Gabriel García Márquez

The week in TV: Strike: The Ink Black Heart; Asia; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Dalgliesh – review

A modern-day Bogie and Bacall return for a politics-packed online mystery; what David Attenborough really teaches us; a magic realism epic that’s not for the faint-hearted; and the detective drama that beats Morse

Barbara Ellen

22, Dec, 2024 @9:30 AM

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Colombians celebrate Netflix TV series of the country’s ’national poem’

Considered impossible to film – by even Gabriel García Márquez himself – the series brings the mythical Macondo to life

Luke Taylor in Santa Marta

20, Dec, 2024 @10:30 AM

One Hundred Years of Solitude review – Gabriel García Márquez’s classic makes for startling TV beauty

This 16-part series does justice to Gabriel García Márquez’s magical-realist masterwork – although the novel’s sexual politics have aged badly

Jack Seale

11, Dec, 2024 @7:00 AM

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of love

On his third attempt, the author finally sets down a story that has haunted him for decades

AK Blakemore

27, Nov, 2024 @7:30 AM

Netflix adapts Pedro Páramo, the great Mexican novel that inspired Márquez

New film of Juan Rulfo’s novel, revered as founding text of magic realism, is first film adaptation in half a century

Thomas Graham in Mexico City

05, Nov, 2024 @10:30 AM

A recipe for magical realism: Gabriel García Márquez and a video game about potatoes

The designer of Sopa: The Tale of the Stolen Potato explains how his Colombian background informs the forthcoming game

Lewis Packwood

16, Jul, 2024 @11:00 AM

Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism

Luke Taylor in Aracataca, Colombia

18, May, 2024 @3:00 PM

Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists

Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction

Madeleine Feeny

12, Apr, 2024 @3:07 PM

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez review – his abandoned last novel

Posthumously published against the Latin American Nobel laureate’s wishes, this brisk and frisky tale of extramarital sex is better than he feared

Anthony Cummins

10, Mar, 2024 @5:30 AM

‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will

The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed

Alex Clark

08, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez review – a ‘lost’ last novel

This slight work by the Latin American master explores sex, betrayal and damaging secrets through the story of a woman’s one-night stands

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

06, Mar, 2024 @7:30 AM

Sorry, Victoria’s Secret, your ‘woke’ rebrand failed because it was just performative pants | Barbara Ellen

The lingerie brand’s feminist makeover was not only hilarious but so late to the party and hypocritical that no one bought it