Ken Kalfus interview
The National, January 2014 Is there life on Mars? While H G Wells, C S Lewis and the cult 1996 B-movie Mars Attacks! might have enjoyably proposed the presence of little green men, sadly we still find […]
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Claire Messud interview
The National, November 2013 “How angry am I? You don’t want to know. Nobody wants to know about that.” The very first line of Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is surely one of the most […]
FATIMA BHUTTO INTERVIEW
The National, December 2013 Fatima Bhutto is staring out of the window of her publisher’s office. The view down the Thames is remarkable. But Benazir Bhutto’s niece – and the daughter of the activist Murtaza […]
Margaret Atwood to Stephen King: Summer reads 2013
The National, June 2013 >> It’s the time of year when filling long lazy days with a book seems both an indulgence and a completely natural state of affairs. Here’s a guide to the stories that should […]
I Exist In Some Way shoots down image of Arab world
The National, May 2013. Feature on major new Arab photography exhibition. >> During the run of Light From the Middle East, the much-heralded photography show at London’s V&A last year, the Syrian photographer Issa Touma was asked […]