Danny Boyle, the British director of Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire", is to direct a stage play adaptation of "Frankenstein", it was announced on Thursday. Nicholas Hytner, the director of the National Theatre in London, revealed that Boyle will make his debut at the venue by directing a play based on the novel by Mary Shelley later this year. Hytner said the ...

SOME POETS , ARTISTS AND 'A REFERENCE TO MELLORS 'by Anthony Powell Timewell Press,

A novelist needn't know anything, but it's nice when he does. One can't help feeling that previous generations of novelists, often having passed through other professional personae on the route, had rather more to write about. The present-day novelist, probably having tried an English ...

A woman of some importance MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: A NEW GENUS by Lyndall Gordon LittleBrown,

The writer William Mayne has said, 'I don't know why there are supposed to be only two sexes. I can think of at least eight, even before you get to women.' Mary Wollstonecraft, though no wit, would have been pleased with this. She saw herself ...

Boris Karloff never walked these grounds, but the history of Burg Frankenstein may have inspired Mary Shelley's famous monster. It has also inspired one of the oldest Halloween parties in Germany, started by the U.S. Army 31 years ago. Since then an estimated 15,000 people ...