dancer and three female photographers, is being published alongside Bick’s photographs in “Coda.” A Photographer, Her Muse, and the Hunger for Fame 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z In the back of his Penguin edition was an Austen novella he hadn’t come across before: “Lady Susan,” which Stillman, now a full-blown Austenophile, at sixty-four, has just adapted into his latest film, “Love & Friendship.” Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z This week they include a new collection of novellas by Stephen King, and Julia Alvarez’s first adult novel in 14 years. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Winner of a World Fantasy Award, this mosaic-like novella relates a half dozen stories about unusual libraries. The narrative seductiveness of Zoran Zivkovic 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Barker's story, based on his novella "The Hellbound Heart," countered that trend by presenting entirely sane villains motivated by unquenchable desire as opposed to unhinged mania, lured to their doom by a mysterious puzzle box. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “Archangel” consists of five novellas, ranging in time from 1873 to 1939, that might all be described as historical science fiction — that is, historical fiction about science. Andrea Barrett’s “Archangel”: historical fiction about science 2013-08-14T22:56:49Z His moving essay on Mann’s “Death in Venice,” framed by what he terms “gay Wagnerism,” reaches an emotional high point worthy of the inner turbulence of that epochal novella. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z In 2008, he published it as a prizewinning novella in The Missouri Review. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z But Dubus' native New England did not find a setting in his fiction until he published a collection of novellas, “Dirty Love,” which depicts small-city and shore-town residents in messy quests for human relationships. Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z As a novella, "The Dead" is second to none in the world. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z When his marriage ended, he returned to Providence, where he expanded into novellas like “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “At the Mountains of Madness.” Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z But, oddly, there’s a really good novella within the War and Peace that is the new show. Review: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Is a Disappointing Return to Stars Hollow 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z As de Bernières's deceptively simple novella showed, Red Dog became a powerful founding story for the tough towns that grew up around the hardscrabble mines of the 1970s. Red Dog: an audience with Australia's best friend 2012-02-09T20:00:01Z I'd like to write two full-length books a year and perhaps one or two novellas for The Estate Series. Mel Sherratt on self-publishing: 'I just never gave up' 2013-07-16T13:20:35Z Robertson was in plenty of suspense last summer when he submitted his novella “The Memory Thieves” for the Summer Writing Project, launched last year by Orange-based Black Hill Press and the serial-fiction website JukePop. The Summer Writing Project begins today 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “Rabbis and Wives” is a collection of three novellas. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z A novella for 6-to-10-year-olds, it centers on the developing relationship between a spoiled young prince and the street urchin engaged to undergo punishments in his stead. Sid Fleischman, Children?s Author, Dies at 90 2010-03-24T23:24:00Z The novella is told from the viewpoint of Bree, a newborn vampire featured in "Eclipse." 'Twilight' author Meyer has novella coming soon 2010-03-30T15:31:00Z The 1986 novella, which served as source material for the film Hellraiser, is about trying to bring a man back to life after a gruesome death. 6 Books You Must Read If You Love 'Stranger Things' 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Independent horror publisher Cemetery Dance said on Tuesday that it was publishing an baseball-themed novella called "Blockade Billy" by King to coincide with the start of the U.S. baseball season. Stephen King puts the frights into baseball 2010-03-31T11:28:00Z Currie, 28, has previously published the novella Dearly Departed but The Ottoman Motel is his first novel. Novelist proposes to girlfriend in print 2011-04-08T11:55:24Z Based on a novella by Joseph Conrad, Scott's first film was The Duellists, a costume drama about the obsessive rivalry between two cavalry officers in the Napoleonic wars. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z It more than succeeds, with all the intensity, humor and deep feeling of the novellas flourishing in a more complex and ambitious structure. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Those are the first, attention- demanding words in a new novel by Julia Glass, who won the National Book Award in 2002 for "Three Junes," which was essentially three novellas about one family. 'The Widower's Tale': novelist Julia Glass' sprawling saga of a very extended family 2010-09-16T22:20:00Z It's a new adaptation of a Tolstoy novella. What I'm thinking about … taking over in The Kreutzer Sonata at two days' notice 2013-03-01T00:07:00Z In an interview at around the time of his 75th birthday, Le Carré admitted that he feared producing in older age the sort of low-energy novellas that completed the shelf of his hero Graham Greene. A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré – review 2013-04-19T06:30:01Z In the opening novella, B.D. discovers a perfectly preserved Indian dressed in traditional regalia while salvage diving in the deep waters of Lake Superior. Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z Over the next months, Némirovsky continued to work on two novellas, “Storm in June” and “Dolce.” A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z He even borrowed seven lines of her story "Usurpation" for his novella "Westward the Course of Empire." ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z So, in true obtuse style, the novella I perhaps liked least has become the most famous, through its film adaptation. Rereading Stephen King: Different Seasons 2013-01-15T11:10:21Z Published in 1942, this novella transplanted a Brothers Grimm story into the forests of the Natchez Trace. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z When writer-director Frank Darabont read the original Stephen King novella, “it felt like a perfect metaphor for every hardship I ever endured,” he recalls, standing outside the theater. The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The second is a novel, also called “Love & Friendship,” in which Stillman rewrites the novella – which is told in letters and was never finished – as a more traditional narrative. Whit Stillman returns: “Sometimes it’s good to blow through all your deadlines” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In the end, though, it might have worked better as a novella or a long story. Rick Moody's uneven 'Hotels of North America' is not worth a stay 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z And for Lee Child fans, his previously published Jack Reacher stories and a new novella have been collected in “No Middle Name.” Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z These four novellas address the seductions and corruptions of technology, the extremes of beauty and depravity in even the most ordinary life, and the workings of a universe we can never entirely understand. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Norman Maclean famously ended his elegiac fly-fishing novella “A River Runs Through It” with the line, “I am haunted by waters.” Chasing Redfish Off the South Texas Gulf Coast 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z “The Empty Chair” consists of two dovetailing novellas, both told in the guise of confessional monologues, both served up to a fictional version of the author, called Bruce. Books of The Times: Bruce Wagner’s ‘Empty Chair’ Novellas Explore Guru Territory 2013-12-16T23:03:03Z Sofiya’s son Lev told her not to publish her “badly written novella,” because it would damage her reputation as a “faithful wife and mother.” Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z For one thing, the entire text of the novella is online and you can read it free, as long as you haven’t used up your complimentary views at NewYorker.com, where it was published in July. Review | A new novel explores the nuance of #MeToo accusations. Are we ready for that? 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Through five novella collections that followed, the delightful and maddening character of Brown Dog, a Chippewa Indian pulp-cutter from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has become one of Harrison’s best-loved creations. Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z In 2017, the romance novella “Tender Wings of Desire” was released. Sexy Colonel Sanders? How the face of KFC became a (kind of weird) sex symbol 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z I’d read what I thought were most of her major works and really enjoyed them, and I hadn’t heard of the novella until I was sent the script. Kate Beckinsale on Her 'Early Feminist Fighter' in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The novella’s young narrator is Maloney, a foster child living in an abusive home in North Carolina. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Each novella nods to a distinctly contemporary cultural shorthand — status updates, listicles — while exploding the potential for narrative within formal limits. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Directed by Anne Fontaine, from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novella “The Grandmothers” by Doris Lessing. ‘Adore’: Love and friendship on the Australian seaside 2013-09-05T21:30:56Z In the latest dispatch from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness – we hear from the Pakistanti novelist Kamila Shamsie. Guardian Books podcast: Kamila Shamsie in A Room for London 2012-11-12T14:07:00Z His biographies of Marie Antoinette, Erasmus and Mary Stuart, all published in the early 1930s, were acute studies of doomed protagonists; his novellas sharp parables for his own dark times. Song of exile 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”: ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Dowd said he had read the novella at school, and, being from a country that has sent economic migrants into the world for generations, could empathize with the dispossessed characters. James Franco and Chris O’Dowd on Their Rapport in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-03-19T12:00:02Z Each doll stars in historical novellas, which are sold separately. Dolls and Drinks for Likes and Clicks 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z He wrote novellas and short stories about penniless artists and poets, mostly before or during the first world war. How to visit Amsterdam while stuck at home in lockdown 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Readers had trouble with the book’s format, Mr. Vann said recently — it’s a novella surrounded by five linked short stories — and some people also found the title too gloomy. The Family History Is Grim, but He?s Plotted a New Course 2011-01-14T22:35:51Z I’ve had short stories grow into novels, but I’ve never had a novel shrink into a short story, or even a novella. This Week in Fiction: Stephen King 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Now I go for novels that are only slightly longer than novellas. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Posthumously published as a novella in 1963, 12 years after the writer's death, the script was never filmed despite interest from the actor Richard Burton. Thomas script to get Radio 3 premiere 2014-01-29T13:50:25Z Gustav Flaubert wrote in a letter to Turgenev, responding to the love object in the novella. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z So when I learned, earlier this year, that Frank would return in “Let Me Be Frank with You,” a new book made up of four novellas, I set aside time to reread the existing trilogy. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The title novella manages to combine George Orwell’s bureaucratic chill from “1984” with Toni Morrison’s elegant judgments from “Beloved.” 