IT is always good news to hear that new champions are coming forward to translate Don Quixote into English. It is a bold deed, well worthy a knight-errant of the pen ; and if many men make the attempt ...

May I return to the subject of “Don Quixote”? Many of you chimed in about Miguel de Cervantes’ 1615 novel after my column about reading it and loving it. This included a Pomona College literature ...

A MAN CALLED CERVANTES—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). In 50 words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: “A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, ...

The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance is turning 400. By some accounts, the first part of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s masterpiece, was available in Valladolid by Christmas Eve 1604, although ...

HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) —Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as “the World—that ...

Americans, according to the Gallup Poll, read fewer books in 2021 than at any point in the past 30 years. “Bestselling books have never been shorter,” an analysis by the site Wordsrated concluded in ...

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, published in the 17th century but often called the first modern novel, was about a dotty old guy who thought he was a hero and rode around Spain attacking windmills.

Early in his 14th novel, “Quichotte,” (Random House, 416 pp., ★★½ out of four stars), Salman Rushdie concedes that his story is a bit of a mess. Fentanyl, gun culture, mastodons and a portal to an ...

In Cervantes’s classic novel, a student tells the knight-errant Don Quixote, “The greater the fame of the writer, the more closely his books are scrutinized.” Such is the mixed blessing of fame for ...

Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of ...