RSC bringing Roald Dahl’s Matilda to Broadway
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans to transport its hit musical Matilda, based on the classic Roald Dahl novel, to New York early next year. Dahl’s beloved children story centers… Read more »
On the BFG, Basil Fawlty and Lars Iyer: fictional characters inspired by real people
Words was oh such a twitch-tickling problem to the BFG. He knew exactly what words he was wanting to say, but somehow or other they was always getting squiff-squiddled around.… Read more »
British government releases list of writers who refused to bow before the Queen
In 2003, J.G. Ballard famously rejected a CBE (Commander of the British Empire), one of the royal honors bestowed annually by the Queen on various luminaries, saying, “I might have been… Read more »