Love, death and kimchi: how Korean food shaped the haunting sound of Japanese Breakfast
On cabbage and music.
Literature
Ern Malley: how a poet who never existed changed literature forever
The 20th-century’s most elusive poet.
Pissing Money Away: When Ernest Hemingway appropriated his favourite urinal
What goes in must come out.
“Kiss my ass”: when F. Scott Fitzgerald made edits to an Ernest Hemingway masterpiece
A complex relationship…
Five masterpieces of existentialist fiction you need to read before you die
Including classic novels by Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and more.
How Paul Auster subverts detective fiction in ‘The New York Trilogy’
“It seemed inevitable that my story should have a detective element to it.”
Surrealist Iconography: Ayn Rand once picked her all-time favourite painting
The Russian-American novelist had a taste for surrealist art.