Tag Archives: Literature and Fiction

Genuinely funny, and wonderfully irreverent, it will appeal to any reader, whether or not they are familiar with Shakespeare's Lear.

Two gripping, "literary" treatments of war come to the same conclusion about its place in the human condition.

Under torture, a young Lebanese man forced to write his life story has kaleidoscopic memories of a life affected by civil war.

"Conversations on Russian Literature" has all the elements of the great suspense stories of our age: two characters sitting in a park talking.

Offers readers the chance to try and understand what would drive a person seek a place to start their life over again.

It's not often that a book can be escapist fun and thought-provoking at the same time.

"I write a lot about racism and incest. I have this false hope that my books can eradicate these two issues."

The characters are intriguing, the action exciting, and the plot is full of unexpected twists and turns.

"Literature–real literature–reaches out rather than in and I can think of no better way of reaching out than with genre and spectacle."

"I hate creating characters simply in terms of their function, I like to know them as people."