This vibrant ecosystem, which has evolved considerably from an expansive collection of food stalls centuries ago, is at the heart of Émile Zola’s novel ... Paris, the author’s hope doesn ...

Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant ... the MP Samuel Smith stood up in Parliament on 8 May 1888 to declare of Zola’s books: ‘Nothing more diabolical had ever been written ...

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath. John Self is a book ...

On this day in 1898, J’Accuse…!” is published in the newspaper L’Aurore. Written by Émile Zola in response to the events of the Dreyfus affair, Zola addressed the president of France ...