Too hot to handle? Why straight male authors need to rediscover writing about sex.
Are straight male writers scared of writing about sex? If you read modern fiction, it’s hard to conclude otherwise. Perhaps…
Category: Fiction
Fiction
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,…
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…
