International E. M. Forster Society
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The promotion of international research, events and publications on E. M. Forster and his works. Contact: internationalemforstersociety@gmail.com Website: http://society.emforster.de/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@I.E.M.F.S./streams
Doug DeVita's adaptation will be published soon: www.broadwayworld.com/article/A-PA...
A PASSAGE TO INDIA Stage Adaptation Will Be Published
Doug DeVita's new stage adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel will be celebrated with a talkback, live podcast recording, and book signing at The Drama Book Shop in New York.
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For India's 79th year of independence, Treya Sinha reviews Forster's final novel: www.firstpost.com/lifestyle/ge...
Katherine Rundell evaluates AI in the classroom... 'To write is not just to transcribe the mind’s ideas; it’s a form of transformation, turning a nascent, half-built thought into something sturdier, tougher, sharper. [As] E. M Forster wrote: “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”'
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
theguardian.com
The first review of my last book Forster Bibliographies is now published - pjes.edu.pl/articles/rev... - you can read it and (if you have not read the book yet) see if you agree. Just use the link at the end - the book is free Open Access. Or write your own review and let me know!
Review: Krzysztof Fordoński, 2025. E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations – PJES
Polish Journal of English Studies is a peer-reviewed journal for scholars working in the literature and culture in English, as well as theoretical and applied linguistics.
pjes.edu.pl
Sue Gaisford finds Colin Thubron channeling E. M. Forster in his ninth and latest novel, 'Passage': www.ft.com/content/7369...
Passage by Colin Thubron — a mesmerising exploration of marriage and the mind
Set in the Valley of the Kings, this haunting novel shows the writer at the summit of his powers
ft.com
Re-reading EM Forster's 'The Life to Come': stories of love and desire mostly unpublished in his lifetime, released only after his death. They have an honesty his novels could only gesture towards. Essential for anyone who admires Forster: great writer, great humanist.
Forster features as part of the upcoming Bloomsbury Festival 2026: london-post.co.uk/bloomsbury-f...
Bloomsbury Festival Announces over 150 events in Programme for 20th Anniversary Year - London Post
Marking its 20th year, Bloomsbury Festival is returning with a month-long celebration of local artists and organisations with over 150 events spanning theatre, music, exhibitions, literature and scien...
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A new stage adaptation of 'A Passage to India' brings the novel's queer subtext to the fore: artsindependent.com/2026/07/14/u...
Unearthing the Unspoken: How Doug DeVita’s ‘A Passage to India’ Drags Forster’s Queer Subtext Out of the Shadows
When E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India was published in 1924, it was hailed as a masterful, searing critique of the British Raj and the psychological chasm left by colonialism. Yet, beneath the rig…
artsindependent.com
More on 'The Machine Stops' and how it accurately predicted the social isolation that is often tied to technological improvement: qz.com/fiction-that...
20 works of fiction that predicted the future accurately
From surveillance states to social media addiction to engineered pandemics — the writers who got there first, what they saw that others didn't, and how close the resemblance has become
qz.com
Jonathan Bate explores Forster's short "sequel" 'View Without A Room' in relation to 'Maurice' and other unpublished works:
More thoughts on E. M. Forster
On closeted silence and an unwritten sequel
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A BBC radio dramatisation of a little-known experience from Forster's life...
lawrence jones@lawrentian.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis excellent 2009 radio drama reconstructs the impact on EM Forster of the tragic death of Ernest Mertz in 1909. Forster met Mertz just once over dinner, but that same evening Mertz returned alone to his flat & committed suicide. The drama is based on real events. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ea...
94 years ago E. M. Forster arrived at Cracow where he saw a game of chess with live pieces played at the Royal Castle of Wawel which he described in his essay "Chess at Cracow".
The latest version of Forster and Benjamin Britten's opera gets a round-up of good reviews: www.newstatesman.com/culture/thea...
Billy Budd's epic universality
A collaboration between three geniuses of different forms, this is truly Britain's greatest opera
newstatesman.com
E. M. Forster's old school opens up sixth form to female students: www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...
