Review of 'The Effingers' by Gabriele Tergit – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis
In 1948, the German Jewish writer Gabriele Tergit returned to Berlin. She found the city of her birth and upbringing,…
Category: Fiction
Fiction
Review of "The School of Night" by Karl Ove Knausgård: Does this vast epic live up to its expectations?
Karl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star series might end up being even more expansive than his six-volume autofictional bestseller, My Struggle.…
A friend suggested I trim my overwrought writing, and that simple advice launched my career as a novelist.
In 1984, near the end of my university days, I wrote a letter applying for a job as an advertising…
**Review of *In the Green Heart* by Richard Lloyd Parry – A Neocolonial Jungle Fever** Rewritten version:
Richard Lloyd Parry, a veteran foreign correspondent who documented his experiences of war and political upheaval in his acclaimed 2005…
