A Clockwork Orange: should I read the book first or watch the movie first? It goes without saying that I haven't done either--so no spoilers please! PS: ordinarily my first inclination in these ...

Gather round, my droogs. It's time for a story. Not long after the 1971 release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, received an offer from a publisher: ...

What kind of a book do we have in “Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend”? It includes an account of the 16th-century Spanish prince Don Carlos falling down a flight of ...

Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart cooked up the story with novelist Kevin J. Anderson Protagonist is a teenage apple-orchard worker Rush lyrics appear in the prose of the novel%2C and easter eggs dot ...

In Europe of the 1600s, Edward Dolnick tells us, the average life expectancy was 30. Disease was so rampant that in London, deaths outnumbered births. Belief in the supernatural was commonplace, even ...

Last January, I wrote briefly about 18 books from 1923 that had entered the public domain. One of these, “The Clockwork Man,” by E.V. Odle, particularly caught my attention, in part because it was ...

“I think I’ve always been my own kind of person, and you know sometimes to my detriment,” says Malcolm McDowell, chatting to Den of Geek via Zoom, 50 years after the release of A Clockwork Orange.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

What makes a hero? Untold numbers of authors have tried to answer that question, all the while knowing that there can never be a simple solution to such a complex equation. Defining heroism is as ...

%27Clockwork Princess%2C%27 the third in Clare%27s Infernal Devices trilogy%2C to be released Tuesday Her first movie adaptation%2C %27City of Bones%2C%27 is due in ...