Death comes for us all, but if you’re a character in a Muriel Spark novel, it may come faster than you think. In Not to ...

Muriel Spark’s publishers have this year accorded her the privilege usually reserved for major writers: they have reissued her minor work, to make all available. Perilous though it be, a writer wants ...

Obliged to summarize in one sentence Muriel Spark’s 1973 novel The Hothouse by the East River, a hapless library cataloguer wrote, “A group of people struggles to regain control over their lives as ...

Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident someone picks up one of these pens … I throw that pen out the window. I ...

Coming just four years after the cloth edition of Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories, which introduced readers to 10 new Spark tales, this collection tacks ...

‘Write about what you know” is advice sometimes given to writers. Muriel Spark, who knew about being a young woman, and about post-war Britain, heeded that instruction at age 45 when she wrote The ...

But Frances Wilson isn’t buying it. In her research for Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, the biographer found no news accounts of the murder-suicide, nor any evidence of McEwen’s birth, ...

Spark’s first full-length book, Child of Light, reinterpreted the life of Mary Shelley by means of a novel two-part structure: half “Recollection” and half criticism. She went on to write several ...

An open international competition is seeking an artist for a new £100,000 memorial to Dame Muriel Spark in Edinburgh’s East ...

The following is an interview held by Five Books for Catholics with Christopher J. Scalia about Muriel Spark’s life and work. Muriel Spark’s life was as eccentric and messy as any character from her ...

Because we could all use a laugh. By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Cari Vander Yacht Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them to curl up with a book. Maggie ...