An online screening of award-winning Israeli director and master storyteller Avi Nesher's 2023 film The Monkey House, a moving blend of literary mystery, light comedy and endearing character study, drawn from real events...
Writer Keiron Pim visits the Appel Salon to discuss his new book Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth with host Eleanor Wachtel. The mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Josep...
Near the beginning of Animal Farm, Major recalls (or, at least, claims to recall) a song that he had heard when he was a piglet. Major's source - his mother and the other sows - "knew only the tune and the first three wo...
N.D. Stevenson's graphic novel Nimona functions as almost an anti-bildungsroman, a story in which the two central characters, Ballister and Nimona, are alienated from a fundamentally broken society because of their own s...
This talk discusses the history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and its centuries-long relevance and appeal, as well as the various forms the controversial narrative has assumed....