This month’s reading selections offer a small literary journey through landscapes. In these novels, natural settings play a prominent role and accompany the development of the stories, whether...
If you’re following U.S. foreign policy - whether with a sense of amusement, fear, scorn, or whatever it is you want to feel - you might have noticed allegations in the press that the Pentagon...
The question of the place for human creativity in today’s algorithm-driven world has become unavoidable. In this context, doubts arise that no longer belong solely to the realms of philosophy or...
To close out the film awards season, this month’s reading recommendations include books that also made the leap to the big screen. These works show how the same story can unfold differently in...
This month over at Five Books For I've been looking at crime novels - not detective fiction exactly, and not quite thrillers either, but stories centred on the crime itself and, often, the...
With International Women’s Day approaching, for this month's Book Club, we are turning to literature from a perspective in which women are not a secondary element of the narrative. This list brings...
Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink...
People say that writing a big, fat novel is hard. As a person who is currently writing a big, fat novel - I tend to agree. However, as writer Junot Díaz once observed, the novel can take a lot of...
Contemporary conversations about love often revolve around the search for the right partner, as if emotional fulfillment depended mainly on finding someone who completes us. Far less attention is...
This month’s Five Books For theme is historical detectives and it has a kind of inevitability about it, given that detective fiction is my favourite genre - and there are so many wonderful books to...
