Madame Bovary

When a Great Teacher Dies... and Lives On

Richard Walden | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Madame Bovary, Culver City High School, Mahatma Gandhi, Teaching, Patricia Logsdon, Power of Women, Education News
Richard Walden

My 10th grade World History teacher, Patricia Logsdon, died this week at age 88. She spent 40+ years teaching at Culver City (CA) High School. Normal...

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The 11 Greatest Affairs In Literature

2011-09-30-Screenshot20110930at3.08.55PM.jpeg | Amy Hertz | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Anna Karenina, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Madame Bovary, Affairs in Books, Ulysses, Kreuzer Sonata, Cheaters in Books, Barnes and Noble, Unfaithful in Literature, Barnes and Noble Review, Divorce News

Story courtesy of Barnes And Noble Review. By Amy Hertz The love that leads to marriage begins with so much promise. But, in books as in life, ...

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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The Writer and the Fallowed Field

Joe Woodward | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Writing, Literary Biography, Fiction, Three Tales, Nathanael West, Biography, Books News
Joe Woodward

Gustave Flaubert wrestles with the ravages of old age, religion, the joy and heartbreak of love, children, and more. Though each of these stories is just some 40 pages long, they loom larger in the imagination.

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The Word: Black Authors On Power Of Reading And Writing

Marita Golden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing, Wil Haygood, John Hope Franklin, Mat Johnson, Nathan McCall, Edwidge Danticat, Madame Bovary, Faith Adiele, Books News
Marita Golden

I knew I wanted to interview a diverse and celebrated group of African Americans writers because they have been so important to the vitality of American literature.

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Madame Bovary: The Exquisite Corpse

Joe Woodward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Madame Bovary, Literary Biography, Literature in Translation, Novels, Gustave-Flaubert-Madame-Bovary, Commericialism, Lydia Davis, Biography, Books News
Joe Woodward

As I've been reading this new Davis translation of Madame Bovary, familiar feelings have come rushing back to me. I always hope things will turn out differently, and this translation is no exception.

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Reading In Public

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reading in Public, Born to Run, Plato, Carson McCullers, Flaubert, Christopher Mcdougall, Dorian Gray, Slidepollajax, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Madame Bovary, Spotted Reading Publicly, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Flannery O'Connor, Books News

It's been too long since we've shared with you the pulse of the people. It's a little segment we like to call Reading In Public! Here's how it works:...

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Why Is Emma Bovary So Misunderstood?

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lydia Davis Translation, Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary, New York Times, Lydia Davis, Bovary, Translations, Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, Translation, Gustave Flaubert, New York Times Book Review, Books News

The author of minimalist short stories, Davis would seem an unlikely match for Flaubert, with his love of metaphor and obsession with detail. In compa...

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Literary Glamour: Playboy and the House of Waris Welcome Their Fabulous Friends to Celebrate Their New Salon

Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yigal Azrouel, Jimmy Jellinek, Playboy, The Boom Boom Room, Paul Haggis, Jamie Johnson, Madame Bovary, House of Waris, Gerard Butler, Nate Lowman, Jay McInerney, Paz De La Huerta, Brooke Geahan, New York News
Melissa Berkelhammer

Gerard Butler joined the festivities at a hush-hush after party at the Boom Boom Room, which lasted well into the night. Need any more convincing that this was the place to be Wednesday evening?

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Bertha In 'Jane Eyre,' Emma In 'Madame Bovary': Were The 'Mad' Heroines Of Literature Really Sane?

BBC News | Vivienne Parry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Madwoman in the Attic, Bertha Rochester, Insanity, Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, Books, Madwomen in the Attic, Heroines, Books News

The violent and feral Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre, the mysterious Woman in White whose escape from an asylum begins Wilkie Collins's gripping thrill...

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Remembering Jennifer Jones and A Perfect Afternoon at the Movies

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jennifer Jones, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Academy Awards, Daniel Selznick, Joesph Cotten, Madame Bovary, Montgomery Clift, New York City, John Huston, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Portrait of Jennie, Karl Malden, The Walter Reade Theater, The Song of Bernadette, Vincent-Minnelli, Deborah Kerr, Beat the Devil, Cluny Brown, Ingrid Bergman, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch, Joan Fontaine, Fred Astaire, David O. Selznick, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Jennifer Jones always defied easy analysis, so much the better for us to simply surrender to her films themselves.

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Breaking Up: Best Books Not To Read Right After (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anna Karenina, Relationships, Best Books, Madame Bovary, Books, Slidepoll, Edit Wharton, Sex and the City, Break Ups, Love in the Time of Cholera, End of the Affair, Portrait of a Lady, Julie and Julia, Bad Break Ups, Bestsellers, Nicole Kidman, Cleaving, Greg Behrendt, The Notebook, Revolutionary Road, Breaking Up, Reading, He's Just Not That Into You, Books News

There's no good time to go through a break up and the holidays are just about the worst. The last thing you want to do is rub salt into a wound by rea...

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Culture Zohn: Sex vs. Spirituality in Thais

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cleopatra, Renee Fleming, Lawrence of Arabia, Metropolitan Opera, Madame Bovary, Cindy Sherman, Jules Massenet, Anna Karenina, Sarah Palin, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2008-12-10-zohnpull.jpg If you were going to choose a way to celebrate the season where spirituality fights tooth and nail with sex on a daily basis, this could not be a better way to go.

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