It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

A new biography of Jean Rhys, the Dominican-born author of Wide Sargasso Sea, pays close attention to her origins – but stops short of examining the colonial relations that are central to her story.

There is a two million square mile sea with no land borders that is surrounded by just one ocean. The Sargasso Sea is a ...

Yes, this informed her masterpiece “Wide Sargasso Sea” in the most literal sense: She knew the people, the land, the social hierarchies, the tangled racial and social politics. But she also ...

A new biography of Jean Rhys, the Dominican-born author of Wide Sargasso Sea, pays close attention to her origins – but stops short of examining the colonial relations that are central to her story.

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre. A weed mass this small may shelter thousands of ...

Forget the seaside, there’s one body of water on Earth that doesn’t touch a single coastline. The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso Sea and it’s characterised by its ...

Jane Eyre’s 'madwoman in the attic', given a voice at last in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. The panel of The Novels That Shaped Our World have chosen these novels on the theme of Class and ...

Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction ...

From the blisteringly contemporary to the classic, the lighthearted to the weighty, here are our favorite short, one-sitting ...