10 books to read in November 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Yet here, just where the limits of the novella yield to the breadth of the trilogy, exhilaration or anxiety starts to giddy the storytelling. A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z Scott cleverly dismantles the conventions of the novella itself by incorporating into the narrative email exchanges, syllabuses, term papers, dream sequences, manifestoes, PowerPoint presentations and eerie photographs of black male plastic dolls. First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The online bookseller was launching a new concept, Andrew told me: Kindle Singles – short novels, or novellas, for publication as ebooks. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z I began trying to obtain all his other work, and I discovered that he had written a novella that, unlike “The Princess Bride,” really was written for young children. William Goldman’s Strange, Sad, Captivating Children’s Book About a Girl and Her Blanket 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Following an auction, my four original Villanelle novellas had been published as a single full-length novel, Codename Villanelle, and I was working on the sequel. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Thompson was away and she had spent a miserable weekend on her own feeling insulted by a mean review of her novella Small Holdings. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z Based on the 1612 Lancashire witch trials, the novella fictionalizes the lives of the 12 witches and two men who were charged with murder and burned. Reader reviews roundup 2012-11-30T19:00:21Z This year's contender, The Sense of an Ending, is sufficiently short to be described in one review as a "novella," and tells the story of Tony in a meditation on memory and regret. Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat 2011-10-17T14:41:11Z “His Favorites” isn’t so much a novel — or even, at a slender 150 pages, a novella — as an experiment in taking control of a narrative. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z As for the final novella in this volume, it’s a decidedly clumsier performance. Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z It is an adaptation of the 1913 novella by the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig. Stanley Kubrick never paid for my early work as a composer, childhood friend reveals 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Open Cityby Teju Cole That honour belongs to Every Day is for the Thief, a novella about a young Nigerian man's return home to Lagos from New York. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z And although the source materials for “Killing Eve” are nominally Luke Jennings’s slick novellas, the show was built on a jumble of pop culture inputs. The Wild Inspirations for ‘Killing Eve’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z This is a dark read — touching on domestic abuse, homophobia and trauma — but each novella repeats and reimagines a stern mantra coined by Agnes: “Surviving hardship enriches life, and strengthens us to meet it.” A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The first is a movie, “Love & Friendship,” based on Austen’s obscure early novella, “Lady Susan.” Whit Stillman returns: “Sometimes it’s good to blow through all your deadlines” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Such a man emerges in “Anton Chekhov’s The Duel,” a very satisfying and tonally precise English-language adaptation of an 1891 Chekhov novella. | 'Anton Chekhov?s The Duel': Fiona Glascott in Dover Kosashvili?s Adaptation 2010-04-27T21:31:00Z Haruki Murakami’s illustrated novella, “The Strange Library,” arrived in the mail this month looking like a Christmas card from a bipolar ex. Illustrating Murakami 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The book is anchored by a disturbing novella set on a South Carolina plantation in the 1950s, its land made toxic through the exploitation of enslaved people’s labor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Texas-born actor Scott Haze plays a lonely Tennessee backwoodsman whose traumatic life twists him into a necrophiliac and murderer in "Child of God", based on Cormac McCarthy's novella of the same name. Judi Dench as Irish woman searching for son grips Venice 2013-08-31T16:28:01Z It’s a coming-of-age tale rooted in African culture, which is continued in two other novellas. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Though Harrison seems easier on his geezers than his teens, both novellas sparkle with lively and fluid storytelling. ‘The River Swimmer’: youth and age, in the currents 2013-01-30T19:27:37Z “Breasts and Eggs” was originally published in Japan as a novella in 2008, before Kawakami expanded it for this current edition. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In many ways, this last is a sharper, clearer treatment of polarity, shamanic ecstasy and mystical transfiguration than the novella itself. Book review: Metaphysical novella ‘The Creator’ by Mynona blurs the boundary between dream and reality 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z His catalog — at least 24 books, including novels, novellas, story collections and works of nonfiction — runs the gamut from high-octane crime writing and romances to political commentary and historical fiction. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Up close, we cannot ignore our present-day complicity with history even as the novella moves propulsively toward tomorrow’s inevitability. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Makes Virginia’s Past Present in ‘My Monticello.’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z In May, it followed up with the first English translation of “Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers,” the novella that put Tucholsky on the literary map when it was published in 1912. Giving a Satirist of the Third Reich the Last Laugh 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Which brings us to “Cowboy Graves,” a newly published collection of “three novellas.” Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Indeed, the strongest literary aspect of this novella is its voice. An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z This novella in three parts is both thriller and parable. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The four stories here — one is a long novella of shifting tone and focus; the others are short and more directed — differ widely from one another. Review: Colum McCann’s ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking,’ Stories Linked by Unease 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The musical, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and based on a 1958 film, as well as a novella that preceded it, was first staged in 1973. With No Tony in Hand, 'Gigi' Will Close This Month 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The film is adapted from Madame de La Fayette’s 1662 novella of the same title, published anonymously. Cloying Royals Scheme for Greater Glory 2010-05-19T13:38:00Z The English-language version of the novella will be available to read online at www.breetanner.com from June 7 until July 5. Author Stephenie Meyer to release "Eclipse" novella 2010-03-30T17:12:00Z Based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella, the story delves into questions of identity, psychosis and self-preservation with absurd and sometimes agonizing humor. | A Comedy Director Gets Serious 2014-05-02T21:15:47Z There are currently two series on the air based on his work, and now there's an upcoming TV movie based on his novella "Big Driver." Stephen King's 'Big Driver' to become Lifetime movie 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z After this section, which reads like an extremely well-wrought novella, the book largely shifts register from the dramatic to the analytic. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z Thus I admit with some embarrassment that I’m still hazy on what exactly this novella wishes to convey about Judaism and anti-Semitism. An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z The French director is known for Beau Travail, a loose reworking of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, and White Material, about a French coffee farmer working in an African state during a civil war. Zadie Smith to co-write space adventure with French director Claire Denis 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Cole’s novella, “Every Day Is for the Thief,” came out in Nigeria in 2007, and Random House is publishing it here for the first time in March. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z Each works as a novella, centered on characters in desperate pursuit of an obsession. New & Noteworthy, From Galileo to ‘Dunces’ 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z When he first read a script of “Justified,” based on the Elmore Leonard novella “Fire in the Hole,” Searcy knew Mullen would be a perfect fit. Versatile Nick Searcy shines in FX’s ‘Justified’ 2013-03-25T20:40:19Z Based on an early, little-known epistolary novella called “Lady Susan,” “Love & Friendship” is a reminder that Austen was not only a brilliant architect of screen-friendly plots but also a very funny writer. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I never in my life set out to write a novella. Stephen King: By the Book 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It's like a cross between a novella and a short film. Blair Underwood aspires to book stardom 2010-06-03T19:41:00Z This novella — which was abridged in The New Yorker in 2010 — is now being released as a book in the United States. 15 Books Coming in November 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The role of young Miles in Benjamin Britten’s 1954 adaptation of Henry James' spooky novella raises particular challenges. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z It became the setting for Joseph Conrad’s influential 1899 novella “Heart of Darkness”. Belgium's Africa Museum reopens to confront its colonial demons 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The collection, three short stories and a novella, is published on high-quality sustainably harvested paper. Russo's newest work pays tribute to printed books 2012-06-24T16:23:12Z The collection’s longest story, “An Exotic Marriage,” is more of a novella, and explores physical transformation as a metaphor for the shifting of identities in a relationship. Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z What follows is a poignant quartet of linked novellas: one for each sibling as an adult. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The stories vary from formal experiments to deeply felt character meditations, from a three-page piece of flash fiction to a well-developed novella, and from heartbreak to horror to humor. A Poltergeist Who Adores Apricots and Cat-Loving A.I. 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z A novella dripping in genre elements, this odd tale stars an unnamed 21-year-old college student who stops off in Innsmouth, a dumpy, insular fishing town. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z I first saw Jack Clayton’s The Innocents – an adaptation of Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw – on television when I was about 20 and it didn’t leave a big impression on me. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z This year I intend to sally forth with a carefully selected collection of novellas. Take out holiday reading insurance: stick to novellas 2010-07-21T12:38:00Z Experimental fiction demands that the experiments justify their existence, and this novella only half does. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Others said the novella was insensitive toward those who had genuinely suffered under Communism in East Germany. Christa Wolf wins Thomas Mann literature prize 2010-10-25T16:56:00Z This one's a novella published in 1888 – seven years before the Time Machine. Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books 2012-11-28T13:38:00Z The most vivid and lasting impression is left by Arm, short for Douglas Armstrong, the central character in “Calm With Horses,” the 89-page novella that anchors the collection. In Colin Barrett’s ‘Young Skins,’ a Small Irish Town’s Aimless Denizens 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z That's especially true of the title novella, narrated by a writer and producer on a network crime show. George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Andrew Ervin is the author of a novel, “Burning Down George Orwell’s House,” and a novella collection, “Extraordinary Renditions.” Bored in Brazil: Is She the 21st-Century Ugly American? