'London is in want of a writer like Émile Zola,” declared an 1882 editorial in this paper. “Here in this town of splendid palaces, where wine flows like water, and every kind of luxury is present in ...

Thanks be to Warner Brothers for making “The Life of Emile Zola” with such loving care that it emerges on the screen of the Hollywood Theatre as the most distinguished and most important contribution ...

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Warners’ most ambitious film production of many months, “The Life of Emile Zola,” is a vibrant, tense and emotional story about the man who fought a nation with his pen and successfully championed the ...

Born in Paris on April 2, 1840, Emile Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence, where his father, an Italian engineer, had been hired by the municipality to build its waterworks. François Zola died just as ...

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Michael Rosen’s account of Zola’s year of exile sheds light on the great author’s public heroism and personal failings. By Adam Kirsch No one thinks of themselves as being against truth and justice, ...

What inspired Mary Cassatt’s portraits of mothers? Why did Jackson Pollock paint on the floor? Eureka investigates the origins of artists’ most famous works and techniques, unpacking how great art ...

IF it he true that the critical spirit to-day, in presence of the rising tide of prose fiction, a watery waste out of which old standards and landmarks are seen barely to emerge, like chimneys and the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Rosen is best known as a writer of children’s fiction, but his latest book is a study of a little-documented ...