Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Invention of Everything of Else

On Saturday the FT carried a very brief notice by me of Samantha Hunt’s new novel The Invention of Everything Else.
I’m currently working on a piece about Howard Jacobson’s next book for Prospect and an essay for Democratiya that will discuss, among other things, these two novels. And next week’sTime Out will contain my piece [...]

The Hakawati

In the modern Arab novel, western fictional techniques often rub up against allegorical forms derived from the oral traditions of the Middle East. The marriage of fabulism and realism is not always a happy one but in Lebanese author Rabih Alameddine’s new novel the fusion of these two modes is dazzling.
Me on Rabih Alameddine’s new [...]