In The Lonely Londoners, Roy Williams lifts the words from the pages of Sam Selvon’s seminal 1956 novel about the Windrush ...
The smattering of novels are largely by Palestinian American writers, among them Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Hala ...
Ronsdale Press $24.95 | 308pp. They were called premature anti-fascists . The men and women of the International Brigades who ...
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry It’s likely that you’ve never read a tragi-comic western picaresque novel. I don’t know how many exist, but whether or not you can conceive of what a book ...
Decades, centuries or even the entire history of the world – these films encompass vast stretches of time within a single feature.
Melodrama, myth, the epistolary novel, the picaresque: Morante plays with these genres and more. She’s a born storyteller. Her plot is deliciously dense, and there’s a sumptuousness to every ...
Meridian native, Snowden Wright, will discuss his latest book, “The Queen City Detective Agency,” on Feb. 1 when he appears ...
reasoning that the set of personal misfortunes she underwent are so awful in their arbitrariness that they belong to tragicomic picaresque, like one of her novels, or that the single-mindedness of her ...
Benji’s picaresque journey entrances and enrages ... might explain the formality of this adaption of the Sigrid Nunez novel What Are You Going Through. It is very much Tilda Swinton’s film ...
These novels typically feature richly detailed worlds, a compelling central romance and fantastical themes like magic, mythical creatures or epic adventures. Common themes include forbidden love ...
At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away.