Emma Donoghue’s latest novel has many facets, all of them fascinating. “Frog Music” is a detailed slice of historical drama, set in the festering boomtown of San Francisco in 1876. Like her ...

In 1870s San Francisco, in the midst of a debilitating smallpox epidemic and a rancid heat wave, a cross-dressing, frog-hunting, bicycling itinerant singer named Jenny Bonnet is murdered. In Emma ...

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them,” wrote James Baldwin in “Notes of a Native Son.” Much of novelist Emma Donoghue’s literary career has involved the liberation of ...

While fact-checking Current contributor Leigh Baldwin’s review of Frog Music, I happened upon author Emma Donoghue’s blog post for The New Yorker titled Inspiration Information: “Frog Music.” While ...

Emma Donoghue's last novel, her best-selling Room (2010) brought readers fiercely, spellbindingly into the world of a captive small boy and his mother. With her latest, Frog Music, the brilliant ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Donoghue, the writer of both the novel and screenplay of Lenny Abrahamson’s Oscar-nominated Room, is teaming up with Alison Owen’s and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures to make a ...

Frog have shifted to a more tossed-off approach for the two albums they released this year: February’s 1,000 Variations and September’s The Count.

Last week, New York’s Frog announced new album The Count, which is named after a strange, supernatural character that began to appear in the New York metropolitan area in August ’25. It’s unclear how ...