Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...
Inspired by letters shared between the author’s parents, this debut novel set in the pre-Independence period features ...
Subtly but firmly echoing the plight of climate refugees, Flow is not just fiction, but a reality creeping closer to all of ...
Beautifully shot, the film sustains a vaguely aspirational tone, somewhere between the curdled resort tourism of The White ...
The makers of ‘Way Back Love’ have dropped new stills from the upcoming drama promising a fluttering story. The drama stars ...
The notion of ‘coming of age’ is one that has for long been a monopoly for Western popular media, its origin lying in the bildungsroman novel. Naturally, when o ...
“Original Sins,” “Strike,” “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” and “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.” ...
The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.
An Ozian bildungsroman, it relates how the infant Elphie, all verdant potential, develops into the morally precocious yet emotionally guarded adolescent Elphaba. Readers new to the series may be ...
Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.
This genre, popularly referred to as Künstlerroman — stepbrother of the Bildungsroman — has emerged as a millennial favourite. Alina Gufran’s 28-something protagonist Sophia — a Muslim ...
In this turn-of-the-century, food-and-media-world bildungsroman, Woolever moves to New York, works as a gardener and as a private chef before attending culinary school. She becomes Batali’s ...