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I was sorry that in Arnold Whittall's review of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza I960 (November, page 86) he didn't mention the 1995 Teldec release of the opera (Staatsoper Stuttgart conducted by [...]

The article presents information about Karel Capek, a Czech author. He was born in Bohemia in 1890, on the outskirts of an Austro-Hungarian Empire. By the age of 18 Capek was publishing stories written with his brother Josef . In 1921, at the age of 31, Capek joined the Prague newspaper Lidové noviny, and for the rest of his life he channeled enormous amounts of work through its pages. He was made art director of the National Art Theater in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Capek produced in "Hordubal," "Meteor," and "An Ordinary Life," a stunning, mortuary trilogy of novels, which are accounted by some of his central achievement.

Jostein Gaarder (translated by Sarah Jane Hails) Phoenix House, 16.99 £ I thelps to read the verve of the title page, where the copyright data are stored. The Solitaire Mystery, [...]

Just as Fremder Gorn must learn how to leave the terrible world he lives in, so we must trace a labyrinth in order to enter his book. Like Riddley Walker [...]

Very dreadful things happened before 1765, and the great dramatists of the western world rarely failed to describe them. Shakespeare's cannibalistic Titus Andronicus depicts such dreadful things with (to quote [...]

Very dreadful things happened before 1765, and the great dramatists of the western world rarely failed to describe them. Shakespeare's cannibalistic Titus Andronicus depicts such dreadful things with (to quote [...]

Towards the end of the 1950s, his creative energies thinned out by age, ill-health and too many years in southern California, Aldous Huxley wrote a series of articles about the [...]

JOHN CLUTE John Clute's most recent book is Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986 (Serconia Press). He writes frequently for the Times Literary Supplement of London and The Washington Post. THE [...]

Until the dawning of 1990, it had been a long death for Karel Capek. His heart had broken the moment Neville Chamberlain left Munich in 1938, and his body, wracked [...]

The three novels are tales of relativity, lessons in the contingency of brute fact, and they tell much about the mental condition of Karel Capek, a Czech patriot in a [...]