P erhaps, in the squeamish spirit of the times, the Royal Court Theatre in London should have put on two versions of “Giant”, ...

Semite. He admitted as much in various public utterances while at the height of his fame. Some of the “evidence” he gave for ...

Best-selling children’s author and Second World War fighter pilot Roald Dahl is the latest historical figure to be put in the dock of public opinion and held to account for historical racial slurs.

Roald Dahl is one of our absolute favourite authors; from The BFG, to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to Matilda, he brought us a plethora of bold and brilliant literary heroes during his ...

On his birth anniversary today, we will be exploring the colossal legacy left behind by writer Roald Dahl through a few of his adult short stories ...

Through British writer Roald Dahl’s many worlds, we encounter peculiar characters and dreamt-up words. The Dahl vocabulary is so vast that today there is an Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary brimming with ...

In the August 1983 issue of Literary Review, a British journal, the beloved children’s author Roald Dahl reviewed an eyewitness account of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In a strident ...

PATRICK MARMION: Best-selling children's author and Second World War fighter pilot Roald Dahl is the latest historical figure to be put in the dock of public opinion and held to account for ...

Publishing in general has become far more wary, a world where ‘sensitivity readers’ have re-edited Roald Dahl and books can ...

Yet that’s exactly what’s about to happen at the Royal Court, where John Lithgow plays Roald Dahl in Giant, written by Mark Rosenblatt and directed by Nicholas Hytner. In the summer of 1983 I ...

One of history’s most famous authors comes with a huge dollop of fun. Here’s the history behind Roald Dahl Day, plus how best ...

Roald Dahl was a cankered giant of children’s literature, casting a dark shadow over the pastel-tinted landscapes of a usually benign genre. Famously, he didn’t play nicely. But even so ...