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z This is a set for an imaginary version of Muriel Spark's 1963 novella The Girls of Slender Means. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z After all, “Of Mice and Men” is required reading in most schools, and everyone in the audience was expected to make it through that 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning novella, like it or not. Lit Class Field Trip, Movie Star Edition 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z A lot of people know Jim Harrison’s fiction, and there’s a lot of it to know — before his death, in 2016, he published a dozen novels and nine collections of novellas. Famed for Fiction, Jim Harrison Was Also a Poet of Prodigious Appetites 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Grimes is at her best in this novella in verse about a daydreaming girl named Gabby who navigates the woes and wonder of her young life by soaring between the lines and finding her voice. Kwame Alexander aims to win readers who are at the age he hated books 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The Sherlockactor read the novella in its entirety to celebrate its 100th anniversary. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z In the second novella — or the first, depending on your particular edition of this book — we follow the life of a 16-year-old girl, George, an acerbic high school student in contemporary England. Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith While collecting marine life, he filed away details and netted stories, such as one from La Paz that he polished into his novella “The Pearl.” On Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, a voyage of discovery 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z I published the first Villanelle novella on Amazon in early 2014, and the second the following year. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z That theme receives its most effective treatment in the final novella called “Home,” which involves a Canadian politician who loses his wife. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z These are the means by which Tuck enfolds various misreadings and misconceptions into the fabric of her novella — both those integral to the 1847 story and those surrounding its contemporary reception. ‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Having read Colm Toibin’s text in its published from, as a novella, I was transfixed by the dispassionate beauty of the writing. ArtsBeat: Brantley, Isherwood Answer Readers’ Questions About the Theater Season 2013-05-02T17:29:09Z Same deal with the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Body. The 10 Absolute Best Stranger Things References 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The story borrows not from the original ballet but from the Cervantes novella “La Gitanilla,” a tale of a smart, strong gypsy woman with a hidden identity. Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And that was ‘Goodbye, Columbus’ ” — the title novella of Mr. Roth’s first book. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z His 1843 novella, "A Christmas Carol," in which the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge found redemption by embracing Dickens' prescriptions for the holiday, was a hit with the public. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Of the five pieces in the collection, though, it is the title novella that best demonstrates Johnson’s creative skill. Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z While it’s not a full-length book, I’d say “The Pit,” which is a novella I wrote for George R. R. Martin’s anthology “Warriors.” James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z While Catcher in the Rye is Salinger’s most celebrated and well-known book, Franny and Zooey, a novella about the brilliant but tortured Glass family, is a close second. 5 life lessons from J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” 2013-09-12T13:40:00Z Composed of a trilogy of novellas that originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ”Canticle,” which was released in 1959, has never been out of print, selling more than two million copies. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “Broken,” the novella that opens the book, is like a fragment from Winslow’s recent police novel “The Force.” A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The Turn of the Screw” is just one of those two flawless novellas; that and “Heart of Darkness.” David Mitchell is over the genre wars: “Confining an entire genre as being unworthy of your attention is a bizarre act of self-harm” 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z In the original novella, written by Stephen King, the character named Red is Irish. Director Quits ‘All My Sons’ Amid Dispute Over Cast’s Racial Makeup 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The stories about Jim’s adventures writing for film began when Jack Nicholson loaned him ten thousand dollars to live on for the time it would take to write three novellas that might make good movies. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Richard Greenberg's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic 1958 novella is extremely faithful - some chunks of dialogue have been lifted directly from the book - without adding much. Review: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is ill-conceived 2013-03-20T23:46:16Z Capote was already a celebrated writer — of the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the spectacular nonfiction crime book "In Cold Blood." Joanne Carson's Capote-edited memoir chapter still in limbo 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Andrew Ervin is the author of the novel “Burning Down George Orwell’s House” and the novella collection “Extraordinary Renditions.” Review | J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Malcolm,” along with the novella “63: Dream Palace,” is perhaps the book that most closely fits this mold. The Strange, Unsettling Fiction of James Purdy 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The screenplay folded into the six novellas hand in glove. Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z I printed out Mary Gaitskill’s novella “This Is Pleasure” from The New Yorker’s website this summer, and read it in a single sitting. New & Noteworthy, From Flannery O’Connor to Cigarettes 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The classical novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on which it is based, is not necessarily a children’s story to begin with. Washington National Opera’s tuneful ‘Little Prince’ pleases kids — or does it? 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Rather than overlap, the novellas resonate with one another, allowing Birdsong, a poet, to display an impressive range of perspectives. The Lives of Black Women, at Home and Abroad 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Chuck Palahniuk, the author best known for his violent 1996 novel “Fight Club,” is offering readers a preview of his next project: a novella in coloring book form. Chuck Palahniuk wrote 'Fight Club.' His next work of fiction will be a coloring book 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z This taut South Korean novella — about the murder of a beautiful teenage girl, as recalled from the alternating perspectives of three women who knew her — is not so much narrated as spilled, confessed, blurted out. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The flawed heroes of each novella are played by and against him. Perspective | What’s the greatest book about politics? Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and others weigh in. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It is a tribute to an open society that this novella was for many years required reading for Israeli schoolchildren. Ian McEwan on winning the Jerusalem prize 2011-02-24T11:30:36Z The novella "The Corn Maiden" is the centrepiece. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2012-12-27T05:59:01Z “Gwendy’s Magic Feather” is a novel-length sequel to “Gwendy’s Button Box,” a novella written in collaboration with Stephen King and set in the heart of King’s fictional backyard: Castle Rock, Maine. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Now, in these novellas, Frank is retired, in his late sixties, and there’s a kind of elegiac undertone to your writing. Living with Frank Bascombe: An Interview with Richard Ford 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The 2017 Stephen King renaissance creeps along in a new adaptation of a novella he published seven years ago. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hell or High Water’ and ‘This Is the End’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The “Kreutzer” Sonata’s tumultuous dialogue and seething drama inspired Tolstoy’s novella of the same name. Music Review: Mannes Beethoven Institute Faculty Concert at Mannes College 2012-06-07T21:52:55Z The intervening years have yielded 13 new stories ranging in length from a one-page vignette — a child’s impressions of a visit to the Tom Mix Museum — to full-scale novellas. Review | John Crowley continues an uncharacteristically prolific period with the singular ‘And Go Like This’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Clive’s novella has profound things to say about “the distances at which we keep each other.” Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z Thousands of young writers are creating elaborate fictional plotlines using everything from tabloids to Twitter to fuel stories that recast the lives of their favorite movie and music stars as serialized novellas online. Top Five Stars of Celebrity Fiction Fandom 2013-08-26T09:45:07Z Like news of the cholera epidemic spreading through Italy in “Death in Venice,” Mann’s 1912 novella, reports that the house was on the market were spotted first in the German press. Thomas Mann house by midcentury great J.R. Davidson: L.A.'s next big teardown? 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In 1890, Zola told the New York Herald that the novella was a “nightmare, born of a diseased imagination.” Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z This is indeed the outline of Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella “Heart of Darkness” — though Americans might be more familiar with Francis Ford Coppola’s gonzo film adaptation, “Apocalypse Now.” Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Charming Village, Check; Quirky Residents, You Bet Stephen King’s novella “The Colorado Kid” features two old men who run a small newspaper in Maine, a female summer intern and a 25-year-old mystery. | 'Haven': New Syfy Series, Based on a Stephen King Tale 2010-07-08T22:11:00Z The series, which begins Thursday on Spike, is a heavily adapted and updated version of Mr. King’s novella from the early 1980s about a town enveloped by a mysterious and lethal fog. Review: ‘The Mist’ Rolls in, Bearing Small-Town Stereotypes 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Then she started looking for original work, and published a debut novella, “Every Day Is for the Thief,” by Teju Cole, which went on to become a critical sensation in Britain and the United States. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The novella, which is the most read and translated book in the French language, was described as "a classic, beautifully retranslated which retains all the ineffable charm of the original." Culturally diverse books in translation make up Marsh award shortlist 2013-01-17T15:24:11Z Two riffs on a shared theme, these novellas do invite comparison to one another, but they bolster one another too. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Along with a new “Game of Thrones” prequel adapted from novellas by George R.R. Adapt or Die 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The original was a sliver of a novella, barely featuring Bond at all, and told from the point of view of a Canadian motel employee with whom he has a brusque one-night stand. My favourite Bond film: The Spy Who Loved Me 2012-09-28T10:21:34Z In his novella Serve The People, a young soldier and his superior's wife fuel their illicit passion by smashing and desecrating the words and images of Chairman Mao. