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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Blood, Sex and Money is a groundbreaking adaptation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga for BBC Radio 4. The first part 'Blood' is now available on ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Emile Zola published his famous 4,500-word essay, “J’Accuse ...

When, in 1894, a list of French military secrets turned up in a wastebasket at the German Embassy in Paris, French intelligence scrambled to find the culprit. Or a culprit, at least. They soon settled ...

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 ...

Frederick Brown is the author of "Zola: A Life" and is writing a biography of Gustave Flaubert. During the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 1902, Emile Zola died in his sleep of carbon monoxide ...

History fated Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus to forever be footnotes in each other’s stories. Dreyfus, a military officer wrongly convicted of treason, sparked an antisemitism scandal that split French ...

Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant with a fierce passion for the truth. A friend of Cezanne and Manet, he started out as a journalist and never lost the desire to hunt down a story; ...

Paul Cézanne was not only "the father of modern art" but a prodigious writer of letters to his friends, family, patrons and fellow painters. Here - from his own translation of over 250 of these - ...

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 ...