International E. M. Forster Society

Just a few hours until our conference 'Forster Today' gets underway tomorrow in Nancy, France - have you arrived yet?

Our conference 'Forster Today' is this Friday in Nancy, France - who will be joining us?

‘The Inheritance,’ inspired by ‘Howards End,’ examines gay culture in wake of AIDS Themes of love, legacy, and friendship

Nearly seven years after it premiered on Broadway, Patrick Folliard reviews a new, condensed version of Matthew Lopez's 'The Inheritance' (inspired by 'Howards End'):

www.washingtonblade.com/2025/09/20/t...

Maurice - Editora Ercolano Os envios terão início a partir de 09/10/25.

Ercolano has published a new Portuguese edition of 'Maurice', translated by Antonion Farinaci:
ercolano.com.br/loja/produto...

'A Room with a View' has been turned into a musical! 🎵🎼

Check out recordings from the cast in Seattle here:
www.jeffreystock.net/arwav

A Room with a View - Broadview Press A Room with a View -

Another one of our members, Randi Saloman, has edited a new edition of 'A Room with a View' - due to be published by Broadview Press at the end of September!

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Кімната з видом | Оsnovy Publishing

You can preorder the first Ukrainian translation of an E. M. Forster's novel - Кімната з видом or A Room with a View will be available in December from the Kyiv based publishing house Osnovy! www.osnovypublishing.com/product-page... #emforster

Hospitable Heterotopias: Mediterranean Queer Eternity in E. M. Forster’s “Albergo Empedocle” The framing of the Mediterranean as a heterotopic place summoning a strange heterochrony in E. M. Forster’s short story “Albergo Empedocle” (1903) perpetuates the notion of a queer M...

Our member Athanasios Dimakis recently published the chapter "Hospitable Heterotopias: Mediterranean Queer Eternity in E. M. Foster's 'Albergo Empedocle" in the volume 'Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean':
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Our colleague from @emforstersociety.bsky.social Kaoru Urano has recently published a new Japanese translation of Howards End - take a look! www.kotensinyaku.jp/books/book407/

OTD in 1987, Merchant-Ivory's adaptation of 'Maurice premiered at the Venice Film Festival

10 Stories That Actually Nailed Our Future Tech - Listverse Discover 10 obscure sci-fi novels that predicted technologies we use today, from credit cards to smartphones, decades before they existed.

Did Forster accurately predict Zoom calls in 'The Machine Stops'? 🧐
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Only Connect - Front Porch Republic In 2024, I held my first Margarita Mile. I’ve done more since then. It’s simple. I invite a group of friends. Using sidewalk chalk, I mark a start line and some arrows on the sidewalk in front of my h...

Elizabeth Stice takes some life lessons from 'Howards End':
www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/09/only...

Top 5 David Lean Epic Movies, Ranked These are films by a filmmaker who is all about spectacle on one hand and intentional filmmaking on the other.

No Film School ranks 'A Passage to India' as David Lean's 5th best film:
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AUTUMN FESTIVAL of Norfolk - A Room with a View - Visit Norwich The AUTUMN FESTIVAL of Norfolk presents a sparkling new in-the-round production of E.M. Forster’s A Room With A View, following Lucy Honeychurch as she navigates love, society, and self-discovery.

From 27th October to 1st November, you can watch 'A Room with a View' on stage as part of the Autumn Festival of Norfolk

www.visitnorwich.co.uk/event/autumn...

YouTube video by Love Janis Christopher Isherwood talking about E.M. Forster

Christopher Isherwood was born OTD in 1904. Here he is discussing his long and close friendship with Forster, after Forster's death:

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‘Constantine Cavafy’ Review: A Poet’s Odyssey Within Cavafy’s poems present beguiling visions of Alexandria, Egypt, the poet’s home, off and on, of seven decades.

Forster first met Cavafy in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1916. He was one of the poet's early champions, believing that his poems 'reveal a beautiful and curious world [...] the world within'...

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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, who travelled with Forster to India, was born OTD in 1862.

