Jul 13, 2011
This week Rick Arthur looks at the life and times of the American author Ernest Hemingway, who was born on July 21, 1899. Read Article The instant expert: Ernest Hemingway
Jun 29, 2011
Nawal El Saadawi is a feminist author, activist, doctor and psychiatrist. She has written almost 50 works of fiction and non-fiction and she shares her wisdom with us. Read Article Life lessons: Nawal El Saadawi
Jun 22, 2011
The life and times of the English author and journalist George Orwell. Read Article The Instant Expert: George Orwell
Jun 10, 2011
António Lobo Antunes examines Portugal's colonial war with Angola as a chronicle of bourgeois exhaustion. Read Article The Land at the End of the World: the exhaustion of colonial Portugal
Jun 03, 2011
Set in a Balkan country coming out of a civil war, the novel is a strange tale that lingers long after the final chapter. Read Article The Tiger's Wife: A life haunted by folklore
Jun 03, 2011
Less than 50 pages long, László Krasznahorkai's pamphlet-like, multimedia collaboration with the German painter Max Neumann is one of the most beautifully produced works of literature this year. Read Article Animalinside: The profound anguish of a silent pack member
May 27, 2011
Dedicated to "everyone who would like to be someone else", the latest offering by the Montreal author Dany Laferrière is an older form of novel, a funny yet sharp conversation about ideas and experience. Read Article I Am a Japanese Writer: Dany Laferrière's Gaijin calypso
May 27, 2011
Natasha Solomons's Europe is on the eve of war and Elise Landau, an Austrian socialite, is sent to England as a housemaid. Read Article The Novel in the Viola: Wartime romance, unconventionally told
May 27, 2011
China Miéville's novel Embassytown is about a human outpost set up on a remote planet to trade with the powerful and mysterious "Hosts". Read Article Embassytown: Fable of colonialism
May 23, 2011
Blind students are challenged to read over the summer, then give reports on the material. Read Article Braille contest spreads its wings from UAE to across the Gulf
