On 18 July 1898, the French novelist, journalist and playwright Émile Zola (1840-1902) was preparing to flee his home in Paris. As the most famous defender of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Franco-Jewish ...

Forced into exile after getting caught up in a high-profile trial, the great French novelist spent Christmas 1898 in hiding in a south London suburb On Christmas Day 1898, France’s most famous writer, ...

Warners’ most ambitious film production of many months, “The Life of Emile Zola,” is a vibrant, tense and emotional story about the man who fought a nation with his pen and successfully championed the ...

Thanks be to Warner Brothers for making “The Life of Emile Zola” with such loving care that it emerges on the screen of the Hollywood Theatre as the most distinguished and most important contribution ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Rosen is best known as a writer of children’s fiction, but his latest book is a study of a little-documented ...

Michael Rosen’s account of Zola’s year of exile sheds light on the great author’s public heroism and personal failings. By Adam Kirsch No one thinks of themselves as being against truth and justice, ...

France opens world’s first museum dedicated to Dreyfus affair Exhibition part of center dedicated to Emile Zola, who famously defended the wrongfully accused Jewish captain over a century ago, in a ...

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Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Emile Zola published his famous 4,500-word essay, “J’Accuse ...

History fated Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus to forever be footnotes in each other’s stories. Dreyfus, a military officer wrongly convicted of treason, sparked an antisemitism scandal that split French ...