International E. M. Forster Society

The Best of British Cinema: ‘Maurice’ (1987) James Ivory creates a queer cinema classic with his adaptation of EM Forster‘s novel

Reece Beckett considers Merchant-Ivory's adaptation of 'Maurice' within the context of queer cinema:
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Broadway actor directs powerful ‘Passage’ at ETSU - ETSU News ETSU’s 2026 Basler Chair Steve Maurice Jones directs “Passage,” a powerful exploration of power and perception, March 5-8 at the Martin Center.

The premiere of a new play inspired by Forster's 'A Passage to India' -
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Have you read 'Eliza in Chains'? 🧐

Book of the Day: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster — When romance challenges society’s rules Book of the Day: A Room with a View stands out as a work that rewards thoughtful reading, charming and witty on the surface, yet profound in its emotional insight and social observation.

More interest in 'A Room with a View' - the Economic Times picks Forster's novel as one of February's "Books of the Day":
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EM Forster: 'But for Masood, I might never have gone to India' It took EM Forster 11 years to write A Passage to India – what made his progress so slow? Damon Galgut explores the repression and unreciprocated love that influenced the author's most celebrated work

Read more on Forster, Masood and 'A Passage to India' in a 2014 article by Damon Galgut: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/a...

Syed Ross Masood was born OTD in 1889. Forster first met and fell in love with Masood in 1906, but the feelings were not reciprocated. The pair nevertheless remained friends, and Forster dedicated 'A Passage to India' (1924) to Masood and their "17 years of friendship" #LGBT+historymonth

The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

Salman Rushdie returns to the time he spent at Cambridge and his meetings with E. M. Forster in the short story 'Late', published in the collection 'The Eleventh Hour': www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Wokingham Literary Society takes a good look at the view A BOROUGH reading group will be taking an in-depth look at two novels this month at their next meeting.Wokingham Literary

Wokingham Literary Society pairs Forster's 'A Room with a View' with L. P. Hartley's 'The Go-Between'...

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E.M. Forster + Santa Croce | The Florentine "I’ve started to suspect 'A Room with a View' could be part of the problem of fetishizing Italy..."

Lauren Mouat considers Santa Croce through Forster's (and Lucy's) eyes:
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Humanists UK have put together education resources for primary school learners, including a profile on E. M. Forster (and his humanism):

Daniel Land Daniel Land “Pearl Dady” Pearl Daddy (single 01-09-2026) This song is “inspired by the love affair between E. M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl, as described in Wendy Moffat’s biography of Forster.” &…

The life of E. M. Forster can be a source of inspiration for all artists. This time it is a song inspired by Forster's love affair with Mohammed el-Adl. areconnoiter.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/d...

Read Forster's 1941 Rede lecture 'The Art of Virginia Woolf' here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Today is Virginia Woolf's birthday. On his close friend Woolf, Forster remarked that 'she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.'

« Propriety was re-established » : hétérotopie, loi et transgression dans « The Other Boat » d’E. M. Forster Cet article se propose d’étudier la nouvelle posthume d’E. M. Forster « The Other Boat » au prisme du concept foucaldien d’hétérotopie et d’interroger la manière dont l’espace du navire peut fonctionn...

A new year brings new publications! Our member Maxime Petit has published his article "‘Propriety was re-established’ : hétérotopie, loi et transgression dans ‘The Other Boat’ d’E. M. Forster" in Les Colloques, Fabula: www.fabula.org/colloques/do...

I.E.M.F.S. The YouTube channel of the International E. M. Forster Society. The place to share information about Forster and his works.

It is still E. M. Forster January so perhaps it is a good moment to discover the YouTube channel of @emforstersociety.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@I.E.M.F.S./...

The 100-year-old Greek poem that inspired a Leonard Cohen song A poem written in 1911 about the darkest days of the Roman general Marc Antony oddly laid the foundation for a 2001 Cohen ballad about a lost love.

Of Cavafy, Forster wrote 'Such a writer will never be popular [...] He has the strength (and of course the limitations) of the recluse, who, thought not afraid of the world, always stands at a slight angle to it'

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A treat for the new year - three bibliographies of scholarly publications discussing E. M. Forster!

Happy Birthday to E. M. Forster! 🎉🎈

How to survive the Machine age

Like many others this year, Jacob Howland takes a look at Forster's 'The Machine Stops' to make sense of the rapid rise of artificial intelligence:
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On Austen, Forster said 'She is my favourite author! [...and] part of the soil of England [...her novels] are so good that everything connected with the novelist and everything she wrote ought certainly to be published and annotated' #Austen250 #JaneAusten250

An opportunity to discuss connections between Forster and von Arnim? 🧐

Searching for community in queer Cambridge Juliette Berry speaks to queer students about their desire for a more established queer community at Cambridge

Some reflections on the evolution of Cambridge's queer community since Forster's day 🏳️‍🌈
www.varsity.co.uk/features/30805

A Room with a View is the greatest period drama ever made It may come as surprise to discover that A Room with a View, the celebrated Merchant-Ivory adaption of the E.M. Forster novel, is 40 this month. Yes, as hard as it is to believe, the film starring Hel...

Is it your favourite Forster adaptation?
www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-ro...

The FB page of the International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social has 492 followers at the moment. Can we make it 500 by #emforster 's birthday which we celebrate on January 1st? Have you joined and invited all your friends? www.facebook.com/IEMFS

Η Αλεξάνδρεια του Φόρστερ, του Ντάρελ και του Καβάφη - ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ Ο Αλεξανδρινός, οι δύο σπουδαίοι Βρετανοί, η μεταξύ τους αλληλεπίδραση και η εμβληματική «πόλις» των αρχών του 20ού αιώνα

Fascinating article about literary Alexandria in the first half of the 20th century - starting from our own E. M. Forster and his encounter with C. P. Cavafy:
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"The Machine Stops" (Opera) YouTube video by Dave Olive

'The Machine Stops', an opera composed by John Lake with the libretto written by Cecile Goding, which premiered in July 2022, is now available on YouTube:
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Why This Classic Novel About Class Still Defines the Divide Between Rich and Poor 'Howards End' still mirrors modern inequality, exposing how class and privilege define who thrives, who struggles, and who gets left behind in every generation., Books, Times Now

Girish Shukla explores the impact of 'Howards End' and its relevance in today's unequal world:
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Salman Rushdie’s Literary Inspirations The author of “The Eleventh Hour” looks back on a few works—by Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, Voltaire, and E. M. Forster—that have helped him craft his own.

Salman Rushdie counts Forster among his literary inspirations:
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...

Book Club - Maurice by EM Forster | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Sarah and Teddy discussion Maurice by EM Forster, a wonderful piece of queer literature.

'Maurice' as a Book Club podcast pick - described as 'a wonderful piece of queer literature':
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Then we celebrated the end of the day with a conference dinner on Place Stanislas! (3/3)