The National, December 2015 “Who are you?” asks a mysterious figure as a desert scavenger walks towards golden dunes. “I’m no one,” is the whispered reply. She isn’t no one, of course. She is Rey, […]
The National, November 2015 Protesters were camped outside his Mumbai house. Black ink was smeared on the posters of his films. On Twitter, people called him a traitor, and his Bollywood colleagues wondered whether he […]
The National, November 2015 If there’s one author perfectly suited to a Sharjah International Book Fair panel discussion on the importance of place and culture in novels, it’s Fatima Bhutto. Her 2013 debut novel, The Shadow […]
The National, November 2015 Last month, the poet and Booker Prize-winning novelist Ben Okri was in the South of France when he received a text from a friend telling him to listen to the first […]
The National, October 2015 Last year, award-winning Irish writer Colum McCann was pondering his next move after the incredible praise afforded to his 2013 novel, Transatlantic.There was a novella in the works, and a couple of […]