Doris Lessing, winner of the David Cohen British Literature Lifetime Award, discusses her life and career with Mark Lawson in this Front Row special from 2001.

Rereading Borges after many years of reading many great writers, what strikes me is how truly singular his work was. To me, he’s incredibly inspiring. It contains so many ideas and so many different ...

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments. By Helen T.

Some people mellow with age; Doris Lessing isn't one of them. Whether this is good or bad or neither or both is up to each reader. But there is no doubt that an acerbic, indeed caustic sense of ...