Timothée Chalamet is a sweeter – but weaker – Wonka
The Warner Bros origin story for the chocolatier adds songs and removes nastiness from Roald Dahl’s tale – for the…
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Changes to Roald Dahl reveal our hypocritical attitudes towards children and media
Kids are expected to shrug off a daily barrage of sexual and violent imagery – but are seen as too…
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Roald Dahl’s books are nasty by nature – editing a word or two won’t make them nice
Sanitising the writer’s legacy may help him remain profitable – but his books can’t be easily cleaned up.
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The dark heart of Roald Dahl
A streak of pure nastiness runs through the author’s anarchic, beloved children’s literature – just as it did through his…
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Roald Dahl’s anti-Semitism was grotesque. I should know – I saw it first hand
When I interviewed him in 1983, Dahl was polite and not unfriendly. But he was a bigot.
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I’d still read Roald Dahl’s books to my children, but we can’t forget he was an anti-Semite
Unlike some, the author’s prejudice seems not to seep into his books. But that doesn’t mean we should view his…
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How Roald Dahl’s Matilda became an LGBT+ classic
Matilda is a reminder that the family we choose can be more valuable than the one we were born into –and that…
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A new dramatisation of Roald Dahl’s Boy reminds us of the author’s staggering talent
Roald Dahl was an industry of one for an extraordinary length of time. For decades, there was no Stones to…
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The man behind Matilda – the dark side of Roald Dahl
His life story as well as his writings evoke compliments, controversy, and contradictory responses from both critics and readers.
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How, as a child, I ended up dining with Roald Dahl at a Caribbean golf club
He seemed genuinely delighted to hear that I had, only the other week, electrocuted myself by plunging a rusted knitting…
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Roald Dahl’s letters to his mother show he always had an audience of one
For all that Dahl can be both bullying and brilliant, these letters remind us who the writer was really trying…
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Listening to Roald Dahl: In His Own Words was like hearing the writer's whole ouvre compressed into one short monologue.
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From Roald Dahl to Star Wars, I read all the World Book Day 2016 books on offer
Despite being well over the age of their intended audiences, I read all of this year’s World Book Day books.
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