May 25, 2013
Would evolutionary theory be any different if Charles Darwin had met a watery demise while aboard the HMS Beagle, author asks. Read Article Book review: Darwin scholar Peter Bowler's intellectually playful look at 'what if'.
May 25, 2013
Some of the best prose in Chloe Aridjis’ second novel, set in the National Gallery in London, describes the attack on Velazquez’s Rokeby Venus by the knife-wielding Mary Richardson to protest the imprisonment of a fellow suffragette, Anna Aslanyan writes Read Article Book review: Asunder by Chloe Aridjis hinges on real-life 1914 defacement of a painting of Venus in London's National Gallery
May 25, 2013
Book by Bahgat Elnadi and Adel Rifaat, two French-Egyptian authors, helps us understand the Quran on a deeper level Read Article Book review: this look at the historical origins of the Quran is worth a read
May 25, 2013
Dante's writing is enjoying renewed interest, fuelled in part by Dan Brown's latest novel and Clive James's translation of The Divine Comedy, Steve Donoghue writes
Read Article Book review: Clive James's translation of Dante without annotations is earnest but confusing
May 18, 2013
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns deserved to be international best-sellers, but Hosseini's new novel, And the Mountains Echoed, shows him progressing as a writer Read Article Khaled Hosseini's new novel captures the Afghan experience at home and abroad
May 16, 2013
The two writers address a bracing range of topics, although the suspicion lingers that they had one eye on publication all along. Read Article Back and forth: the revealing correspondence between Paul Auster and JM Coetzee
May 16, 2013
The Iron Lady's official biographer speaks exclusively to The National as his first volume of her life is published. Read Article Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher's 'loveable' side
May 16, 2013
The director general of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research wonders where the digital revolutions will take us. Read Article Outlining the future in an age of transformation
May 16, 2013
Warrier's new novel is a delicate, assured depiction of the quest for meaning and morality, epitomised by the last hangman of India. Read Article Shashi Warrier creates a character at the end of his rope
May 11, 2013
The woman of the tile, a 'wounded and bereft animal', has her life transformed through her jealous involvement with an immigrant family in contemporary America. Read Article The Woman Upstairs: Claire Messud returns with a ferocious new work
