Muriel Spark

A Schiaparelli evening gown plays a central role in The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, which is a very entertaining novella set in WWII London.

Great Dresses of Mediocre Literature, Meta-Discussion - A Dress A Day 2008

If Rendell / Vine's suspense novels seem unlikely to please mystery buffs (there isn't a real crime in "The Birthday Present" until the end), the association with straightforward whodunits leads them to be overlooked by admirers of Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan or Muriel Spark, which is a shame.

Salon 2009

There are plenty of cultural references – from the myth of Tithonos to VS Pritchett's introduction to Muriel Spark's Memento Mori and back again – but I never really felt Wolpert was at home with the non-scientific aspects of organic entropy; whereas when he comes to writing about the biology of ageing he waxes very lucid indeed.

You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review 2011

Muriel Spark - Memento Mori 1959In Spark's scathing fable, the egalitarianism of NHS care is anything but consoling.

Safe in their hands? Margaret Drabble on the threat facing the NHS 2011

This was my third time in the great northern seat of culture, the original UNESCO City of Literature, home to Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh's his loo-diving trainspotters.

Barry Yourgrau: A Remembrance In Edinburgh Barry Yourgrau 2012

Hear Ali Smith musing on Muriel Spark; learn about lyric-writing with Everything But The Girl's Ben Watt pictured; or discover how Tom Rachman found fictional fodder in the newsroom.

This week's new events 2011

And I think that's the whole thing about loitering with intent, and Muriel Spark's notion that that's what writers do.

On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011

J.G. Farrell and Muriel Spark were among the authors shortlisted Thursday for an unusual take on Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize.

Lost Booker Prize Shortlist Announced: Books That Should Have Won In 1970 2010

J.G. Farrell and Muriel Spark were among the authors shortlisted Thursday for an unusual take on Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize.

Lost Booker Prize Shortlist Announced: Books That Should Have Won In 1970 2010

In the fall of 1962, the British writer Muriel Spark (1918-2006) came to Manhattan thinking about a change in her life.

"Muriel Spark: The Biography" by Martin Stannard, reviewed by Elaine Showalter 2010