“LOVE FROM BOY: ROALD DAHL’S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER” Edited by Donald Sturrock Blue Rider Press $26, 304 pages, illustrated Roald Dahl’s penchant for the macabre in his adult short stories make them ...

When writing to his mother, Roald Dahl at times played with the truth. He emphasized humor and minimized traumas, such as the real reason his best friend was thrown out of school and the extent of his ...

British author Roald Dahl was one of the most beloved storytellers of the 20th century. Known for his whimsical and ...

‘How much are the monkeys at Harrods?” a 10-year-old Roald Dahl inquired in a letter to his mother, sent from boarding school in 1927. “It would be rather nice to have one.” Between 1925 and 1965, ...

Sophie Dahl’s mother has been charged with larceny. Tessa Dahl - whose father was famous author Roald Dahl and whose mother was Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal - was arrested in the United States ...

Roald Dahl, the British children’s-book author behind such inventions as an auntie-squashing peach and the mercurial chocolatier Willy Wonka, would have turned a hundred today. Among his thirty-odd ...

The Twits, an animated comedy film inspired by Roald Dahl's 1980 children's novel of the same name, is now available on Netflix. The star-studded voice cast includes big names such as Margo Martindale ...

Roald Dahl, author of such loved children’s books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, and James and the Giant Peach, among many others, would have turned 100 years old on September 13.

10:53, Fri, Jun 3, 2016 Updated: 11:01, Fri, Jun 3, 2016 Receiving a text that says “Thank u 4 the present” is as much as most children write. Which makes the collected letters of author Roald Dahl, ...

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...