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z I can’t think of a single novella I love, although there are plenty of great short novels, like “Of Mice and Men,” “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “Flowers for Algernon.” Stephen King: By the Book 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The trouble is the story, based on a novella by the brilliantly risqué Colette. Updated 'Gigi' still a relic of its era 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Pro-Kremlin activists accused him of promoting cannibalism and tried to ban his novella “Nastya,” a grisly allegory about a girl who is cooked and eaten by her family. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Then my eye fell upon “If It Bleeds,” the new collection of novellas by Stephen King. Can’t Sleep? Let Stephen King Keep You Company 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z He started his career in mainstream cinemas and remembers showing cult classics such as "A Clockwork Orange", the 1971 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novella. Paris porno cinema makes lone stand against the Web 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z From this I guessed that one of the handicapped adults must have been Adrian and Veronica's child.Even a novella requires an ending, so I suppose I had better cut to the chase. Digested read: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 2011-08-15T20:30:04Z Adapted from the 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this dark dramedy follows Simon’s futile attempt to adopt his doppelgänger’s likable traits until the torment eventually drives him mad. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Young Sheldon’ and ‘The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z “It’s more like a big novel than a novella.” In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Sudden wealth makes a family ruthless in this crisply plotted novella, translated from Kannada, a spiky, scary story of moral decline and a parable of rising India. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Backed by government and guns, the scientists prove to be colonialists by another name, an idea that the filmmakers bat around a bit, including in allusions to Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness.” Review: ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Crosses a 1933 Classic With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The novella and the opera do more than describe the closet, with its anxiety and coded messages; detached and diffident, they feel closeted themselves. Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z In his car Yossi listens to the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, which was the theme for the movie “Death in Venice,” adapted from the Thomas Mann novella, which he happens to be reading. Movie Review: ‘Yossi,’ by Eytan Fox, Depicts a Gay Doctor in Israel 2013-01-25T00:59:22Z Before Audrey Hepburn shimmied into that iconic black dress and dangled her cigarette holder between two fingers, the story of Holly Golightly existed only between the covers of Truman Capote’s beloved novella. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z First up was Rebecca Harding Davis’s novella “Life in the Iron Mills,” originally published anonymously in The Atlantic Monthly in 1861. 50 Years On, the Feminist Press Is Radical and Relevant 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s most evident in “The Last Ride,” the book’s final novella, which boils with grief and rage over the United States’ policy of separating immigrant children from their parents in detention camps. A Master of Thrills Shows His Range, and His Bite 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The film’s very title is a nod to another artist whose stage fright, or some equivalent thereof, silenced him: It’s the title of the last published novella by J.D. An introduction to the artiste as a terrified performer 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z But these days he seems to specialise in ambitious, highly compressed novellas, which address the reader in an unusual and slightly tricksy fashion. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z It is glaringly overused in a set of stories about Maya and Rhodes, who could have been characters in a novella had Ms. Heiny wanted to weave the requisite connective tissue. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z At 181 pages, “From a Low and Quiet Sea” is scarcely longer than a novella. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Instead, she says, her production’s multimedia approach aims to capture the emotional truth of Kafka’s novella — the haunting sense that even a non-insect-like person may have of “being an unlovely creature.” Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa in the spotlight, and a celebration of Kafka First published in 1843, this novella was directly inspired by its author’s indignation at child labor conditions in newly industrialized England. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In fact, “The High Mountains of Portugal” is actually a set of three delicately connected novellas that take place decades apart. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Ishiguro published “Nocturnes,” a collection of novellas, in 2009, but his last novel was the dystopian “Never Let Me Go,” in 2005, about a group of teenagers raised to be organ donors. ArtsBeat: Kazuo Ishiguro Readies First Novel in 10 Years 2014-04-04T19:47:29Z The horror comics will be written by someone more than familiar with tales of suspense: R. L. Stine, the author of the “Goosebumps” novellas for children. R.L. Stine to Write Man-Thing Series for Marvel 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z With its patterns and repetitions, scrutinising its own workings from every possible angle, the novella becomes a highly wrought meditation on ageing, memory and regret. