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 ...

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 ...

THE GO-AWAY BIRD (215 pp.)—Muriel Spark—Lipplncoff ($3.75). Sooner or later, readers of Muriel Spark’s fiction come to understand that they have been hornswoggled in the very nicest way. The tactics ...

MURIEL SPARK died April 13 in Tuscany, her home for the last 30 years. The Scottish novelist lived to the ripe old age of 88. But she had been thinking about death for years. It was the subject of one ...

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark collects eight chilling tales by the author of Memento Mori. Notable selections include ""The Hanging Judge"" and ""The Portobello Road."" ...

PEOPLE — novelists even — have been heard to say of Muriel Spark that she is gifted and elegant, but a fantasist, a trifler. This at any rate allows one to see why the old topic of the death of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...