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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Rosen’s account of Zola’s year of exile sheds light on the great author’s public heroism and personal failings. By Adam Kirsch No one thinks of themselves as being against truth and justice, ...

MARCQ-EN-BAROEUL, France — He was a prolific novelist with a social conscience, the fiery defender of falsely accused Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus. And in his final years, Emile Zola became a ...

Captain Alfred Dreyfus expressed his appreciation of the action of the Y. M. H. A. and Y. W. H. A. of this city in unveiling a bronze bust of Emile Zola in the new Y. M. H. A.-Y. W. H. A. building. In ...

The ideas developed by Émile Zola in the Experimental Novel (Le Roman expérimental), published in 1880, were not fully put into effect until he wrote a trilogy of novels entitled the Three Cities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...