By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The Nobel Prize in Literature is the Everest of the literary world. It is a symbol of ultimate…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic In an age of relentless digital noise and fractured attention, the printed book has reasserted itself not as…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic David Herbert Lawrence, a towering and often turbulent figure in early twentieth-century English literature, wielded his pen like…
By Maria Bregman, writer, film and art critic In the hallowed halls of British television drama, the crime procedural is a venerable institution, as established…
By Maria Bregman, writer and art critic In the glittering, chaotic theatre of 1920s Paris, a new kind of woman was taking centre stage. These…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic In the hallowed edit suites and bustling production offices of the United Kingdom’s screen sector, a new collaborator…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic Henry Valentine Miller, a name that reverberates with the clang of controversy and the whisper of literary liberation,…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic F. Scott Fitzgerald, a name forever entwined with the glittering, doomed excess of the Jazz Age, remains one…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The genesis of Robert Louis Stevenson’s chilling novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is as…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic The audacity of attempting to encapsulate Eduard Limonov – poet, provocateur, pugilist, politician – within the confines of…