Articles from the author

Set of tales delves into the necessity, the difficulty, of being heard

The subplot of what happens when we are betrayed by our faith asks difficult questions — what if the universe is not meaningless but malevolent? What if there is only torment on the other side?

Ali Smith’s ‘How to Be Both’ comes in two reverse editions, presenting a different perspective in each

The chaos brimming at the heart of Robert Stone’s finest works resurfaces in his latest, set on a New England college campus

Retelling the harsh truth that we need the planet more than the planet needs us

The lingering divisions, distrusts and hatreds in a ‘post-racial’ Louisiana plantation

Humiliation connects us at the deepest level even as it tears us apart

Hanif Kureishi’s protagonist is a genius, but that quality hovers in the background without asserting itself

Unlike Kazuo Ishiguro’s earlier works, his latest novel is structurally flawed and fails to attain the potential the tales by other authors of this genre command

Her ‘Can’t and Won’t’ exhorts readers to reconsider what they think they know about a story, how it operates, what it does

The great sin of author’s fiction is that Robert Langdon has no pulse, no personality

The novel rarely stirs into articulated life. It reads like a set of talking points, archetypes and illustrations, with little of the messy complexities of experience