Open City doesn’t have much in terms of plot. It centres on Julius, a Nigerian-German doctor in psychiatry, his walks across New York and for a brief...
Shai-Hulud, the sandworm of Arrakis, by John Schoenherr
In a world where resources are scarce and the Earth is reduced to dust, the human race must adapt...
By my sixteenth birthday I was somewhat of a connoisseur of medieval science fiction fantasy. I had read my way through major contemporary writers in the...
Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in West Sussex, England. After home schooling he entered Eton College in 1804, where he had books snatched from his hands...
Despite beginning his career in 1979, it was only the publication of Norwegian Wood in 1987 that propelled Haruki Murakami into national recognition, even...
Counted among the greatest Russian if the greatest of them all, Pushkin was born in 1799 to a poor aristocratic family in Moscow. He is credited as the...
She Loves Me is one among a handful of Esterházy’s novels published in English. I checked my post-box morning and evening for twenty days until finally,...
In Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert wrote in a highly controlled and economical prose style that was, in 1856, something quite new in European fiction....
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In 1969, when historian Niall Ferguson was five years of age, the BBC broadcast an epic series – commissioned...
