"It's crazy. It's broken. It doesn't make any sense," he said of the beloved ballet's plot. So he wrote a novel to fix it When Wicked author Gregory Maguire first saw The Nutcracker, he thought the ...

Kruso. By Lutz Seiler. Translated by Tess Lewis. Scribe; 462 pages; £16.99. WITH its thin body and chunky head (“the seahorse with the sledgehammer muzzle”), the German island of Hiddensee faces ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... William Morrow "Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker" If you have a child who dreams of dancing, you’ve seen “The Nutcracker” enough times to ...

Author Gregory Maguire made his name rewriting fairy tales. Now, he's taken on The Nutcracker — a beloved holiday classic, yes, but one that... In 'Hiddensee,' Gregory Maguire Gets Under The Shell Of ...

If you have a child who dreams of dancing, you’ve seen “The Nutcracker” enough times to know that you can’t leave until Clara finally wakes up — and you do, too. During the years when my younger ...

Modest, gentle and universal, these understated poems are a small masterclass in the art of synthesis Painter, retired civil servant and the eldest child of Lucian, Annie Freud launched her poetry ...

IN the 1920s, when Berlin roared with decadence, revolution and cabaret, the quiet, lush resort island of Hiddensee off the German Baltic coast drew fame as a kind of sun-drenched bohemian retreat, ...

At the start of 2011, we moved to live in the Villa Massimo, which hosts German writers in Rome, for just under a year. All I wanted to do was write. At last there would be time enough for that, a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. German seaside resorts come in different shapes and sizes. But there are common ingredients: smart seafront hotels, a ...