Angela Carter
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In a year that has seen landmark biographies, literary reinventions and the loss of some leading lights, here are six female authors whose work lives on
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What the critics thought of Stella Duffy’s London Lies Beneath; The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon and A Day in the Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield
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Brief letters: Fin whales | Weighing passengers | Traffic | Quakers | Angela Carter
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She and her bookshop’s staff have assembled a great, inclusive list. As with all lists, there are annoying omissions – but I’m not sure I could have done better
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Inspired by 17th-century Italian fairytales, Matteo Garrone’s thrilling circus of sex and violence is definitely not one for the children
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Breaking the conventions of literary and genre storytelling, these narratives have appealed to writers from Angela Carter to Helen Oyeyemi
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As a response to Gay Talese’s failure to name any inspirational female writers, we asked our readers to explain why and how these authors changed their lives
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Bachelor’s Day comes once every four years, but women in books – from the Wife of Bath to Persuasion’s Anne Elliot – have often made their intentions clear
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This fictionalised showbiz memoir contains all the juicy Shakespearean tropes of ambition, greed and revenge, expressed with a breathtaking lyricism
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Carter’s early verse contains, as if in bud, the extravagant and sinister blossoms of her later work. As a new collection of her poems is published, Rosemary Hill uncovers some forgotten treasures
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From the Virgin Mary to Chaucer’s Criseyde to the narrator of The Bloody Chamber, here are the most memorable fainters, female and male
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The great Christian feast to mark the coming of the Magi has made numerous, distinctly secular, appearances in literature
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The film’s ideology still stinks, says Angela Carter, but see what’s going on between the lines…
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With its five sets of twins, its mistaken identities and its unlikely coincidences, Carter’s final novel puts the magic into family life, writes Kit Buchan
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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A lifetime of investigation into storytelling has gone into this gem of a book from the queen of fairytales, writes Amanda Craig
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Strumpets to courtesans, molls to midnight gigolos, escorts to extras, suggest your pleasures in song for this week's potent topic, says Peter Kimpton
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It's the end of Shakespeare's birthday week, but the playwright has provided year-round inspiration for writers from Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith
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Imelda Staunton is whip-sharp in a great new US play about class, writes Susannah Clapp
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With the season of gift-giving upon us, literature provides some great examples of the delicate art of parcelling prose
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Liz Jensen finds herself on a magical mystery tour that loses its way
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Some books are easy to leave behind while others won't let you go. As an Angela Carter craze sweeps through our readers, the quest for a cure has begun
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From Charles Dickens to Angela Carter, these stories capture the high-mindedness, ambition and selfishness of this 'season of extremes'
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Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman, Gone Again by Doug Johnstone, The Quickening by Julie Myerson, We Are Here by Michael Marshall and The Catch by Tom Bale
Reading group Nights at the Circus is feminist, but its 'psychedelic Dickens' is not a lecture