Author Carlos Fuentes died on Tuesday at a Mexico City hospital at the age of 83, the National Council for Culture and the Arts has confirmed. Mexico’s best-known novelist was celebrated for his writings on the failures of the Mexican revolution.
Coming up in today's literary review, we pay our respects to "Where the Wild Things Are" creator Maurice Sendak, children's literature icon who's died at age 83. Also on the show, we look at the Kerouac revival going on here in France. With a film adaptaion of "On the Road", the original 120-foot scroll on display for the first time in Paris and two previously unpublished works by the Beat Generation icon just out, Augustin Trapenard will prove that the beat definitely does go on!
In today’s show, we look at Madonna's ode to Wallis Simpson, WE, which has been slated by the critics. Also on the programme: an Israeli spy film reimagines the killing of a Hamas operative with the help of a supermodel, and we discover writer Esther Freud's portrait of the funny and brutal world of acting in "Lucky Break".
Maurice Sendak (pictured left), the author and illustrator of beloved children’s books such as “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen”, died early on Tuesday at a hospital in the US state of Connecticut at the age of 83.
One small step for Christian Louboutin, one giant leap into the history books: the shoe designer launches a retrospective exhibition in London. Also on the show: American indie band The Rapture kick off their European tour in France. Plus, literary sensation Justin Torres talks about a family grappling with a dangerous and chaotic love for each other, what it means to become a man and the fact that we are all animals.
This week, we introduce you to two novels haunted by the ghosts of the war which served as a kind of therapy for the authors. France 24’s book critic Augustin Trapenard compares "Bereft" by Australian novelist Chris Womersley, which takes place in Australia in 1919, with William Wharton’s 1978 classic "Birdy".
