How To Be Human by Paula Cocozza
The National, April 2017 In Gulf folk tales, the fox is a trickster. In the West, the mammal, which roams so many city settings, is nearly always described as wily or sly. But in Paula […]
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Jon McGregor interview
The National, April 2017 It has all the ingredients of a classic crime drama. A 13-year-old girl on holiday disappears on a lonely, wintry English moor. The tight-knit rural community solemnly hunts for her as helicopters […]
Omar El Akkad on debut American War
The National, April 2017 Rising sea levels have swept away the southern coast of the United States. South Carolina is surrounded by a wall to prevent a virus from spreading. It is 2075 and the […]
In Extremis by Tim Parks
The National, April 2017 “I had come to a complete dead end, a position of utter impasse and ugliness.” Thomas, the neurotic 50-something protagonist in the 18th novel from enduring English novelist Tim Parks, is […]
Compass by Mathias Énard
The National, March 2017 Mathias Énard’s first novel to be translated into English was a 500-page monologue by a spy on a train, published as a single sentence. Zone was Énard writ large – poetic, […]