By Athanasios Dimakis The first version of Willa Cather’s 1920 short story “Paul’s Case” was published as “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” in McClure’s…
anna19/11/2022
By Bob Davidson Edmund Goulding’s Grand Hotel (1932) is a key hotel film for the way in which it deftly treats back and front-of-house while…
anna20/09/2022
By Anna Despotopoulou Harriet Monroe (1860-1936)—poet, critic, editor and founder of the important Poetry magazine, which contributed significantly to the development of early twentieth-century American…
anna05/09/2022
By Manolis Arkolakis The present blogpost strays away from literary representations of the hotel space and briefly looks at the interwar Grande Bretagne of Kalamata,…
anna17/08/2022
By James Gifford The connection between George Orwell and Henry Miller has been elusive, especially as scholars of modernism and modernity leaned on Orwell’s Inside…
anna18/07/2022
By Athanasios Dimakis Lawrence Durrell’s travelogue Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957) offers a vague sense of the impending calamity that follows the author’s three-year stay…
anna15/06/2022
By Anna-Leena Toivanen As a literary space, the hotel tends to be associated with Western literary traditions, where it often represents the “restless modern mind”…
anna04/05/2022
By Athanasios Dimakis Lillian Hellman (1905-84), the American playwright and author, visited Moscow in 1944. Her stay is recorded in her diary, which was published…
anna05/04/2022
By James Gifford In 2010 I made a chilly October trip to London and stayed at the grand old Hotel Russell, No. 1 Russell Square,…
anna17/03/2022
