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 ...

Four hundred years after it was first published, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is still commonly hailed as one of the finest novels ever written. Now the adventures of the feeble-brained hidalgo ...

ARGAMASILLA DE ALBA, Spain (Reuters) - When he wrote "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes did not give away the name of the birthplace of the eponymous middle-aged gentleman obsessed with heroically ...

Was Don Quixote’s impossible dream a Yiddisher one? The French author Dominique Aubier, whose study “Don Quixote: Prophet of Israel” has just been reprinted, apparently thinks so. Aubier’s book, which ...

Terry Gilliam has tried to make a movie based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote for almost thirty years. There have been fits and starts, a production so cursed it was retold in an acclaimed ...

Although Don Quixote wasn’t the first great novel (that honor belongs to the Tale of Genji, written by an 11th-century lady-in-waiting at the Japanese court), it was the first to do something ...

Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we’ll give one to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you to support Vox’s journalism and ...

Gilliam's famously troubled project is finally finished and closing out the Cannes Film Festival. It's far from perfect, but it might be his most personal movie. At this point, the very existence of ...

Some films are famous for how disastrous they were in the making. Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, John Frankenheimer and Richard Stanley’s The Island of Dr. Moreau ...

Jules Massenet’s opera premiered in 1910 in Monte Carlo. It’s not a straight retelling of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”; Massenet was inspired by a French play by Jacques Le Lorrain. While Massenet wrote ...