The National, June 2017 In Egypt, the revolution wasn’t televised, it was online. And in 2011, Omar Robert Hamilton was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, filming famous footage for The Mosireen Collective he cofounded that […]
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, […]