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 ...

The story of Zola’s intervention in the Dreyfus case and flight to London is a lively portrait of a disputatious age On 13 January 1898, the Parisian daily L’Aurore carried what quickly became one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Editor's Note: Blood, Sex and Money is a groundbreaking adaptation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga for BBC Radio 4. The first part 'Blood' is now available on ...

Born in Paris on April 2, 1840, Emile Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence, where his father, an Italian engineer, had been hired by the municipality to build its waterworks. François Zola died just as ...