this is straddles both historical fiction and epic fantasy, and blends the two masterfully. In my past life, I spent a lot of time studying Irish history (through the lens of Gerald of Wales), though a couple of centuries later, and so it was wonderful to return to the world of ...
American Fiction.Clever, funny, and original, this satire/dramedy delivers genuine laughs while also addressing heartbreak. We also experience a mature commentary on race we so rarely see on film. Great performances: Jeffery Wright is dead on, nuanced and believable; Issa Rae is fun; and Sterlin...
The first train to be operated between Coimbatore and Shirdi by a private operator, under the ‘Bharat Gaurav’ scheme of the Indian Railways To showcase India’s cultural heritage and magnificent historical places to people of the country and world through these trains. Opportunity for entrepreneur...
andSammler, while not a political treatise, does make a political argument. To reappraise it today is therefore necessarily to ask, in a way we do not ask of other novels, not just whether it holds up as a work of fiction (which it obviously does), but whether...
When this page needs an update, remember if yousubscribe to our newsletter, all our CFSes get posted there. Untitled Asexual Romance Anthology edited by Victoria Pond Deadline: April 15, 2018 Plus, we are always looking for flash fiction for our website. Seeour general guidelines pagefor det...
Given how much I like Shane’s novels, it’s probably to be expected that I enjoyed getting some insight into the novelist. And as most of his novels are centered around music/people obsessed with music, it’s fitting that this memoir focuses on songs. There are parts of this book that...
Of the things that are not natural, you feel like saying that they are supernatural rather than unnatural, and you own that at its worst the book is worth while in a time when most novels are not worth while. Footnotes “The Right of Way.” A Novel. By Gilbert Parker. Harper & ...
This is particularly true of 1968. * 23 ENTRIES This year samizdat has not been enriched by a single major prose work [1], as it was in past years by such works asSolzhenitsyn‘s novels, the memoirs ofEugenia Ginzburg, collections of stories byShalamov, and novels byLydia Chukovskaya,Vla...
alternate history, cultural modes of production such as commodity fetishism and media, postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism, and historiographic metafiction; furthermore, these features of postmodernism which Rushdie uses in his recent novels indicate his position as a postmodern writer...
By focusing on the two most recently shortlisted novels from Indian and South African writers, I argue that the Prize is mediated by a politics of loss in terms of assessing post-colonial fiction from India and South Africa, where texts must fulfill Western stereotypes of what I term "post-...