Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves review – a moving variation on Red Riding Hood
Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves review – full-blooded fairytale leaps for the jugular
January 2024
The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved
Editorial: Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas
March 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 stories about wolves
Writers including Angela Carter, Karen Russell and Jiang Rong have looked into the eyes of an animal that roams widely through our stories and stalks our collective imagination
How we made
‘Turning into a wolf was fantastic’: how we made The Company of Wolves
‘Our budget was tiny. The forest was 12 trees on rollers – and for long shots we used bonsai. The crew had worked on Star Wars and thought we were absurd’
Top 10s
Top 10 retold fairytales
The best retellings of these archetypal stories can restore a childlike wonder – and offer startling new reflections of the world we live in now
October 2022
‘A real subversive, sprightly granny’: working with Angela Lansbury by director Neil Jordan
Film-maker Neil Jordan cast Angela Lansbury in his exotic horror folk-tale The Company of Wolves, released in 1984. Here he remembers working with an actor who ‘always understood’
July 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 books about twins
Writers from William Shakespeare to Angela Carter and George RR Martin have been been inspired by the doubled lives of these familial pairs
June 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 forests in fiction
Daphne du Maurier, Mervyn Peake and Angela Carter are among the authors enchanted by these shadowy borderlands of civilisation
December 2021
Angela Merkel bows out to the sound of Beethoven and an East German pop hit
Military band in Berlin honours departing chancellor of 16 years, who hands over to Olaf Scholz next week
June 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about circuses and spectacle
Notebook
No one got Angela Carter like Corinna Sargood
Susannah Clapp
April 2021
Invisible Music by Polly Paulusma review – a vibrant celebration of Angela Carter the folkie
The novelist’s early days on the folk scene are explored on this album of songs and readings
March 2021
Books that made me
Jessie Greengrass: 'Frog and Toad Are Friends contains one of the best jokes ever written'
The author on underrated ‘great of feminist literature’ Gaudy Night, looking forward to every Ian Rankin novel, and never finishing Middlemarch
December 2020
This Christmas, read a story aloud - you'll be surprised by the joy it brings
With many of us set to spend Christmas on Zoom or the phone, author Sarah Hall shares why dark and daring tales are perfect to read to others - and 10 great stories to try
June 2020
A book that changed me
Angela Carter's exploration of life in a female body taught me to be comfortable in my own
Evie Wyld
I was 15 and in the bottom set for most subjects at school. The Magic Toyshop changed everything, says author Evie Wyld
February 2020
'Any attempt is perilous!' How do you adapt a novel for the stage?
Top 10s
Top 10 random encounters in literature
September 2019
The LRB is 40. We never thought it would last this long
Angela Carter's 'carnival' London home receives blue plaque
