Giant is a generous and pitiless portrait of Roald Dahl
This Royal Court play about the author’s anti-Semitism argues for and against Israel with a composure as uncanny as one…
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New Thinking.
This Royal Court play about the author’s anti-Semitism argues for and against Israel with a composure as uncanny as one…
ByThe Warner Bros origin story for the chocolatier adds songs and removes nastiness from Roald Dahl’s tale – for the…
ByKids are expected to shrug off a daily barrage of sexual and violent imagery – but are seen as too…
BySanitising the writer’s legacy may help him remain profitable – but his books can’t be easily cleaned up.
ByA streak of pure nastiness runs through the author’s anarchic, beloved children’s literature – just as it did through his…
ByWhen I interviewed him in 1983, Dahl was polite and not unfriendly. But he was a bigot.
ByUnlike some, the author’s prejudice seems not to seep into his books. But that doesn’t mean we should view his…
ByMatilda is a reminder that the family we choose can be more valuable than the one we were born into –and that…
ByRoald Dahl was an industry of one for an extraordinary length of time. For decades, there was no Stones to…
ByHis life story as well as his writings evoke compliments, controversy, and contradictory responses from both critics and readers.
ByHe seemed genuinely delighted to hear that I had, only the other week, electrocuted myself by plunging a rusted knitting…
ByFor all that Dahl can be both bullying and brilliant, these letters remind us who the writer was really trying…
ByListening to Roald Dahl: In His Own Words was like hearing the writer's whole ouvre compressed into one short monologue.
ByDespite being well over the age of their intended audiences, I read all of this year’s World Book Day books.
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