In her four exquisite between-the-wars novellas, set among the half-shadowed demimonde of Paris and London, Jean Rhys wrote of the horror of a series of small rooms, from dreary Paddington bedsits to ...

Most writers aren’t nearly as interesting as readers might imagine. Jean Rhys, though, was not like most writers. She was painfully shy when sober and dangerously unhinged when not; the story of her ...

The best biographies marry the talents of a perceptive biographer and a complicated subject. In Miranda Seymour's new biography of British writer Jean Rhys, readers will find a perfect match. Seymour ...

Banks is former editor in chief of Bookforum. Most writers aren’t nearly as interesting as readers might imagine. Jean Rhys, though, was not like most writers. She was painfully shy when sober and ...

To mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of writer Jean Rhys (born 24 August 1890) 4 Extra is rebroadcasting an affectionate, intimate and frank portrait by the woman who typed her last manuscript.

The life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys is at once well-known and mysterious. Her career dipped and soared across both halves of the last century, across changes of name (Ella Gwendoline “Gwen” ...

An expert in literary classics recommends 5 rich, classic page-turners to read over summer – and explains why they’re still relevant today. She also shares her favourite lines. A new biography of Jean ...

In June 1931, in a letter to her friend and fellow writer Evelyn Scott, Jean Rhys spelled out a recurring, and apparently insoluble, problem that she had with publishers: “I am always being told that ...

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria. Plus revisiting Jean Rhys with Miranda Seymour and Jo Hamya. Show more Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish, the ex-Marine whose ...

In 1979, some months after Jean Rhys died at 88, her unfinished autobiography, Smile Please, was published. It is fractured and elliptical, emblematic of her life, which was as complicated as it was ...

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish, the ex-Marine whose debut won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His new novel The War for Gloria explores modern masculinity and misogyny through the lens of Corey ...