Books & the Arts / The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art. Madeleine Watts This essay originally appeared as the ...

The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art. This essay originally appeared as the introduction to The Island (Transit ...

Art and activism are deeply intertwined in his work: ... Antigone in the Amazon. Through June 10 at NTGent, and on tour in Europe; ntgent.be. A version of this article appears in print on ...

Among the great Greek tragedies, perhaps no other has spawned as many successful adaptations and critical reflections as Sophocles’s Antigone. Novelist Will Aitken reminds readers why Antigone remains ...

‘The Other Place’ draws on Sophocles’s tragedy to ask: what do we do when faced with suffering around us?

Antigone Kefala was born in the Romanian city of Brăila in 1931, a city on the Danube close to the modern-day Moldovan border. Kefala’s parents were Greek by heritage, but her family had lived ...

Playwright Alexander Zeldin on reworking Antigone for our times: ‘Art is a moral act — we need it’ on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Sarah Hemming ...