First, a quick announcement. On Monday 19 March at 1pm (GMT), Joanna Hodgkin will be online for a webchat. She'll be talking about her excellent new book Amateurs In Eden, which tells the dramatic ...

All our fashionable blather about “diversity” notwithstanding, we live in an age of ethnic disaggregation. Czechs and Slovaks, Serbs and Croats, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Abkhazians and Ossetians ...

The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell's celebrated tetralogy from the 1950s, was defined by its author as "an investigation of modern love", but has often been regarded by its readers more as an ...

Keith Goldsmith is a former editor and marketing executive with the Knopf Publishing Group. I had never been someone who goes back to reread a favorite book. My library was always beckoning with ...

I am embarrassed to enjoy Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet so much. It was an early passion of mine and one I revisit for the blowsy comfort it provides and for the disconcerting peeling-off of ...

British author Lawrence Durrell spent the Second World War in Alexandria, later using the city as the backdrop for the novels making up his Alexandria Quartet, writes David Tresilian in an occasional ...

Transforming Lawrence Durrell’s massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films ...

“Like a sinus being ground to powder” writes Lawrence Durrell in a typically overreaching description taken from Justine, the first volume of his “Alexandria Quartet.” And his late-50s tetralogy is ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...