Mar 12, 2011
British author Tony Parsons shares his tricks of the trade at the literature festival in Dubai Read Article Writing a bestseller sorts man from boy
Mar 15, 2011
Float through any social event with M magazine's fast facts. This week we look at the imposing and authoritative Oxford English Dictionary as it lurches toward a third edition. Read Article Instant Expert: the massive task of keeping up with English
Mar 16, 2011
Readers respond to The National's coverage and issues of the day. Read Article Japan should acknowledge scope of disaster
Mar 30, 2011
Readers respond with letters about the Pakistani-Indian cricket match, the direction for UAE telecoms and the novel Moby Dick Read Article A reader comments on Israeli incursions onto Palestinian land
Apr 22, 2011
In part-reportage, part-dramatisation style, the former ABC News producer Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi and her battle to provide a subsistence for her family during the difficult years of the Taliban occupation. Read Article The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: A stitch not quite in time
Apr 22, 2011
The author's discovery of a photo of his mother at age 13 begins the heartbreaking story of her first marriage, as a child, and the daughter she gave up as a condition of her freedom. Read Article The Good Daughter: Incomplete denial of a former life in Iran
Apr 22, 2011
Equal parts travel book and love note to the Russian novel, this odd debut wins the reader over with erudition, charm and amusing insights into the world of literary academics. Read Article The Possessed: A defense of academia as a creative force
Apr 22, 2011
The fifth novel by the late Sandor Marai to be translated into English in the past decade confirms his status as one of the great authors of the last century. Read Article Portraits of a Marriage: One man, two wives, nine perspectives
Apr 25, 2011
In 1990, the anti-Qaddafi campaigner Jaballa Matar was kidnapped by Egyptian secret police and handed over to Libya, where he remains in prison. His son, the author Hisham Matar, has written about his search for the truth. Read Article Libyan author Hisham Matar's search for his kidnapped father
Apr 26, 2011
Float through any social event with M's fast facts. This week Rick Arthur looks inside A Tale of Two Cities, first published as a serial in a literary magazine on this day in 1859. Read Article Instant Expert: A Tale of Two Cities