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written. Ivan Turgenev by Hisham Matar 2011-03-05T00:07:40Z Likewise, the narrative voices that animate these stories veer from the straightforward prose of the opening novella, “Blue Rose,” to the more surrealistic content of the later entries. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z In one novella here, the narrator recalls about certain movies, “It seems to me that the clouds, sun, and shadows of my 20th year miraculously live on in those films.” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The novella, “Lady Susan,” was finally released more than 50 years after her death, but the story never really caught on with devotees of her other, more famous works. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But, most important, one of the characters in my novella died. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z In a neat trick worthy of one of her parent-child-generosity novels, Rodgers gave her son his most successful idea: adapting Elizabeth Spencer’s 1960 novella “The Light in the Piazza.” Beyond 'Freaky Friday': An Appreciation of Mary Rodgers 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z More of a novella, or a long short story, Point Omega is a fragment of classic DeLillo, apparently rooted in time and place: 2006, late summer, early fall. The American dream 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z ‘The Anthem’ It’s complete folly to adapt Ayn Rand’s wooden novella “Anthem,” a belabored paean to individualism, as a straight stage drama. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Freud approved of the novella's happy end, but wryly warned that where writers could give pleasure and enjoyment, his own observations would be "clumsier and the yield of pleasure less". Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z A revised and shortened version of that novella makes up the first of this novel’s three sections. Review: ‘What Belongs to You,’ a Story of Desire and Outcomes 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The novella will be published in October in the U.S. by Random House and in Britain by Scepter. David Mitchell to publish novella based on his Twitter story 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z His decades of writing, published originally in German, include “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,” a critically acclaimed novella based on his mother’s death. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Now he’s putting them down on paper in a different genre: the novella. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z "Some would turn into novellas and some would turn into novels and some would turn into series," the author said. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer's new Twilight book, tops charts after one day 2010-06-09T11:50:00Z The magical universe of Saint-Exupéry’s wistful, poetic novella is rendered in stop-motion animation, with pastel shades that evoke his original watercolor illustrations. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It helps that this book begins with an almost 90-page novella that also showcases his cunning and technique. Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z That one was based on Kafka’s novella about a man who discovers one morning that he now resides in the body of an insect. ‘The Tenant,’ Reimagined by the David Lynch of Dance 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z When the novella is over, my daughter asks me what happened next. William Goldman’s Strange, Sad, Captivating Children’s Book About a Girl and Her Blanket 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z For Tolstoy, although associated with the broadest of canvases, was also a supremely competent miniaturist, as you'll be able to see from these two novellas. The Death of Ivan Ilyich/The Devil by Leo Tolstoy ? review 2011-07-28T09:00:00Z Perhaps he is just identifying with the protagonist in his new film The Double - a surreal reworking of Dostoevsky's novella of the same name. Richard Ayoade does The Double 2014-04-07T05:50:06Z It consists of three novellas, all featuring the character of Governor Arthur Fenstemaker, who closely resembles LBJ, with all his wiles, cunning and political artistry. Perspective | What’s the greatest book about politics? Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and others weigh in. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “The Cockroach,” his satirical new Brexit novella, is his second book this year and his third in three years. Ian McEwan’s Political Satire ‘The Cockroach’ Offers a Reversal of Kafka 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Last year’s “Elevation” was a lovely, fable-like novella about the divisions running like fault lines through the country. Review | Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ turns our political moment into gripping horror 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The Victorian detective originally appeared in 56 short stories and four novella, including the famous "Hound of the Baskervilles". London show holds up magnifying glass to Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z This novella, written in language that soars and sometimes attains the sublimity of poetry, is another sad tale. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z Consider his sold-out appearance, on Dec. 9, 1867, at Steinway Hall on 14th Street in Manhattan, where he kept the audience rapt for 90 minutes as he read his 1843 novella aloud. Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z World premieres for the Royal Opera include Philip Glass’s “The Trial,” based on the Kafka novella, and Soren Nils Eichberg’s “Glare,” both to be staged in the smaller Linbury Studio Theater. ArtsBeat: Virginia Woolf Ballet and New Philip Glass Work Highlight Royal Opera House Season 2014-03-31T17:26:21Z But if parts of “The Cove” suggest an overextended novella more than a full-bodied book, the final pages dispel any doubts. Books of The Times: ?The Cove,? a Novel by Ron Rash 2012-04-01T18:46:33Z It needs to be considered as a novella, the perfect novella, entirely separate from the rest of “Dubliners.” Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z |
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