End of year review
I have never really understand why others have their annual reviews early in December. Don't they read any books between then and the end of the year? I certainly do.…
I have never really understand why others have their annual reviews early in December. Don't they read any books between then and the end of the year? I certainly do.…
The latest addition to my website is Marianne Fritz's Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse (The Weight of Things), the first novel by the Austrian writer Marianne Fritz to be translated into…
We spent the couple of days after Christmas in Amsterdam. As you can see at the left, much of our time was looking at works of art. This painting is,…
The latest addition to my website is Paola Capriolo's Il nocchiero (The Helmsman). This tells the story of a helmsman, Walter. The job consists of driving a barge from a…
The latest addition to my website is N. Scott Momaday's Ancient Child, another superb novel about Native American culture from Momaday. The story focuses on two quasi-outsiders. Grey is half…
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Лавр (Laurus), a superb Russian novel telling the story of a fifteenth century healer, mystic and quasi-saint. Arseny, as he is…
The latest addition to my website is Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud's القرصان (The Corsair), the first Qatari novel on my website. It essentially tells the story of the pirate Erhama bin Jaber,…
The first part of the title is what was used in the print edition of the Guardian in this article while the second part, as you will see, is what…
The latest addition to my website is Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time. This is the first in a series of reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays by well-known novelists. Winterson has…
The latest addition to my website is Cyprian Ekwensi's Beautiful Feathers. This tells the story of Wilson Iyari, a man who runs a successful pharmacy and is head of the…