The post-apocalyptic dark comedy returns, with added Macaulay Culkin, while a new book reveals what Lord of the Flies could have been called. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guar ...

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look ...

William Golding, the writer, has been a subject for study: reviews and critical essays, a bibliography and more than 100 books about the books. William Golding, the man, has been the subject of none.

It’s been a very long two weeks. By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens Rereading William Golding’s classic, Lois Lowry finds herself despairing that circumstances led the children to such a hell. By Lois ...

The future Nobel winner’s near 40-year correspondence with the editor Charles Monteith is a fascinating record of an artistic ...

William Golding's 1954 novel "The Lord of the Flies" strands a group of young boys on an island. There, they must fend for themselves, but in the absence of rules and ethics, they devolve into ...

Novelist William Golding discussed writing style in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room last night and concluded that "if a man has style, it's because he has one thing or nothing to say. If a man ...

Courtesy of David Buchan/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images Renowned British novelist William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is to be adapted for television for the first time by Eleven and ...

A guest post from Slate intern Kim Gittleson: Should what we learn about an author’s personal life change the way we view his or her work? That’s the eternal question that’s sprung up again in the ...

ABOUT the last writer in the world it would ever occur to me to read is William Golding, so before I start this little essay I want to make it very clear indeed precisely where I stand. Many years ago ...