Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident ...

A crackling new biography captures the formidable personality and often eerie writings of the “Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” creator Muriel Spark. By Alexandra Jacobs Because we could all use a laugh. By ...

Director David Lowery talks about Mother Mary, a new film starring Anne Hathaway as the titular global pop icon who turns to ...

Obliged to summarize in one sentence Muriel Spark’s 1973 novel The Hothouse by the East River, a hapless library cataloguer wrote, “A group of people struggles to regain control over their lives as ...

Coming just four years after the cloth edition of Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories, which introduced readers to 10 new Spark tales, this collection tacks ...

In late June 1961, Muriel Spark traveled to Jerusalem to attend the trial of Adolf Eichmann. She was there to report for the Observer, but no writing connected to her trip would appear until 1965, ...

Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident someone picks up one of these pens … I throw that pen out the window. I ...

Muriel Spark’s publishers have this year accorded her the privilege usually reserved for major writers: they have reissued her minor work, to make all available. Perilous though it be, a writer wants ...

It was on Easter Saturday that we heard the sad news that the Scottish poet and novelist Muriel Spark had died, age 88, in Florence (her adopted home for many years). We thought, “How suitable that it ...

The following is an interview held by Five Books for Catholics with Christopher J. Scalia about Muriel Spark’s life and work. Muriel Spark’s life was as eccentric and messy as any character from her ...

Because we could all use a laugh. By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Cari Vander Yacht Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them to curl up with a book. Maggie ...