Leading Kent boys' school to teach girls at Sixth Form for fits time in history
The move will end a centuries' old tradition of being an all boys' establishment
kentlive.news
We missed the anniversary of Forster's death back on the 7th June - but someone else returned a long-lost piece of Forster-related ephemera just in time for it...
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe longest journey: EM Forster’s stolen nameplate comes home to King’s after 56 years Donna Ferguson uncovers how the culprit, who unscrewed the doorplate to the celebrated author’s rooms at Cambridge University, returns stolen item at college reunion https://bit.ly/4fr6W6I
Peter Bradshaw describes the first cinematic adaptation of Woolf's second novel as something more like "E. M. Forster's [version of] 'Night and Day'"... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars
Woolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast
theguardian.com
@johnattridge.bsky.social discuses character and culture in 'Howards End' in Volume 59 of NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction - read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
Typical Roundness: Fictional Character and the Culture Concept in Howards End | Novel | Duke University Press
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Rowan Davies reflects on the Forsterian concept of class in the transition from novel to big screen:
The Metropolitan@themetropolitan.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis week we’re considering the odd little Edwardian revival in ‘80s Britain, courtesy of the Merchant Ivory adaptations of E. M. Forster novels. www.themetropolitan.uk/p/west-end-g...
Zadie Smith revisits Forster's 'Art for Art's Sake' in a lecture on making art in times of political crisis: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Art for Our Sakes | Zadie Smith
I wasn’t going to come today. Partly because the act of coming here—to America, as a non-American—is now a fraught, stressful, and even dangerous
nybooks.com
'Howards End' sits at #60 on The Guardian's new 100 Best Novels of all time: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
The 100 best novels of all time
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
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E. M. Forster letters among several to be made publicly available in an upcoming digital archive, thanks to a partnership between Dorking Museum and @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
EM Forster letters in new Dorking World War Two refugee archive
Letters from EM Forster are among those released in an archive about Dorking's work with refugees.
bbc.co.uk
Dimitra Karydi discusses 'the dissolution of social barriers' in the hotel in 'Where Angels Fear to Tread': hotems.enl.uoa.gr/the-dissolut...
The Dissolution of Social Barriers in the Hotel of E.M. Forster’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread” – Hotems Project
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As usual we publish book reviews as preprints. Anna Kwiatkowska, from the University of Warmia and Mazury, reviewed for us the book "E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations" by Krzysztof Fordoński pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
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Forster's Adela Quested is the springboard for a collection of short stories by Indian author Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik: odisha.plus/2026/04/book...
Book Review: In Search of Ms Adela Quested & Other Stories
Rabindra Kumar Nayak reviews Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik’s collection, exploring the intersection of Advaita Vedanta, postcolonialism, and the metaphysical self.
odisha.plus
Born #OTD in 1863, Constantine P. Cavafy was admired and promoted by Forster both before and after his death. Today, his work is on the rise... www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
The writer Constantine Cavafy was largely unpublished in his lifetime, but was revered by artists. His archive and Alexandrian home are now on show for the first time
theguardian.com
Lawrence Jones dissects Forster's early 1920s letters to Hogarth Press:
lawrence jones@lawrentian.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor my recent Visiting Fellowship at the Univ of Reading, I researched E. M. Forster’s publishing activities in the US btwn 1923-25 by investigating his correspondence with the Woolfs' Hogarth Press. I wrote this blog post about what I discovered. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
Girish Shukla details the relationship between Tukoji Rao III and E. M. Forster in India, 1921: www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/pe...
Tukoji Rao III of Dewas Senior: The Maharaja Who Hired E.M. Forster as His Personal Secretary
E.M. Forster worked for an Indian Maharaja at 300 rupees a month. The story behind it is extraordinary., People, Times Now
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In this month's TMR from @modernistudies.bsky.social, Lily Martin at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social explores authentic panoramas in 'A Room with a View': modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/c...
Sophie Barling dives deeper into the source of the photographs procured by Lucy Honeychurch in 'A Room with a View': apollo-magazine.com/alinari-arch...
View-finding in Italy
Established in 1852 by three brothers, the Alinari firm produced many of the oldest photographs of Italy. Sophie Barling visits its vast archive in Florence
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