The second in a series of posts in which we ask writers about the cultural influences on their work. I often draw on fact to spin my fiction. But in the case of “Frog Music,” which is based on an 1876 ...

Emma Donoghue does not equivocate about the sort of book “Frog Music” is supposed to be. It opens with the murder of Jenny Bonnet, shot through the window of a boarding house near a 19th-century San ...

Reading an Emma Donoghue book is like falling into a deep friendship with an unlikely stranger: a lady of the evening, a cross-dressing frogcatcher, an imprisoned child. The author’s empathy for ...

San Francisco in the summer of the 1876, between the Gold Rush and the smallpox epidemic, is the setting for Emma Donoghue's boisterous new novel, Frog Music. There's real frog music in these pages, ...

Emma Donoghue’s tales are always unexpected. “Room,” which became a phenomenal best seller, was narrated by a child held captive from birth in a soundproof cell. Her newest, “Frog Music,” is a ...

Emma Donoghue’s new novel “Frog Music” comes with about 30 pages of homework after it’s done: a dense author’s note about San Francisco in the 1870’s, when the book is set; comprehensive notes on the ...

Leah Greenblatt is the former critic at large for movies, books, music, and theater at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2023. Most of us click through news headlines and see disaster or ...