Writing in his posthumous biography (published 1934), Forster described Dickinson as 'beloved, affectionate, unselfish, intelligent, witty, charming [and] inspiring'.

Maggie Smith's 5 iconic roles that prove she's a legend Maggie Smith, the revered actress, has blessed the stage and screen with her extraordinary talent for decades

Is there a better Charlotte Bartlett than Maggie Smith?
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THE MACHINE STOPS To Make Melbourne Premiere At Theatre Works This August Theatre Works will present the Melbourne premiere of The Machine Stops, a bold new stage adaptation by Briony Dunn based on the prophetic novella by E.M. Forster. Performances will run from 22–30 Augu...

'The Machine Stops' adapted for the Melbourne theatre scene:
www.broadwayworld.com/australia-me...

Is it time to start a campaign to feature Forster? 🧐

They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off - Pullman which used to carry British tourists to Folkestone to catch the boat to France and then Italy. #emforster

Is Maurice a Garden God? The Influence of Forrest Reid on E. M. Forster’s Representation of Male-Male Relations in Maurice The friendship between E. M. Forster and Forrest Reid has never been studied for an in-depth analysis of the impact and influence Reid and his work had on Forster’s fiction, particularly in honing ...

Our colleague Maaz Bin Bilal has just published a new paper entitle "Is Maurice a Garden God? The Influence of Forrest Reid on E. M. Forster’s Representation of Male-Male Relations in Maurice" in English Studies:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Youssef Movies 2149 The Aftermath Full Movie In English 2021 (Science Fiction)

You can now watch '2149: The Aftermath' (2015) for free on YouTube - a Canadian science-fiction film based on Forster's short story 'The Machine Stops'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S2k...

​Little-known novelist Forrest Reid was hailed the ‘most important man in Belfast’ by fellow writer E M Forster ​​The novelist and critic Forrest Reid was born at 20 Mount Charles, Belfast, on June 24 1875 into an Ulster-Scots and Presbyterian middle-class family and was the youngest of six surviving children.

Another Pride Month update 🏳️‍🌈

The novelist Forrest Reid (also a gay writer) was born 150 years ago yesterday - Forster championed his work and referred to him as 'the most important man in Belfast'

www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/...

10 trailblazing LGBTQIA+ authors who left an indelible mark on literary history As we celebrate Pride month, Tatler shines a light on LGBTQIA+ authors who helped shape the English literary canon

Another Pride Month feature - with Tatler listing Forster as a trailblazing LGBTQIA+ author 🏳️‍🌈

www.tatler.com/gallery/10-a...

Charleston — Queer Bloomsbury in London: Harry Daley and E. M. Forster Discover how Harry Daley, an openly gay police officer, revealed London’s queer working class subculture to E. M. Forster and Duncan Grant

Pride Month is the perfect chance to learn more about Forster's queer friendships - starting with Police Constable Harry Daley 🏳️‍🌈

www.charleston.org.uk/stories/quee...

The curious story of EM Forster and his flying fish of literature Had EM Forster seen a flying fish, he might have recognised how they inhabit two worlds.

E. M. Forster on literature and emotions:
www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

BBC & Working Title Developing ‘A Passage To India’ TV Series The BBC is making 'A Passage To India' drama series with Working Title, an adaptation of the EM Forster novel.

The BBC commission a five-part series of 'A Passage to India' - deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-...

Open Book - Damon Galgut, Kate Colquhoun, Judith Flanders, AL Kennedy, Julian Gough, Stella Duffy - BBC Sounds Man Booker-listed South African writer Damon Galgut on his latest novel Arctic Summer.

Damon Galgut, the author of 'Arctic Summer' (a novel on E. M. Forster), discusses his work in 2014 - now available on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

E. M. Forster: “The Novels of Virginia Woolf” E. M. Forster on “Jacob’s Room” and “Mrs. Dalloway”

From the archives: The Yale Review celebrates the centenary of 'Mrs Dalloway' by publishing Forster's 1926 review of Woolf's works.

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