Josh O’Connor, as Lawrence “Larry” Durrell in MASTERPIECE’s The Durrells in Corfu.

This article is taken from the August-September 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Poor Lawrence Durrell. A ...

The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell's celebrated tetralogy from the 1950s, was defined by its author as "an investigation of modern love", but has often been regarded by its readers more as an ...

The truth about Corfu’s eccentric expat family was much darker than the comic myth – but do we need another biography of the family? When My Family and Other Animals was published in 1956 it was as if ...

Justine is het eerste deel van het Alexandrië Kwartet van Lawrence Durrell dat in 1957 verscheen. Waarom zaten we eigenlijk te wachten op de eerste Nederlandse vertaling? Durrell maakt het de lezer ...

In his travelogues, Durrell carries forward innovations made earlier in the century by British expatriates such as D. H. Lawrence, Norman Douglas, and Robert Byron, and he remains unmatched among ...

Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet series, supposedly, is one of these. Readers come to it young when its many excesses can be charitably forgiven, and would rather consign it to memory than ...

Vydání Alexandrijského kvartetu se ve své době (1957–1960) stalo literární událostí a Lawrenci Durrellovi přineslo celosvětový ohlas i zástupy fanoušků. Jeho velkolepá freska z Alexandrie v Egyptě v ...

The time has come to say farewell! Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor and more discuss their emotional final days on set and what ...

Ah, the Wonder of My Body; The Wandering of My Mind: Classicism and Lawrence Durrell's Literary Tradition Ah, the Wonder of My Body; The Wandering of My Mind: Classicism and Lawrence Durrell's ...

D'une enfance passée aux Indes, naît une déchirure qui fera de lui un écrivain de l'errance marqué par la figure du labyrinthe. Sa rencontre déterminante avec Henry Miller, ses séjours en Grèce, en ...