The National, June 2017 It is always a huge challenge to write a novel about musicians. There are, after all, enough you-couldn’t-make-this-up real-world tales of rapid success, failure and excess to make most fictional stories […]
The National, June 2017 I’m excited – and a little worried, given the timing,” frets American author Mark Powell. With good reason: his latest book is his first through a major publishing house, and has […]
The National, June 2017 It’s a new story in the Lord of the Rings universe, except it’s 100 years old. Beren and Lúthien, first conceived by JRR Tolkein in 1917, is the tale of a […]
The National, May 2017 Sometimes a book arrives at exactly the right time. The day after the suicide bombing in Manchester, I’m talking to Sabrina Mahfouz, the editor of The Things I Would Tell You, […]
The National, May 2017 In the aftermath of ISIL-inspired attacks, there are stories we hear far too often. Of young people growing up in the West becoming increasingly alienated, only finding a sense of their […]