Laurie Sucher

The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen. This film...

RPJ was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in earlier 1979, a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1983, and a CBE in 1998. She attracted less critical attention in...

In the novel's present tense, Natasha goes to work for Leo at the Academy (in a gothic-style mansion in the Hudson River Valley) at a time when her foster-brother Mark has established on the...

The narrator, Harriet Wishwell (whose name sounds like something out of Restoration comedy), has a dominant twin brother, Michael, who is gay; Laurie Sucher sees this as a culmination in a sequence of Jhabvala heroines...

Critic Laurie Sucher remarks that many of these stories rework the Gothic theme, that is, the sexualisation of villainy and victimisation. The experience in the title piece makes up a painful sequence. Another unnamed...

Heat and Dust presents a double plot: one set in the present, told in first-person narrative and in journals, and one set in 1923 (the April of which year saw an outbreak of Muslim-Hindu violence...

RPJ declined, however, to write the screenplay for the next Merchant-Ivory film, released the following year, from Forster 's homosexual novel Maurice, unpublished during his lifetime. Laurie Sucher says RPJ felt this novel to...