Nov 13th, 2008 · An adaption of Yasunari Kawabata's 1961 novella, Sleeping Beauties is a wistful erotic mystery centered around an eccentric German brothel. Mark Jenkins calls it artful and delicate — but with an oddly tone-deaf ending.
Aug 29th, 2008 · Benjamin Britten's final, haunting opera Death in Venice (based on Thomas Mann's novella) finds an aging writer obsessed with one particular kind of beauty that leads to his downfall, in a production from Glimmerglass Opera.
Dec 16th, 2007 · A 1950s novella gets its fourth big-screen adaptation this winter. Neda Ulaby talks to the story's fans and the film's creators to find out why the apocalypse just keeps on coming.
Dec 14th, 2007 · Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade is an idea-driven film based on a Romanian philosopher's delicate novella. It's about an aged academic who becomes young again when he's struck by lightning.
Dec 5th, 2007 · Alabama native Michael Knight has published a timely book. His pair of novellas, collected under the title The Holiday Season, tell the story of families weathering Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Nov 17th, 2007 · Scott Simon talks with writer and All Things Considered book reviewer Alan Cheuse about The Fires, his new book of two new novellas.
Oct 9th, 2007 · During the past four decades, Paul Theroux has produced more than two dozen works of fiction and half as many widely read travel books. His latest work of fiction, The Elephanta Suite, comprises three novellas set in modern India.
Nov 7th, 2006 · The title novella in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle, says Scott Turow, "achieves the shocking brevity and power of the best poems." Turow, the author of Presumed Innocent and other novels, talks about why Olsen's story about an aged couple has become one of his favorite texts.