‘Night Train’ by Martin Amis

Who says genre doesn’t have a place in literature?

‘Free Fall,’ by William Golding

Golding was an amazing writer whose talents stretch much further than…

‘The Ballad of Peckham Rye’ by Muriel Spark

Spark’s early novella is a mystic, comic masterpiece that…

‘Martian Time-Slip’ by Philip K. Dick

Dick’s great pulp novel of Martian settlement deserves a second…

‘Liza of Lambeth’ by W. Somerset Maugham

First novels can be an enlightening experience for writers…

‘On A Chinese Screen’, by W. Somerset Maugham

Maugham’s travels around China in 1919 are here related…

Vikings Versus Taliban

A new Afghan War memoir gives a Danish perspective on combat and nation…

Authenticity in fiction: My problem(s) with Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s ‘Hotel Silence.’

Immigration: The Unspoken Toll on Families 

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

‘The Magic of Reality’ by Richard Dawkins

Dawkins makes a successful return to popular science…