Not Joyce, not Kafka, not Proust, not Pasternak, not Garcia Marquez, not Bellow. The most important 20th-century novelist for a 21st-century reader could well be Lawrence Durrell. This year celebrates ...

I tell you love sister it’s just a kiss away. – Jagger & Richards Nothing but the act of physical love tells us the truth about one another. – Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell, like Jagger and ...

I am writing this in Corfu, the island that was Lawrence Durrell's first European home, a compensation for his lost childhood in India. In Corfu, where he lived from 1935 to 1939, Durrell said, ...

Lawrence Durrell—one of the greatest British writers and philhellenes of the 20th century—achieved spectacular success with “The Alexandria Quartet,” the first volume of which appeared in 1957. But ...

It's a hugely unusual situation," says Jennifer Condon. "No one's heard of me. I've got the rights to an opera that no one's heard of. I've been working on it for a decade – and then I went and asked ...

Last month saw the centenary of Lawrence Durrell’s birth, an occasion marked by a London gathering of Durrell scholars, a reissue of The Alexandria Quartet and the publication of this account by ...

I am embarrassed to enjoy Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet so much. It was an early passion of mine and one I revisit for the blowsy comfort it provides and for the disconcerting peeling-off of ...

The term "faded grandeur" might have been invented for Alexandria. So much of the resort's cosmopolitan elegance has faded that one more crumbling palace in this part of Egypt might not seem to make ...

THE last time I saw Lawrence Durrell in Paris he was on his way to London, where he was to pick up one of his daughters for the Christinas holidays. He had, as ever, that faintly wind-blown air of a ...