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Henry Miller

August 2022

  • Margin Call

    Everyone’s a cynic! Film, TV, music, books and art about pessimism

    From Wall Street savagery to withering R&B, choose art that shows humanity at its most misanthropic

November 2020

  • Luke Rhinehart in 2017. His real name was George Cockcroft.

    Luke Rhinehart obituary

    Author of the 1971 cult classic The Dice Man, a novel about a man making decisions based on the roll of a die

June 2020

  • The author Henry Miller (1891 - 1980), California, 1950.

    From the Guardian archive
    Beat generation writer Henry Miller dies – archive, 1980

    9 June 1980: As chief literary anarchist of his day, Miller was a kind of low priest celebrating the last rites of what he regarded as a doomed civilisation

January 2020

  • Hiking on Amorgos, Greece.

    Further reading
    From Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlust

    Rob Doyle chooses his favourite books about the will to travel, including famous female flâneurs and Henry Miller’s holiday in Greece

February 2018

  • An illustration from The Kama Sutra.

    A look back
    From the Observer archive: this week in 1963

    Publishers prepare to release The Kama Sutra and Tropic of Cancer to the British public

December 2016

  • Barney Rosset

    Rosset by Barney Rosset review – a publisher’s fight against censorship

  • 1968, OLIVER!<br>MARK LESTER Character(s): Oliver Twist Film 'OLIVER!' (1968) Directed By CAROL REED 26 September 1968 CTX92022 Allstar/Cinetext/ROMULUS **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 1111z@yx

    Books blog
    Jeremy Hunt's workhouse and the art of misusing a quotation

October 2016

  • Shakespeare and Company

    Shakespeare and Company: a 'socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore' – in pictures

    An English-language bookshop founded by George Whitman on the banks of the Seine in Paris has been hosting writers and selling the occasional book for 65 years. Krista Halverson explores the history of a countercultural institution and the legacy of Sylvia Beach

April 2016

  • David Bowie reading a book, in 1965.

    Why we read: authors and readers on the power of literature

    As World Book Day is celebrated around the world – and World Book Night in the UK – we look at great quotes from authors on why they like reading, as well as some from our own readers

January 2016

  • Couple reading in bed

    A book to share
    Your book-sharing stories: from a grandma’s precious gift to an online date gone wrong

    Here are the titles our readers love to share at any opportunity – plus their best anecdotes around the act of giving and receiving books

September 2015

  • Morrissey, author of a turkey.

    Forget Morrissey’s ‘bulbous salutation’, here are my good sex awards

    Flic Everett
    The singer’s debut novel has been deservedly mocked for its lurid sex scenes. If only he’d studied Flaubert, Kundera or Chaucer before he started writing …

February 2015

  • Tropic Of Cancer

    Books blog
    Tracey Emin and Henry Miller: a perfect match

    Her new covers for Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn restore some of the book’s messy truth, usually effaced by soft-focus glamour

February 2014

  • Louis-Ferdinand Celine

    Books blog
    Why Henry Miller and Louis-Ferdinand Céline deserve success as well as scandal

    Eighty years after their breakthough books, these writers' reputations have declined but their influence is as vital as ever

August 2013

  • Henry Miller in Paris

    A book that changed me
    How Henry Miller's anti-establishment rant liberated me from little England

    John Vidal
    John Vidal: A book that changed me: Living in self-imposed exile in 70s Paris, I found the intellectual revolution I'd been searching for in Colossus of Maroussi

October 2012

  • Henry Miller

    Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books

  • Henry Miller

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 1 October 1965: 'I am somebody', Henry Miller says

May 2012

  • Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer

    Robert McCrum on books
    Where are today's literary nomads?

    Robert McCrum: Writers such as George Orwell and Henry Miller explored deprivation and exigency. Where are their modern counterparts?

April 2012

  • henry miller paris

    Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer by Frederick Turner – review

    Henry Miller found his spiritual home in 1930s Paris, writes Robert McCrum

October 2011

  • Corrections and clarifications
    Corrections and clarifications

  • problem pages from magazines

    Bidisha's thought for the day
    Bidisha's thought for the day: Sex Ed

    Bidisha
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