The author of children’s favorites like ‘Matilda’ was a complicated man. A new biography reminds us just how complicated. In the brisk and concise “Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected,” Matthew ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite Dahl publicly admitting he was anti-Semitic in an interview shortly before his death at age 74, in addition to a number of ...

In ‘In Search of Lost time,’Marcel Proust warns of the futility of regretting one’s past. “We are not provided with wisdom,” he writes, “we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the ...

The book allows us to construct our own understanding of Dahl and his oeuvre of weird, inventive, and wickedly funny narratives. ‘Transcription’ Review: Ben Lerner Walks a Tightrope Between Fact and ...

The iconic children’s book writer Roald Dahl (1916–1990) concluded his last book, The Minpins (1991) with these poignant words: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you ...

When I was growing up, I worked my way eagerly through the works of Maurice Sendak, and then E.B. White, and then Beverly Cleary. By the time I finally reached the novels of Roald Dahl, however, I ...